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In this article I will discuss the keys to understanding what a financial budget and how to make it so that is useful for the entrepreneur and as a tool in our business plan to present to an investor.

A pre-requisite of the budget (or plan) financial, is to be clear almost all of our other plans, such as marketing, sales, operational, and so on. This is because, unlike other plans, the financial plan does not provide new information but simply summarizes numerically everything before we said we would be doing. For example, should be consistent with:

The investments we said we would do: its costs and returns. This is usually associated with investments in advertising.

Office costs, capital goods (machinery) and labor (salaries, social charges, SAC, contributions, etc).
The cost of capital. Read the rest of this entry »

The most popular is the monthly budget. This is a budget where you decide how much money you spend on different categories within a month. A daily budget works the same way, but you can really concentrate on your everyday shopping.

Creating a daily budget can make a lot more effective, as it will be a daily reminder for you to keep up with their personal budget goals. It takes some work but the savings you can see is truly amazing. This advice will help you budget your daily financial planning.

1. Track your expenses. The first step in creating a daily budget of success is to keep track of your expenses. You need to keep your receipts and write down good money compared to how much you spend per day.

This includes small purchases such as a drink to big purchases like new furniture. Includes cash, checks, and credit card purchases. What they do not include invoices, or overhead. These should be followed with a monthly budget.

We are creating a daily budget here, and that means we’re losing sight of your variable expenses, or costs change all the time. Keeping track of all this can be a very daunting task, but necessary. Before creating your daily budget, you have to see how much money you are spending so you can make reasonable demands for himself. Read the rest of this entry »

The sales budget is the basis for the development of comprehensive budget. The responsibility for development and production as well as its subsequent implementation and explanation of the deviations of actual results against budgeted is in charge of the Commercial Management.

This budget is basically composed of the following three elements:
a) units sold (the result of the sales forecast by the commercial area, and classified according to the specific needs of each company by product and product family, customer type, by geography, sales in local market and export markets, by salesperson or sales team, etc.).
b) Unit price (which implies the definition of the pricing policy, its eventual adjustment over time, the policies of discounts and bonuses on sales, special policies for market differentials, etc.).
c) Total sales resulting from multiplying the units (a) by the unit price (b).

As can be seen forming is deceptively simple, but just their explosion of detail is possible to observe and analyze in depth the mix of business / products of the company, which is essential for analyzing the economic performance of the company and is made through the creation of the Matrix Product Positioning / Business that can be studied in the highlighted link. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve decided to establish your business online, but the reality is that the budget for it is very small … so … How to start?

You can start looking for free domains. Because there are already many companies that are selling domain names, the market is quite competitive.

But there are few places that you register a domain free no charge. However, there is some kind of payment. For example, you might be set free but register themselves as managers of your domain, and only after you transferred the property to pay some kind of spending.

If you set up and launch a website, but do not want to pay $ 9 to $ 40 per month, which is the usual cost of lodging, sites can choose to stay free.

The disadvantage is that you end up making your site advertising products for which you will not earn any commission, as the company will charge you have stayed.

It is recommended to pay for hosting. The best option is not in the monthly fee, but annual or biannual payment, as costs decline significantly, thereby making sure the existence and permanence of your online business by the time you signed up.

The performance of advertising, in any business, not an expense (as some accountants want to see), is actually an investment, but those new businesses, which need to be made available to achieve the first sales. Read the rest of this entry »

The budget of a company is the main tool for directing the operation of a business. With him are projected and estimated income and expenditure of the company’s long and short term. And although the budget of the business must be prepared by a specialist in the field, this task involved members of the business areas responsible for purchasing and inventory, sales and collections. Here are the five steps and important things to remember to make good budget:

Step 1. The management of the company performing scheduling budget meetings to monitor the expected goals of sales and collections of the company. Also to track your purchasing and procurement policy.

Step 2. The administrative and financial managers of the company, presented a brief summary of the level of achievement of goals in the period. Following an analysis of equipment of different factors that influence the achievement of goals during the period being reviewed, it performs an update goals for the next budget period.

Step 3. The company makes its Financial Budget , which is to set the cost estimates of the company, including: Budget revenue (raw total expenses), Budget expenditures (to determine the liquid or net) Net cash (difference between entry and exit).

Step 4. The company prepares its Operating Budget for the next cycle with a list of budget items as complete as possible, for example budgets: Production (includes direct and indirect costs) Requirement of materials (raw materials, supplies, fuel) Paying Employees; manufacturing expenses, selling expenses (training, payment of commissions to salespeople, advertising) Administrative expenses, among other possible items.

Step 5. In a good budget renewing the production targets and projected income and expenditure different areas of the company. For example, each account manager leaves the field with new goals and sales strategies. Likewise, production and administrative departments update their compliance goals-in quantity and time-of purchase orders and delivery dates to customers. The company’s budget is designed by the business finance team, reviewed and approved by general manager or owner of the company. Remember, you as a business owner or manager does not control all factors affecting market your business profits, but it has in its hands the ability to handle important factors in favor of the operation of your business. Making a good budget for your business is one of them.

Probably find it helpful to keep track of where money is being spent now. Check your last bank moves to get an idea of your monthly expenses and your monthly income. Then write down every penny you spend for the next few days to get an idea where your money goes.

The expenses of each who will vary depending on many factors including the country in which you live. Housing costs are higher in urban areas for example. The best way to make a budget can be the solution 60%. The idea behind this is that the fixed costs of taxes, rent, food, clothing, and the rest, leaving 60% of salary (before taxes). The remaining 10% to 10% is saved for retirement savings, emergency savings, debt payment and money for fun and entertainment.

Recent graduates, however, find that fixed costs are more than 60% of their total salary. And if the job does not have health insurance is also an extra expense.

