Financial Safety Advice

Need a bid or performance bond for a construction project? The first question is, “Let’s take a look at the fiscal year-end financial statements.” Then the insurer finds something wrong with it and boom! You’re dead!

What’s going on here? It is true that the surety only make money when they issue bonds? So why are they so reluctant? Contractors must keep in mind that bonding companies walk a fine line between profit and loss.

Contractors must keep in mind that bonding companies walk a fine line between profit and loss.

Easy obvious piece subscription information to review is the year-end financial statements. This document provides a vision of the company’s currency position. This shows the extent to which the administration has failed to attract sufficient income. Show lending practices of the past and indicates the quality of the clientele of the company. It is easy to calculate, easy access, an essential component of subscription – but it is the key to getting bonded? Read the rest of this entry →

Business cycles are relatively short wave growth and decay that affect the economy. This means that the trend of long-term growth of developed economies is not a smooth linear line. This trend of growth is accelerating moments and moments of slowdown in growth.These movements are called cycles and all economies go through these cycles. The danger faced by the investor at this stage is to invest in stocks at a time when the cycle is at its maximum and have the need to sell your investment when the cycle is at its floor, with the loss that this entails. To avoid this situation, as investors will have to learn to try to detect when they start and when they complete the cycle. Easy task, but that is the main objective of the economy.

But problems do not end here. As companies in their quest for growth through innovation and increased productivity are able to grow, but the process left in the way companies less innovative, less competitive, with products and services more expensive and of lowerquality that the winning company. The company, the winner, out of the market to the company losing. This process has the name of the process of creative destruction, the new company creates a new process or system and destroys another company. As investors, we will not only be analyzed when there are positive economic cycles, but also in this series the winners of this process of creative destruction.

The same can be applied to real estate investment. First, the cycles have much influence on the real estate cycle. That is, when the economic cycle is positive, the real estate cycle is very positive and vice versa. Therefore, it is vitally important to predict the cycles when it comes to predicting the real estate cycles. Second, the process of creative destruction also occurs in real estate investment. The most innovative and creative investors move to more rustic investors. Let’s see an example to better understand this point. Five years ago began construction in Buenos Aires buildings with what was called amenities, this meant buildings Read the rest of this entry →

Today, companies that need immediate liquidity from assets that have a broad portfolio of clients and in turn do not want to incur a number of commercial or administrative costs, and may involve factoring.

This is a set of services through which a company gives commercial invoices to a credit institution or financial institutions, so that the latter provides some or all of the following services:

*Administrative tasks related to customers who holds the entity and manage the collection of invoices.

*Advance payment of invoices and transferred to provide a guarantee in the event of insolvency of a customer.

Obviously the main reason why companies turn to factoring to use this service is that of power, and if needed, you receive advances of money they have to receive on account of the customer invoices. Also another advantage, if they are hired is because insolvencies occurring in the collection are borne by the factoring company.