Corporate Amalgamation: Types, Merits, and Demerits

Amalgamation of Companies

Amalgamation refers to the process where two or more companies combine to form a single new company. The companies involved may agree to merge their operations, assets, and liabilities in order to create a more competitive or efficient business entity. The goal of amalgamation is often to achieve synergies, reduce competition, or expand market reach.

In an amalgamation, the companies involved may cease to exist as independent entities, and a new entity may emerge, or one

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Public Revenues and Public Debt: Understanding State Finances

Item 10: Other Public Revenues

1. Tributes of Contract Status

1.1 Fees

From a strictly operational point of view, the rate can be conceptualized as a coercive government revenue (tax) where the chargeable event is to use a particular title or be deprived of a public domain, and the provision of public services to which it relates, directly affect or benefit the taxpayer, for whom giving satisfactory, and, moreover, in no case be paid or incurred by the private sector.

  • These are revenues that the State
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Inflation, Labor Market Theories, and Economic Policies

Interpretation of Inflation

Demand Approaches

There is an excess of demand over supply.

Classical Explanation (Bodin and Hume): According to them, prices rise because there was plenty of money.

Quantity Theory of Money (Fischer): M x V = P x T. Increased M leads to increased P.

Keynesian Explanation: Based on the behavior of aggregate demand, facing the potential of aggregate supply, or what is the same, the “productive capacity”. If aggregate demand is greater than aggregate supply, prices will increase.

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Navigating the Global Economy: Trends, Strategies, and Marketing

The world economy has undergone significant changes in recent years, transforming large geographical areas into a small and interconnected world. This transformation is driven by technological development, advances in communications and computing, and increased trade and mobility. This reduction in distance has allowed many companies to expand their geographic markets and sources of supply. They can now buy and sell in distant places. Many products sold in a country are hybrids, with processes,

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Retail Merchandising and Store Layout Strategies

Facing and Linear Minimum

Facing: The area occupied by a unit of product in front of a bookshelf or exhibitor.

Stock Presentation: The total number of product units located in several rows on a shelf’s depth.

Linear minimum: The minimum space required on a shelf for a product to be perceived by the consumer. To determine this, we must consider:

  • A) The required surface area for each product.
  • B) The capacity of the exhibitor.
  • C) The minimum space required for the product to be perceived by the consumer.
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Product Cost Calculation: Procurement to Manufacturing

**Costs Associated with the Product**

The product cost is obtained by adding the costs generated in the different phases of the business. The total cost of the finished product consists of:

  1. Procurement Cost

    Includes the cost of raw materials and other materials or elements that are incorporated into the product, and all the costs of supply such as packaging, transportation, insurance, etc. It should be added the costs associated with order management, administration, telephone, fax, etc., and follow

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