Showing posts with label Business Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business Environment. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 October 2004

Commission Based Salaries


What is Commission Based Salary


Commission based salary is alternative of fixed salary. in commission based salary the individual is offered a certain percentage of a target achieved. This target is normally a revenue. There are two kind of commission based salary one is total commission based salary and other is minimum salary with a percentage of target achieved.


Types of Commission Based Salary


Total Commission based Salary


Under this structure the individual is offered no fix salary and he get a certain percentage of revenue earned by him. for example an employee may be hired at 1% of sales target achieved and if he makes a sales of 100,000 then he is entitle to receive an amount of 1000.


Fixed Salary Plus Commission


Under this structure he is guaranteed with a minimum wage and plus a commission of a target achieved. normally the commission start after a certain level of basic performance. for example the individual is given 1000 for sales upto 100,000 and and sales target achieved above 100,000 will give him a chance to earn 1% of sales.






Thursday, 16 September 2004

Reasons for Over Trading

Overtrading
Over trading is a situation where there is Sharpe increase in sales

Reasons for over trading
The overtrading may represent the real growth in business which is accordingly reflected in the sales increase in revenue.The overtrading may result due to flexible or more generous credit policy or allowing higher discount to the customer.

Indications of Over trading

The following are common indication of over trading
  • Sharpe increase in receivables
  • Sharp increase in stock levels
  • Share increase in Sales/Revenue
Risks of Overtrading

  • Enough funds not available to support operations
  • Over utilization of fixed assets
  • Bad debts
  • Over reliance on short tem financing
  • Sufficient funds stuck up in high level of stock

Wednesday, 15 September 2004

Important Factor of E-Commerce Website

Important Factor of E-Commerce Website

The following are important factor of website.

  1. Well integrated with support function and system
  2. Quick response and processing of transactions
  3. The transaction completion message or report
  4. User friendly
  5. Interaction with customer options
  6. Stage of completion of transaction under process
  7. Segment of frequqtly asked question for most common question asked
  8. Details of products and services offered
  9. Information about the delivery charges and timing
  10. Automatic invoice generation options
  11. well integrated security system
  12. A professional team for maintenance and updation
  13. uninterrupted service

Characteristic of Service industry

   Characteristic of Service industry

1. The first important characteristic is that a service is untouchable.

2. The other important aspect of service and service provider has a very close relationship. The service provider is more important that service itself.

3. The service is a continuance process and long term relationship. for example you are using an internet connection, only satisfied customer can be retained.

4. There is no title transfer in the services. you sell your skill or a virtual product for a agreed period of time .

5. The services and time has important relationship. The service diminish with the passage of time. you can not claim that i was sleeping in the cinema house so return me the ticket price back . i did not watch the movies.
Advantages of Debt Factoring
The debt factoring is technique where collection for credit sales is the responsibility of independent third party against an agreed fees. The credit sales and collection record is maintained by  the that party. The party is responsible to collect debt and pay it back to the company.
The factoring company immediately pay some portion to the company like seventy to eighty percent and the remaining portion is paid when the debt is fully recovered and the fee is is deducted from the remaining portion. The following are advantages of debt factoring.
Cash are available :- The cash available as soon as the sales invoices are issued to debt factoring company.
Cost of Sales ledger are saved :- The sales ledger are maintained by the debt factoring company. therefore the cost is reduced .
Cost of collection is saved :- The other important cost is saved of the cost of chasing the customer. some time in case of small amount of credit the cost of collection exceed the actually amount collected from some customer.
Disadvantages of Factoring
  1. Factoring company charges high fee sometime more than 5% of invoice values
  2. Aggressively chase customer may loss customer
  3. Customer relationship and goodwill at stake



Advantages of commission based Salary

Advantages of Commission Based Salary
Normally under this structure a very little fixed salary is offered with a commission on sales made by the sales representative. The totally new entity sometime offer only commission and no fixed salary is attached. The main advantages of commission based salary are as under.

  1. High self motivated sales staff
  2. High earning opportunity for the sales staff
  3. High sales volume for the organization
  4. High sales volume improve entity cash flows
  5. High sales volume reduces the unit fixed cost

Sunday, 15 September 2002

Advantages of Vertical Integration

Advantages of Vertical Integration

There are basically two type of vertical integration
  1. Backward vertical integration
  2. Forward Vertical integration

Backward Vertical integration  

In backward vertical integration you buy your support function or raw material  . Typically example a car restaurant chain established the poultry farm.