Posted on 05 April 2012. Tags: debt, Debt-to-GDP ratio, GDP, Greece, Gross domestic product, Indonesia, Spain, United States
When European countries one after the other because of Gutenberg entangled debts, even ratio loan exceeded the gross domestic product (GDP), Indonesia was able to enjoy a fairly high economic growth in the range of 6.5%.
Everyone knows, the European debt crisis and debt crisis caused by United States in managing their debts so that portion of a loan skyrocket and surpassed the volume of its GDP.
Current U.S. debt ratio to GDP ranged from 105%. While Greece’s debt to GDP ratio, which is the cause of the crisis in Europe, ranging from 160%. A number of countries of the European region (Euro zone), among them Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, have a ratio of debt to GDP ranged from 80% to 100%. That’s what led to the US and Europe both now being struggling with Affairs of the decrease in debt portion., a portion of the debt is approaching maturity and must be paid the value of principal and interest rates are at once. When ability to pay back a loan that is sourced from the GDP turns out to be lower than the amount of debt maturities, then those countries requiring bailouts (bailout) to meet its obligations.
With the bailout, actually Tennessee countries and even add new debt. In other words, the principle of hole close the hole, pay the debt with new debt, being pragmatic recipes made by the u.s. and European countries, particularly Greece. In the u.s., his Government was forced to issue bonds and purchased by its central banks (The Fed) and China. Nearly a third of the total U.S. debentures held by China, in addition to The Fed.
What about Indonesia? This country, with the ratio of debt to GDP ranged from 26%, including a safe country to the possibility of the threat of crisis the US and Europe. It certainly would be a serious matter if the Government still have a large amount of foreign currency debt as is currently happening appreciation of currency (US dollars) significantly.
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Posted on 25 February 2012. Tags: Budget, Business Info, Company, Function (mathematics), Goal, Management, Planning, Surveillance
Budget Function:
The role of the budget on an enterprise is a great tool to assist management in planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and also work as a guide in the conduct of the company for the intended purpose.
a. Planning Function
Planning is one of the management function and this function is one of the functions of management and functioning of this is the basis of the implementation of other management functions.
- Winardi gives the notion of planning are as follows:
“Planning actions include selecting and connecting facts and create and use assumptions about the future in terms of visualization as well as formulating the proposed activities as deemed necessary to achieve desired basil”.
From the above quote before it was concluded that the company commenced operation, the leader of the company should first define what activities will be implemented in the future and the results to be achieved from these activities, as well as how to execute it. The existence of such plans, then the activity will be able to do the job properly.
b. the Surveillance Function
The budget is one way of conducting surveillance within the company. Supervision is the efforts taken in order for the plan which has been drawn up can be achieved. Thus the supervision is to evaluate the achievements of the work and the corrective actions if necessary. Aspects of oversight namely by comparing between the budgeted, with accomplishments are to be found the efficiency or whether the managers of the executor has worked well in managing the company. The purpose of supervision it is not looking for mistakes, but prevented and imperturbable errors. It often happens that the supervision function of the proposition that debugging subjected to others or as a punishment for a tool dropped the mistakes made on purpose to guarantee the establishment of supervision that the goals and plans of the company.
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Budget, Business Info, Company, Economic, Florida, Mike Haridopolos, National Budget, Plan
The coordination function of the alignment of action demanding work of any individual or the inside of the company to achieve a goal. Thus it can be said that the
to create the coordination required good planning, which can show the harmony of the plan between one part with another part. The budget serves as a planning should be able to adjust the plans made for the various sections in the company, so plan an activity that one would be in harmony with the others. For that the budget can be used as a tool for coordination that exists in all parts of the company, because of all the interrelated activities between one part with another part is set up properly.
- Budgets As Working Guidelines
A budget is a plan of work drawn up systematically and expressed in monetary units. Often the preparation of the budget on the basis of past experience and the appraiser estimates in the future, then this can be employment guidelines for each section within the company to run its activities.
The main goal of most of the budget is for outside oversight, namely to limit the overall resources available to an agency and to
prevent spending-spending for things or activities that are not justified by law.
