Securing your DEMAT ACCOUNT

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Your demat account is generally secure, thanks to safeguards by depository participants (DPs). But you cannot rule out frauds. Sometimes a dishonest DP official may transfer your shares to another account for personal gain. So follow these steps to make your demat account more secure:
Even if you don’t trade your shares, track your demat account [...]

Why it is costly to use credit cards

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

While using credit cards, we not only pay for the purchases we make, we have to pay an additional charge, from which the credit card company pays it’s employees, for the advertisements and so on. No wonder credit companies are having to confront mortal costs in fraud ( again, passed on to us). What on [...]

Definitions of Management

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

There are many definitions given to management. Let us see what some people say about management:
Mary Parker Follet – Management is the art of getting things done through people.
Sir Charles Reynold – Management is the process of getting things done through the agency of a community. The functions of management are the handling of a [...]

How to get lucky

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

For centuries, people have recognised the power of luck and have done whatever they could to try seizing it. We see that some people are consistently lucky and others aren’t. Lucky people, get that way via some basic principles-seizing chance opportunities; creating self-fulfilling prophecies through positive expectations; and adopting a resilient attitude that turns bad [...]

Prepayment of home loans

Friday, September 18th, 2009

If you suddenly run into good fortune and have spare cash, consider prepaying at least a part of your loan, at one go or annually. This way, your principal will come down and your years of indebtedness will get reduced. Best of all, it will considerably cut down the total interest amount you will pay. [...]

Hapless card holder

Friday, September 18th, 2009

It is a very sad condition for card holders, who lose it. Although many banks deactivate credit cards as soon as the card holder calls in to say it is stolen or lost, others require a written complaint, along with a police FIR – and that too during office hours. In the meantime, a thief [...]

Luck and Money

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Another important principle revolved around the way in which lucky and unlucky people deal with misfortune. For example, an athlete participating in the Olympics, when he wins the bronze medal, he is happier than the silver medallist. The reason for this is the silver medallist thinks that if he had performed slightly better, he might [...]

Capital budgeting

Friday, September 4th, 2009

The most vital aspect of the business is undoubtedly, capital management. Capital management is the most interesting and valuable work at the top management level. A business firm cannot remain static; its tendency is either to move forward or backward. Only when there is adequate financial resources, expansion can take place. Capital management is concerned [...]