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| Articles about Tackling |
| | Is your portfolio tackling inflation? | | 2008-07-13 06:40:00 | | Inflation is the increase in general price levels in an economy. What it means is that in an inflationary economy your money won't buy as much today as it did before. Inflation is a decline in the purchasing power of money. So what happens to your investments when inflation shoots up?Inflation is often termed as devil by the common man. The grocery bills find their way up while the value of your hard-earned money plummets. Money is not safe in fixed deposits or post offices schemes - inflation will be eroding your money locked there.It is difficult for investments yielding single digit returns to keep pace with inflation. Be it soaring oil prices or global factors, inflation is here to stay and investors must learn to cope with it.Traditionally, real estate and equity have known to beat inflation. Property prices in many cities have saturated at high levels. Coupled with it, banks are increasing their lending rates. Hence, investments in property may be difficult for some.Stock markets... | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
| | 10 Steps To Tackling Your Credit Card Debt Problem | | 2008-07-06 23:54:29 | | First of all, you can take comfort in the fact that you are not the only one fighting credit card debt problems. There are hordes of people who have even worse credit card debt problems when compared to yours; all of them seeking an effective way to eliminate the credit card debt. So what is the solution to your credit card debt problem?Well, the solution really is to smash the credit card debt with full force and eliminate it completely. Now how do you do that?There are many ways in which you can solve your credit card debt problem. Different people suggest different ways of tackling it. However, here is a simple step by step account of what you can do to get rid of your credit card debt.1. Take stock of the situation i.e. draw up a table with the following fields – Credit card name, balance, payment due day (the day of the month by which you are required to make payment of your credit card bill), APR, reward points earned, redemption offers applicable for your reward points balance... | | By: credit cards | | |
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| Tackling inflation should be priority in Asia-IMF | | 2008-04-11 11:06:00 | | Reducing rising inflation in some countries in Asia should be a bigger priority for governments than slowing economic growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund's Asia department said on Friday.
IMF director for Asia and Pacific region, David Burton, said there were no signs of a credit squeeze in the region although equity markets are substantially down, which has had implications for... | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | | Viet Nam leads way in tackling poverty, says WB | | 2008-02-15 03:47:00 | | The World Bank (WB)’s Country Director for Viet Nam Ajay Chhibber has praised Viet Nam’s efforts in reducing poverty in the country over the past year.In his article ran on “The Banker†magazine in February edition, Ajay wrote that the declining poverty rate in Viet Nam is due to the country’s policy of inclusive development.Over the past 15 years, Viet Nam has achieved one of the world’s fastest declines in poverty. The country’s poverty rate – measured as the percentage of people who live below 1 USD a day – has declined from about 58 percent in 1993 to 16% in 2006, and 34 million people have come out of poverty.“Steady and rapid growth in income, of about 7% to 8% a year, have been a key factor in this reduction,†Ajay said.The WB official stressed that what marks Viet Nam out from other-fast growing economies is the combination of spectacular growth with limited increase in inequality. The Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has increased from 0.... | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| Tackling the Chargebacks | | 2007-05-25 15:25:49 | |
One of the dark sides of doing business with some customers, such as big box retailers, is charge backs. It can be a cost of doing business.
I remember back when I was CFO for a pharmaceutical firm and one of our customers was a large pharmaceutical distributor. They were very actively involved in chargebacks. It wasn’t a pleasant task. It was hard work, but in that particular instance we saved the company about $45,000. It was time spent that had a demonstrated return on investment and was time very worthwhile. The pain was worth it.
So here are some suggestions about charge backs:
1. Jump on these quickly. Charge backs can be like a cancer. They can be very infectious and permanent. If they aren’t nipped at the bud, they can become very institutionalized and harder to get rid of. Time does not work in your favor.
2. Keep a listing or log of the types of charge backs that you are getting from a particular customer. Normally, they’ll be a pattern. You’ll see certain char... | | By: Ask Jon Paul | | |
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