How to make a budget
Say has done again and again the budget and the numbers do not add up. Continues to spend more than you earn. Then it’s time to make radical changes before more debt. Here are some ideas:
Rent: Chances are that this is the biggest expense of fixed costs, so any changes should be noted here much in the rest of the budget. As options are looking for someone to share the rent, rent a room in the house of a relative or return to live with parents (at least for a while). Read the rest of this entry »

The guys are WeblogWire blogging on your site every day to create a startup in a week with $ 500. Many of the steps used to remind me the technique I use to start Hypertext with far less money and without a penny of investment from anywhere. The secret is not to make money, and actually start a business with a super-reduced budget involves no more effort. Everything that follows assumes that you have a business plan done and know exactly what you want with your business. The real investment of a startup or an enterprise is time and effort. Ie: not going to spend almost no money but be prepared to work (at least the first 6 months) until 3 am every day including weekends.

Also be prepared to take hours (or days) of uncertainty, not knowing if you’re really right or not, one of the biggest challenges is getting money, but to convince yourself you’re doing something good even though most people tell you otherwise. That said, here are some tips for those who want to start a venture but have almost no money: *Take advantage of all the tools you have available now: your computer, your knowledge, your internet connection and your apartment, room or study with your parents. * Take advantage of all the knowledge you have and apply them to your new company and at least initially do everything you can for yourself, the same goes for your partner if you have them. This reduces to a minimum and staff spend less on salaries. * Apple started in the garage of Steve Jobs’ parents, do not feel ashamed to start in your own room. * Do not rent offices. Do not rent offices.

Do not rent offices. I can not repeat this ad nauseum and not fail to hear people saying you need one. This is because the status quo says you have to have an office to have a business. It is not true. When you really need your own office you know. Meanwhile you will save the biggest expense you may have your company. * Take advantage of open source, but the two sides: it uses all free tools you can but try to send your contributions. * Do not waste time on small things, throw it soon as possible, correcting as you go. * Listen to others, but not too much: when you do new things many do not understand and therefore disapprove. It’s good to listen to advice from outside but do not take as a rule to follow.

With this you can be out in a week with almost no money but as I said before, be prepared to spend a long time: up early, sleep late and forget your social life. Updated: Inti said: “It takes something very important that Eduardo does not name and it is essential, I would place first or second place: Creativity. The more creative you are, the easier it is for your company solve the first problems that presents itself while that creativity will pay your first paycheck. “And he is absolutely right, but for the times we live in, I believe to be creative for a company is not a feature but a requirement.

When you have the capital to make a significant investment, the idea of ​​buying a property that probably comes to mind. Letting out a property can be a good source of capital growth, but also requires extensive work by the owner. If you intend to buy a property that is important to know some of the pitfalls on the road and how to avoid them.

The first thing to know is what you are buying the property. It could be their revenue goals, your earnings every month from tenants, or growth of capital, which is to generate profits through greater equity in the second property as the value increases over time. This choice should influence the type of property purchase and the location of the property.

Maintaining a property is a costly process. As a guide, should be designed to achieve a gross income of at least one hundred thirty-five percent of the mortgage payments only ownership interest. This will help cover costs nothing go wrong with the property.

There are three major differences with buy to let mortgages you should know. First is to rent potential. The decision on whether to offer a mortgage is often based on the rent you earn income as well. In some cases your income may not be considered. Second, is the interest rate. Buy to let mortgages with a slightly higher interest rate. Finally, it is the largest reservoir. The deposit is usually a minimum of twenty to twenty five percent of the value of the property. Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever the time comes when we decided to become independent. Emancipation is a step in personal development, since everyone needs sooner or later, their own space.

In Spain, unlike other countries in Northern Europe or America, has always clearly dominated the culture of the purchase of home ownership versus renting. But …

Is it always better to buy a home? When am I better off renting?
It is clear that fundamentally, the act of buying or renting housing will depend on costs. And within them, differentiate early to make the purchase or lease, and the total given the long time horizon.

Initial costs
From the point of view of the initial costs , the rent is more affordable. There are usually only costs as a liability insurance or bond, compared to the high initial costs involved in purchasing: notary, registration, VAT, taxation, etc.. For this reason, the rent is a good choice for easy access to a first home at the time of emancipation.

Total long-term costs
As for long-term total costs , can become one of the factors by which we decide on a more appropriate rental or purchase. We add up the mortgage payments with their initial costs and other expenses and compare them with the cost of rent for life. But this is not the key factor.

The level of interest rates
In the situation in Spain has been historically, the purchase was more profitable than renting, because even though the purchase involves more costs (higher monthly fee, the homeowners, taxes, maintenance …), the high rates of growth of house prices made ​​the brick property was the best investment. Thus, the key to deciding whether to rent or buy a home, would understand the performance of existing investment opportunities and the cost of borrowing, ie the level of interest rates. Read the rest of this entry »

Money is a very important need in life. In most cases you can negotiate or bargain to reduce prices and get a certain percentage. In fact, the price reduction occurs everywhere, either to attract or make settlements, but it happens.

Debt negotiation is the process by which they negotiate your debts with your creditors. Negotiation can take it out yourself or you can hire a specialized company to do the negotiating for you. There are financial companies that are responsible for negotiating with creditors to reduce debt, resulting eliminate late payment fees, reduce interest, etc..

Why can a creditor for a debt reduction?
The creditors seek to recover as much money as possible from their debtors. Since it is costly for creditors to get the outstanding payments are usually willing to renegotiate debt so that ensure at least an amount.

Also, when you may declare bankruptcy, your creditors know that if you do not have the opportunity to recover their money, so in most cases are willing to negotiate.