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How to estimate Business profits?

        World of Finance by M.Vijaya Sai Every Business entrepreneur would like to estimate his/her business profits from time to time and work hard to achieve those targets. Here we will learn to use a powerful tool that estimates Business profits. How a business's profits change as the sales volumes change as well as break even points. Although the  purpose of every business may be different but the success of the business is measured in terms of Profitability. The business analyst must  accesses:                            "What is the Break even point?"                              "What should be the Sales turnover for the period?"                            "How to cut down on costs and increase profitability?" The   break-even point  (BEP) is the point at which cost or expenses and revenue are equal: there is no net loss or gain , and one has " broken even ." Using this tool  one can estimate margin of safety and find what sh

Transfer Pricing

        World of Finance by M.Vijaya Sai Introduction: When Investment Centers have been established, these would be considered as autonomous units. They would be free to purchase their raw materials direct from the market or from their own departments. In case of the latter, there are many advantages like (i) it would be cheaper to buy from own departments, (ii) there would be more quality assurance and reliability. Also, it would be beneficial to the selling department because (i) there would no packing and external transportation costs, and (ii) there would be no bad debt. Why Transfer Pricing? Chief Executive of a big company cannot monitor and control operations of each and every sub-unit. So the sub-units are turned into Investment Centers and necessary authority is delegated to their managers.But in a decentralization, there are difficulties in evaluating the performance of the managers. Further, there is a problem of coordination. So a method is needed to asce