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Learn Those Formulas

Resource book of information on financial formulas cash-flow analysis.  Read more

Audit Survival Guide

Available source of financial guides for tax audit preparation.  Read more

Selling by Voice Mail

Source of information on using the telephone more effectively advice on using voice mail.  Read more

Producer Prices Fall in June

July 16, 2004 -- The prices paid to producers for finished goods fell 0.3 percent in June, the Department of Labor said in a report on Th...  Read more

Refinancing

Refinancing is the refunding or restructuring of debt with new debt, equity, or a combination of these. Businesses refinance their debts when interest rat...  Read more

Economy Gets Better Even as it Slows

July 7, 2004 -- Reports of the economy's well-being may occasionally seem somewhat premature. But then, so do reports of its ill-health.<...  Read more

Apple's Tablet Computer and The Worst PR Writing

A crackdown on behavioral targeting? A high tech form of advertising where Web users are shown advertisements based on what sites they've visited i...  Read more

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Capital Resources

A listing of books and Web sites that can help you find financing. Topics include private investors, bank loans, debt, economic-development programs, factori...  Read more

Credit Card Financing

Related Terms: Banks and Banking ; Read more

Capital Structure

Related Terms: Debt Financing ; Read more

Calculating The Market's Future

To receive the weekend forecasts of stock-market advisory services, a subscriber usually has to wait for Monday morning's mail, which is unreliable, or ph...  Read more

Dividends

Related Terms: Stocks Dividends and stock repurchases are the tw...  Read more

In this Issue

How I stopped worrying and learned to love meetings (after reading our cover story).  Read more

Business-to-Business Marketing

Commercial transactions between businesses are covered more generally in this volume in the article called Business-to-Business . Here the intenti...  Read more

Capital Gain/Loss

A capital gain or loss results from the sale, trade, or exchange of a capital asset. Simply stated, when the resulting transaction nets an amount lower th...  Read more

Retail Sales Fall Sharply

July 15, 2004 -- Fewer Americans were in the market for a new car, while spending at the gas pump dipped in June, leading to a sharper-th...  Read more

How to Stay Awake at Meetings

A resource book on how to hold successful meetings  Read more

Collateral

Related Terms: Assets ; Read more

Food For Thought: An Inventor's Media Diet

I believe that in order to maintain intellectual integrity, you cannot take in enough input. The difficulty arises when you realize that even relevant inp...  Read more

Text Messages That Teach

Princeton senior Breanden Beneschott got good at tutoring his sister over SMS, so he started a text-message test-prep subscription service.  Read more

Board of Directors

Related Terms: Sarbanes-Oxley A corporation is a...  Read more

Private Placement of Securities

Related Terms: Initial Public Offerings...  Read more

Managing Up

Relationships were once something we had; now they're something we work at. And as happens with all areas subject to improvement, a canon of self-help lit...  Read more

Interest Rates

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Navigating the IPO Market

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview of some articles in the June issue and background on the writers.  Read more

Sales Management: 'Where'd We Go Wrong?'

Four experts offer advice to a company that tried to double its sales with a new sales force and failed.  Read more

Managing Your Stock Portfolio

With today's software it's not hard to become your own financial adviser.  Read more

The Passing Of The Broker's Boardroom

With the arrival of interactive computers and radios that sound alarms and talk back, an office-bound investor no longer is at the mercy of a broker's teleph...  Read more

Protect Your Collectibles

Most homeowner's insurance policies contain snares for the unwary. But coverage of any collection can be customized.  Read more

Capital

Capital is the money or wealth needed to produce goods and services. In the most basic terms, it is money. All businesses must have capital in order to pu...  Read more

Return on Investment (ROI)

Related Terms: Financial Ratios Return on in...  Read more

CEOs Expect to Add Workers

June 3, 2004 -- With economic conditions continuing to strengthen, a growing number of chief executives plan on hiring workers by the end...  Read more

Would You Buy Stock From This Man?

Louis Rukeyser is the host of public television's "Wall Street Week." Every Friday night some 10 million would-be investors sit faithfully in front of the...  Read more

Wired For Profit

A moment of sympathy, please, for the small investor. He is always the last to know what's going on -- and the least likely to profit from it. Consi...  Read more

The Secrets of Bootstrapping

18 ways to grow or survive by substituting imagination, know-how, or effort for capital.  Read more

The Secret World of IPOs

A senior Inc. writer takes you through the uncharted territory of small-company public offerings.  Read more

A Plan For All Seasons

While most of the leasing industry was flattened by recession, sound thinking and deft maneuvers catapulted BRAE Corp. to the top of the INC. 100  Read more

Mr. Morningstar Stocks Up

What Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto thinks about money and investing after 17 years of the company-building life.  Read more

Venture Capital: Weeding Out The Weak

Back in the 1950s, Richard J. Riordan began investing in what he considered high-risk ventures. He put his money (80% of it borrowed, a stock market margi...  Read more

Makeover

Analysis of entrepreneurial couple's finances and advice from an investment adviser; how to find a financial planner.  Read more

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