Resources business

Resources in the general sense is a source and obtain the necessary prerequisites for people's material and spiritual wealth. The main types of resources used in business activity, usually related to: financial, work equipment, labor, including intellectual resources, financial, information. Material resources - a collection of items of work to be used in the production process of the social product. Tangible resources include raw materials, fuel, energy, intermediate products, parts, etc. Often enough to material resources include all resources in-kind. Means of labor - something with which the manufacturing process is carried out. As a means of labor are the buildings, machines, machinery, etc. Manpower - this is part of the country, with its combination of physical and spiritual abilities, which may participate in the labor process. Manpower characterize the working-age population. Objects of labor, instruments of labor and workers with their ability to work relate to the productive resources of the enterprise. Information resources - a collection of data organized to obtain reliable information. They include some of the documents and files of documents in information systems: libraries, archives, funds, data, etc. Note that a special role in today's conditions is an electronic archive system. The financial resources of the enterprise - a set of cash flows the company intended to meet the financial obligations and make expenditures for expanded reproduction. The financial resources of enterprises can be classified according to areas of investment and source of formation. Thus, the sources of funding in cash equivalent assets are always equal to the organization. All assets of the company are divided into non-current assets (assets, life more than a year) and current assets (assets that turn fast enough). Financial resources by source of education are divided into internal and external. The key internal financial resources of income and depreciation. External (borrowed) the financial resources can be mobilized in the financial markets and the resulting redistribution. They can be formed due to: additional contributions by owners, issue and sale of shares in the sale of debt securities (bonds, bills), to attract loans, obtaining deferments of payment for purchased materials and goods, obtaining insurance reimbursement, grant transfers from the state , parent organizations, etc. Of all the resources traditionally allocate productive resources, that is, those who are directly involved in the production process. A special role is played by venture capital. This is part of the financial resources invested in several companies for profit, and rights to manage the firm. He shares (which, incidentally, is characteristic of capital in general) on the rate of turnover in the fixed and circulating capital, and on the nature of liabilities and debt on its own. Shareholders' equity - an asset owned by the company. For equity include: charter capital; additional capital, reserve capital, retained earnings, other reserves, deferred income. This capital is seen as liabilities to the owners. Debt capital is characterized by the size of long-and short-term liabilities of the firm.