Management

Critical Success Factors

Critical Success Factors Concept: Critical Success Factors are the variables that provide more value to the clients and that better differentiate the…

Ethics Tools

Ethics Tools Concept: If we think in ethic as a moral science, to perform with ethic, it’s enough to respect the moral rules prevailing in…

Fairness Theory

Fairness Theory Presentation: Fairness Theory, usually attributed to J. Stacy Adams, is one of the various theories about motivation…

Fiedler Leadership Model

Fiedler Leadership Model For Fielder it’s very difficult for a manager to change the management style with which had success. So, since the styles are relatively inflexible and since no style is appropriate for all situations, effective performance in a group can only be achieved attempting to adapt the manager to the situation or to […]

Financial Autonomy

Financial Autonomy Concept Financial autonomy indicates the part of the company’s total applications, namely goods and investment applications, financial applications, stocks applications, credit granted to clients, etc., which was supported by capitals owned by the company self, this is, the called equity. This concept is extremely useful on the long term financial risk evaluation since […]

Financial Indicators

Financial Indicators Concept The expression Financial Indicators designates a type if indictors calculated from the financial data of a certain organization and can be expressed in absolute monetary values, relative values or variation rates, time, among others. In most situations, financial indicators seek to evaluate the company’s risk, this is, its capacity to honor its […]

Financial Leverage

Financial Leverage Concept: Financial Leverage corresponds to a financial growth effect of Profitability of Equity Capitals (also designated as…

Financial Management

Financial Management Concept: Financial management is one of the traditional management functional areas found in any organization and to…

Financial Resources

Financial Resources Concept: Financial resources of an organization represent the monetary means detained by that same…

Financial statements

According to IAS – International Accounting Standards, the financial statements are a structured representation of the financial position and financial performance of an entity. The objective of general purpose financial statements is to provide information about the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of an entity that is useful to a wide range of […]

Fixed Costs

Fixed Costs Concept: Fixed costs are entity’s costs that will remain constant independently of the positive or negative…

Flowchart

Flowchart Concept: The term flowchart designates a graphic representation of a certain process or work flow, generally…

Formal Organization

Formal Organization Concept: Formal Organization corresponds to the organizations’ component that establishes the way how is…

Fourteen Deming Points

The fourteen points created by W. Eduards Deming, form a summary of his message and are today considered by many as the “commandments” of the quality improvement. These points are the following: Establish a permanent goal about the product and service improvement; Adopt the new philosophy; Don’t depend from the inspections to reach quality; Finish […]

Franchising

Franchising Concept: The term Franchising is used to designate a contractual relation between the owner of a certain brand…

Frederick Herzberg

Frederick Herzberg (Life and Work): Frederick Herzberg was an important studious of human motivations having given a significant…

Frederick Taylor

Biography of Frederick Taylor Frederick Winslow Taylor was a North American Mechanical Engineer, born in 1856 in Philadelphia in United States, was known as the father of the Work Scientific Theory (or Taylorism, designatin given in his honor). He began his professional career with 18 years of age as mechanic apprentice studying at night in […]

Funding Source

Funding Source Concept: Funding sources designate the set of the organizations’ internal and external capitals used for…

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol Biography: Mines engineer and French administrator, Henri Fayol was one of the first researchers to analyze the…

Net Working Capital

Net Working Capital Concept: Working Capital is a financial indicator and designates the set of all assets and liability values associated to the…

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