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Company Managers - Tools?
eConomy issue #3, Nov 1st, 2008
What Can a Company Manager Do Without His Tool?
Executives in companies around eWorld have always trusted their precious contraptions for sales figures and charts. The latest business managent model doesn't think they are so important, but everyone knows that a manager without his tool is just another unhappy worker.
Nobody really likes the manual work of constantly listing their sales and salary expenses, the usage and expenditures of raw material purchases and making charts out of them. The eWorld needs a new module added into this system so that the managers can just take the automatically generated lists and make charts of their own from them. Then they can concentrate more on improving other aspects of their companies.
A simple thing like a sales list sorted by days? Nowhere to be seen. An overall view of a month's expenditures and income which was in extensive use despite it's shortcomings? Disappeared mysteriously. Some less active managers might lose their companies thanks to difficulties in calculating expenses and income with only assumptions to rely on. Some might call that a type of Darwinism, for some it's a disaster.
There is only one thing everyone can do at the moment, and that's to wait and do the work manually until these systems are given to the managers. While we wait for the officials to implement these new tools, we should concentrate on keeping the economy stable and the competition healthy.
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Head Journalist and market analyst
Paranox
What Can a Company Manager Do Without His Tool?
Executives in companies around eWorld have always trusted their precious contraptions for sales figures and charts. The latest business managent model doesn't think they are so important, but everyone knows that a manager without his tool is just another unhappy worker.
Nobody really likes the manual work of constantly listing their sales and salary expenses, the usage and expenditures of raw material purchases and making charts out of them. The eWorld needs a new module added into this system so that the managers can just take the automatically generated lists and make charts of their own from them. Then they can concentrate more on improving other aspects of their companies.
A simple thing like a sales list sorted by days? Nowhere to be seen. An overall view of a month's expenditures and income which was in extensive use despite it's shortcomings? Disappeared mysteriously. Some less active managers might lose their companies thanks to difficulties in calculating expenses and income with only assumptions to rely on. Some might call that a type of Darwinism, for some it's a disaster.
There is only one thing everyone can do at the moment, and that's to wait and do the work manually until these systems are given to the managers. While we wait for the officials to implement these new tools, we should concentrate on keeping the economy stable and the competition healthy.
_____________________________
Head Journalist and market analyst
Paranox
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Great work again. Do you make suggest to admin have those management tools?
Didn't start writing a suggestion to them yet, but I am soon going to.
this is an important issue..thank u for ur article..please everybody vote this article..
Monthly Income and Expenditures
Start the calculations on 1st of each month at 00:00 and reset the value to zero. Save the results of the last month and make them filterable through a selection module the same way you view election results, monthly results: current (last month, before that, etc)
Income
Product sales (including VAT)
Investments
Monetary market exchanges
Total income
Expenditures
Sales VAT portion
Collected profit
Monetary market exchanges
Salaries (without tax and income tax portion)
Product purchases
Total expenditures
Overall total = Income - Expenditures
Most important of this all is that please don't round the figures to two decimals for the calculations, only round the figures for the result list. At least in beta you rounded the salaries so that the worker didn't get the full salary and the company didn't pay the full tax, resulting in a real salary expense often 0.01 less than should be. This is not the only place where this problem existed.
I think 2 decimals is enough for these lists. You have plenty of float numbers working in calculations in V1, so continue to use those, but show them only when it matters for the viewer.
I think this could be very useful as well...
If GM's could see that their salaries was higher then their sales income, it would maybe help us avoid the constant lowbidding war on the markeds..
I also posted these on the suggestions forum:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/80703/suggestion-marketplace-and-company-statistic-improvements/1
good job! voted
Typo. "Company managers = tools". Fixed it.
No no, it isn't meant to imply that they're tools, it's just how you read it