finance
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The Concept of Value
I have a friend who works as an electrician. Once he was called to fix a switch that wasn’t working. He looked at it, and in less than five minutes he fixed it. After that, he charged him for his services. His customer pointed how come he had to pay that much for a job…
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Margin of Safety
One of the difficulties when starting a business is predicting the volume of sales and costs in the future. You don’t need to be a genius to guess that it’s impossible to know exactly what is going to happen, either if your product will be a complete success or that a competitor will launch another…
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Revenues and Costs, Some Aspects
I’ve been living abroad for a while, as many people are doing these days. A common topic of discussion among expats is the salary you can earn in a certain country. It is funny to see people who move to countries like the United Kingdom, the Netherlands or Germany to find not only opportunities but…
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Understanding bad expenses and bad debt
Thanks to the earnings of our company, we may have the desire to buy something that makes us feel good. Maybe a new car or a house, because our family is growing, or that fancy mobile phone that takes high quality pictures and go on holidays to the most remote location on Earth. Sometimes, when…