Financial Safety Advice

A start-up is usually more slowly than expected. Revenues tend to lag while expenses are always greater than previously estimated. Do your calculations with a large room to spare you any unpleasant surprises.

A growing company can have a great hunger for liquidity to finance growth. WalMart was for years a growing company with negative cash flows (to finance growth). Do not let you leave without liquidity growth by surprise. No matter how well you can not go running out of cash on hand.

If you need external funding to provide capital, looking for professional investors and investment funds. Far better to have outside investors professional individuals.

Hire an auditor and audit your company every year. No matter how small your business, the discipline of the annual audit discipline throughout the accounting team.

There is nothing wrong with having the money earned in the company box. Microsoft spent decades accumulating unpaid dividends and liquidity for expansion. The money in the box gives you capacity for growth.

Controls the time limit for payment of your customers and do not hesitate to call the deadline as many times as necessary. Many companies pay the most persistent first.

Customers are paying. If someone uses your services and does not pay, not a client, is a burden to your business. Get rid of the ballast as soon as possible. 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 →