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Too often, companies die unnecessarily. Why? Because most managers haven’t learned to recognize the symptoms of oncoming illness in their business. And when symptoms do start occurring, management doesn’t know how to manage in this situation. They haven’t had to in the past, and they are ill equipped when trouble sets in.

The obvious signs of business trouble are rarely its root causes. Losing money, for example, isn’t the problem. Rather, losing money is the result of other problems.

When you wait too long to recognize deteriorating characteristics, the company will probably seek bankruptcy protection, and only creditors, attorneys, and outside accountants benefit from this process. It’s the astute manager who recognizes fallibility and has the foresight to ask for help…before serious trouble sets in.

Corporate managers, directors, and financial professionals, you share in the business risks of the companies you serve. You accept additional risk when the company is heading for trouble. By recognizing some early-warning signs of business trouble on the horizon, you can eliminate, overcome, or, at the very least, sidestep those risks.

If you can answer yes to some of these questions, it’s time to take decisive action.

Is the owner or top management overextended?

Whose work are they doing? When they continue to perform functions that should be done by others (once the business has grown to a more complex level), they’re overextended.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offers the following guidelines to evaluate whether you are facing significant financial difficulties.

• Loan payments, excluding mortgages, but including credit card charges, take up more than 20% of your monthly net income.
• You are close to, or surpass, your credit card limit.
• You must borrow to make payments on existing loans.
• You only pay the minimum amount on your bill.
• Lack of money is forcing you to pay bills late or postpone doctor’s visits.
• You must work overtime, or take a second job, to cover basic living expenses.

Save

Another key aspect in the management of personal finances is having the ability to save, that is, to spend each month a portion of proceeds to a stock savings that help us to invest or emergency.

Some advice is to spend at least 10% of our total revenue savings this bag, this bag is in a bank account, and we spend this money before any other payment.

Investing

In addition to saving, we also have the ability to invest, ie to use the money we’ve saved in any investment vehicle, so we can make it grow.

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Knowing the financial situation

Know our financial situation is the starting point for the proper handling of our personal finances.

From the knowledge of our financial situation is we plan our personal finances, ie, we set our financial goals and design plans that allow us to achieve those goals.

Setting financial goals

Setting financial goals helps us guide and motivation to improve our financial situation, as well as allowing to measure our progress.

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Not to the point of talking at the level of the national economy, but rather trying to take as the axis focus to the subject or the person holding the money, we can say that A or key facto in this process is you. Robert Kiyosaki mentioned in many of his books that people are accustomed to bad money management. At this point I strongly agree with him. But the key question is: What factors contribute to our financial ignorance?

The answer is simple: financial education they gave us.

Until today I have not seen in schools and universities to touch issues about money management and personal finance. No topics such as taxes, banking. Issues that we deal with almost 80% of our lives. In other words, they are forgetting an important education 80%. Read the rest of this entry »

What about friends, is a pleasure to be with you in this segment of finance. Then I will give you some tips that will serve to avoid financial problems in his family.

Make sure your spouse and children, understand that all together must meet a series of steps to maintain the economy.

· Make a realistic budget and stick to it. This includes a periodic check and adjustment of their numbers and spending habits.

• Do not buy impulsively. When you see something that has not planned to buy, avoid doing so, think twice.

· Buy something they can afford at the moment. Do not pay expenses in the future, credit cards can betray your budget unconsciously. Read the rest of this entry »