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Posted on 28 November 2011. Tags: Business Info, employment, Human Resources, Job satisfaction, Management, Organization, PRWEB, Work
Effectiveness Measurement of Work:
According to Richard and M. Steers (1980:192) includes the element of adaptability / work performance and job satisfaction:
1) Ability to adjust
Human ability is limited in the sense of seeing things, so the limitations it causes a man can not attain the fulfillment of their needs without going through cooperation with others. This is according to the opinion of Ricard M. Steers which states that the key to organizational success is the cooperation in achieving goals. Any organization that goes in the organization is required to be able to adjust to the people who work in it as well as with the work in the organization. If the ability to adjust to it can run the organization’s goals can be achieved.
2) Performance of work
Work performance is a result of someone and achieved in executing the tasks assigned to him based on skill, experience, sincerity and time (Hasibuan, 2001:94). From the opinion it could be concluded
that with the skill, experience, sincerity time owned by the employee given the task can be carried out in accordance with the responsibilities assigned to him.
3. Job satisfaction.
Level of pleasure that one feels on the role or job within the organization. The level of individual satisfaction that they are rewarded in kind, from various aspects of the work situation and the organization to which they belong.
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Posted on 24 November 2011. Tags: Business Info, Change management, Consulting, Electronic business, Human Resources, Management, Organization, Organizational structure
Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Work
There are four factors that influence the effectiveness of the work, as proposed by Richard M. Steers (1980:9), namely:
1. Characteristics of Organizations
Characteristics of the organization consists of organizational structures and technology that can affect certain aspects of the effectiveness of a variety of ways. The definition of the structure is a relatively precise nature, such as encountered in the organization, both in terms of human resources organizational structure includes how to prepare the people in completing the work, while the technology in question is the mechanism of an organization transform raw inputs into outputs.
2. Environmental Characteristics
Outside environment and the environment have also been declared in effect on the effectiveness, success of the relationship of environmental organizations seem very dependent on the level of predictability is a key variable environmental conditions, accuracy of perception of environmental conditions, levels of organization rationalism. All three of these factors affect the accuracy of the response organization to environmental changes.
3. Characteristics of Workers
In fact the members of the organization is the most important influence factor for behavior that in the long term they will facilitate or hinder the achievement of organizational goals. Worker is a resource that is directly related to the management of all available resources within the organization, therefore the behavior of workers is very influential to the achievement of organizational goals.
Workers is the main capital in the organization that will greatly affect the effectiveness, because although the technology used is a sophisticated technology and supported by the presence of good structure, but without the workers then it is useless.
4. Characteristics of Policy and Management Practice
With the increasing complexity of technology and its development environment, the role of management in coordinating people and processes for organizational success increasingly difficult.
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Posted on 20 November 2011. Tags: Budget, Business Info, Cost, Economic, Government spending, Telecommunications, User fee, World Bank
Type of Budget:
1. Budget Ceiling
This type of budget used for surveillance purposes is called the Budget Ceiling. Articles of this type directly supervise an agency with a way of determining the spending limits through the use regulations / administration, or indirectly by way of limiting earnings agencies on known sources and quantities are limited.
2. A Line-Item Budget
This type classifies expenditures by type, are used to monitor the types of expenditure and also the total
3. Performance and Program Budgets
This type is useful for specifying the activities or programs under which funds are used, and thereby assist in its evaluation. By way of separating expenditures by function (such as health or public safety) or by type of expenditure (such as personnel and equipment) or based on sources of income such as property taxes or user fees (user fees), the administrators and lawmakers can get proper reports on financial transactions, to maintain good efficiency to the inside or outside supervision.
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Posted on 16 November 2011. Tags: Accounting, Budget, Business Info, Human Resources, Income, money, Public relations, Saving
The budget is a systematic plan of work prepared and expressed in monetary units. Normally budgeting based on past experience and appraiser-estimated in the future, then this can be a work guidelines for each section within the company to run its activities.
