capital

Examples of capital in the following topics:

• Return on Investment

  • Return on investment is one way of considering profits in relation to the capital invested.
  • Marketing decisions, such as setting prices, have obvious potential connection to the return on investment, but these same decisions often influence asset usage and capital requirements (for example, receivables and inventories).

• The European Union (EU)

  • Its de facto capital is Brussels.
  • EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital; enact legislation in justice and home affairs; and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development.
  • The single market involves the free circulation of goods, capital, people, and services within the EU, and the customs union involves the application of a common external tariff on all goods entering the market.
  • Free movement of capital is intended to permit movement of investments such as property purchases and the buying of shares between countries.

• Types of Businesses

  • American economist Milton Friedman once famously proclaimed that "the business of business is business. " Capitalist economies such as the United States rely on businesses to legally produce capital from the trading of goods and services.
  • Financial businesses include banks and other companies that generate profit through investment and management of capital.

• The Common Market of the Southern Cone (MERCOSUR)

  • Mercosur seeks to coordinate macroeconomic and sector policies of member states relating to foreign trade, agriculture, industry, taxes, monetary system, exchange and capital, services, customs, transport and communications, and any others they may agree on, in order to ensure free competition between member states.
  • The common market will allow (in addition to customs unification) the free movement of manpower and capital across the member nations.

• Are Global Corporations Beneficial?

  • Building this public relations potential in a new geographic region is an enormous challenge, both in effectively localizing the message and in the capital expenditures necessary to create momentum.
  • International expansion requires enormous capital investments in many cases, along with the development of a specific strategic business unit (SBU) in order to manage these accounts and operations.
  • This means larger volumes of sales and exchange, larger growth rates in GDP, and more empowerment of individuals and political systems through acquiring additional resources and capital.

• Brand Ownership

  • This symbol is designated by ® (the circled capital letter "R")

• Responding to the External Environment

  • The best organizations are able to respond quickly to environmental changes and capitalize on them.

• Selecting Target Markets

  • These groups of interested consumers within the broader market is usually referred to as a target market, and should be a much more strategic place to invest capital in terms of marketing distribution.

• Value of Retailing

  • Profit is defined as the return to an owner of capital stock (means of production or land) in any productive pursuit involving labor or a return on bonds and money in capital markets.

• Break-Even Analysis

  • A profit or a loss has not been made, although opportunity costs have been "paid", and capital has received the risk-adjusted, expected return.