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Stocks such as Honda’s and Mazda’s have been rising, probably because global demand remains solid and woes are exchange-rate linked

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This tool explains employee wages, benefits and expenses, this tool is used to focus overall budgeting. Continue to read more…

The explanation provided in the Business Week (BW) article was that most of these borrowers put down small or zero down payments so they don’t have much to lose especially if prices had fallen since they made their purchase. People were current on their payments on their cards because people need credit cards for everyday […]

An entrepreneur who decides to undertake a new business venture assumes a certain degree of risk. When that venture includes creating a new product, the risk is even higher and the task of selling that innovative product becomes an exercise in education, significantly lengthening the sales cycle. Any company needs to validate its offering to […]

This paper presents and then tests a political economy model to analyze the observed positive relationship between income inequality and inflation. The model’s key features are unequal access to both inflation-hedging opportunities and the political process. The model predicts that inequality and ‘elite bias’ in the political system interact to create incentives for inflation. The […]

This paper utilizes establishment-level data to examine the relationship of work organization and wages in manufacturing. This is motivated by the substantial spread of new work systems (teams, quality programs, and the like) and the important question of whether these innovative work systems have influenced wage determination. The paper utilizes a nationally representative data set […]

The purpose of the Vacation policy is to clearly define who accrues vacation time, when vacations can be taken, how vacation time/pay is calculated with regard to layoffs/resignations, military leave, death, discharge, resignation, and holidays. Continue to read more…

To break free from generally accepted practices and systems takes belief and courage. But the CFO should be encouraged by the numbers of organizations that are making these changes. Many are getting the message about information overload and fewer are being seduced by all embracing panaceas and IT systems. They will also find a change […]

Time tracking is the act of tracing out the time spent on each activity in a particular period of time. With so much pressure on time these days, time tracking and management has become absolutely necessary. Though time tracking was initially just a method for keeping track of the way employees use their time, today […]

Advances in technology have made it possible to bring sales force productivity to new heights. Learn about the latest exciting innovations in CRM and SFA software and how they can help take your sales force to the next level. This issue of the Sales Performance Journal offers valuable information on advances in CRM and […]