All About Revenue and Receivables

In most businesses, what drives the balance sheet are sales and expenses. In other words, they cause the assets and liabilities in a business. One of the more complicated accounting items are the accounts
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Can You Predict Your Cash Flow?

If you provide terms for your products or services to your customers, it can be a challenge to predict how your cash flow will be from day to day. You are actually providing financing for your customers. I hope you understand that is what takes place, you are being the bank.
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The Japanese government has approved a record level of spending of 92.4 trillion yen ($1.1tn; £711bn) for the next financial year.

The cabinet agreed the draft budget, which must still be approved by parliament before 31 March.
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The FTSE 100 index has closed above 6,000 points for the first time since June 2008.  The index of blue chip shares broke through the symbolic mark to finish up 12.85 points, or 0.2%, at 6008.92.

A late rally in retail stocks helped the index as investors bet on a late surge in consumers’ Christmas spending.
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The holidays can really have us searching for a deeper meaning — one that tells how to make the dollars go further. There are easy ways to start saving money.

Start with the simple things. Eat out less, and stay home more often. Have your friends over for a movie night instead of going out on the town.
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eurozone’s unemployment rate hit 10.1% in October as jobless rates rose in Italy, inched down in France and Germany, and remained stable in Spain.

The rate was the highest since July 1998, said EU agency Eurostat.
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The number of new mortgages being approved for house buyers has fallen for the sixth month in a row, Bank of England figures show.

There were 47,185 mortgage approvals in October, down slightly from September’s level and 17% lower than in
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Microsoft’s first-quarter sales of $16.2 billion rose 25% from last year, thanks to strong showings from Office 2010, Windows 7 and Xbox 360.

Microsoft’s net income jumped 51% from last year, to $5.41 billion, or 62 cents per share. The company easily topped analyst estimates for both sales and earnings.
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A Barbie doll wearing a diamond necklace has sold at an auction in New York for a record amount.

The one-off Barbie, created by Stefano Canturi, wears a black strapless evening dress with a choker featuring a one-carat square-cut pink
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While heading to a private college is still more expensive than going to a state school, tuition and fees are climbing at a faster pace at public schools than at their private brethren.

For the school year 2010-11, in-state tuition and fees at public four-year
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