The main purpose of the budget is for external monitoring, which is to limit the overall resources available to an agency and to prevent expenditures for things or activities that are not justified by law.
Benefits Budget:
According to Marconi and Siegel (1983) in Hehanusa (2003, p.406-407) the benefits of the budget are:
1. The budget is the result of the planning process, it means that the budget represents an agreement negotiated between the dominant participants in an organization on the purpose of activities in the future.
2. The budget is an illustration of the priority allocation of resources because it can act as a blueprint for corporate activity.
3. The budget is an internal communication tool that connects the department (division) is one with a department (division) others in the organization as well as with top management.
4. The budget provides information about the actual activities compared to the standards set.
5. Budget as a tool of control that leads management to determine the organization’s strong and weak, this will be directing the management to determine corrective actions to be taken.
6. Budget to influence and motivate managers and employees to work with a consistent, effective and efficient in conditions of fitness for purpose of corporate goals with employee goals.
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Posted on 12 November 2011. Tags: Budget, Business Info, Company, Corrective action, Marketing plan, Monitoring, Percentage, Surveillance
The budget is one way to conduct surveillance within the company. Supervision is the efforts taken to sebelurnnya plan that has been achieved. Thus, surveillance is to evaluate the work performance and corrective actions if necessary. Aspects of supervision is to compare the performance with budgeted, whether efficiencies can be found or whether the executive managers have worked well in managing the company. Monitoring purposes it is not to find fault but prevention and errors. It often happens that the oversight function that is mischaracterized find fault with others or as a means of punishment for a mistake made ??in terms of objective oversight to ensure the achievement of the objectives and plans of the company.
Coordination function requires the alignment of the action work of any individual or section within the company to achieve the goal. Thus it can be said that
coordination necessary to create good planning, which can indicate alignment between one part of the plan with other parts. The budget serves as the planning should be able to adjust the plan are made to various sections within the company, so plan activities that will be in harmony with one another. For that budget can be used as a tool for the coordination of all parts that exist within the company, because all the activities that are interrelated between one part with another part is set up properly.
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Posted on 08 November 2011. Tags: Business Info, Business process, Company, Function (mathematics), Implementation, Management, Planning, Strategic management
The role of the budget on a company is a management tool to assist in the implementation, the functions of planning, coordination, supervision and guidance as well as work in running the company for its intended purpose.
Planning function
Planning is one of the management function and this function is one of the management function and this function is the basis for the implementation of other management functions.
provide an understanding of planning as follows:
“Planning includes action to select and connect the facts and making and using assumptions about the future in terms of visualizing and formulating the proposed activities are deemed necessary to achieve the desired bacillus”.
From the above quotation is concluded that before the company conduct its operations, the leadership of the company must first define what activities will be implemented in the future and the results to be achieved from these activities, as well as how to implement it. With this plan, then the activity will be performing well.
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Posted on 04 November 2011. Tags: Budget, Business Info, Certified Financial Planner, Financial plan, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Goal, Vocus
Understanding the Budget:
Glenn A Welsch defines budget as follows “Profit planning and control may be broadly as de fined as sistematic and formalized approach for accomplishing the planning, coordinating and control responsibility of management”.
From the definition above, the budget associated with the basic functions of management which includes the planning, coordination and supervision. So if the basic functions associated budget management budget should include the planning, directing, organizing and overseeing every unit and organizational areas within a business entity.
According to Gomes (1995, p.87-88), the budget is a document that seeks to reconcile the priorities of the program
with revenue sources are projected. The budget incorporates an announcement from the organization’s activities or purposes for a period of time determined by the information about the funds needed for the event or to achieve that goal.
According to Mulyadi (2001, p.488), the budget is a plan of work that expressed quantitatively measured in monetary units and standard units of measure other menvakup period of one year.
According Supriyono (1990, p.15), budgeting is a financial planning firm that is used as the basis of control (supervision) finance company for the coming period.
The budget is a short-term plans based on long-term action plans that have been defined in the programming process. Where the budget prepared by management for a period of one year, which will bring the company to the specific conditions required by the specified resource.
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