Working Capital Ratio and the Importance of Working Capital Management

The company needs some amount of liquid assets and capital that would help the company manage its daily activities and this capital is known as working capital. 
If you made a comparison of the company's current assets against its current liabilities, you would arrive at the working capital ratio for the particular company. In order to better understand the working capital ratio let us take a look at the definition of current assets and current liabilities.

Current Assets: Current assets are the short term assets of the company that we are going to consider for the working capital ratio in the form of cash, accounts receivable, inventory, short term investments and pre-paid expenses.

Current liabilities: Current liabilities are the short term liabilities of the company that we are going to consider for the working capital ratio in the form of accounts payable, outstanding expenses, payable taxes and short term loans.

Thus, the working capital ratio is useful in telling us whether the business can support itself with its current assets despite its current liabilities. The mathematical formula to calculate the working capital ratio is:

Working capital ratio = current assets / current liabilities

In order to calculate the working capital ratio we can assume the current assets of a company to be USD 250,000 against

How would donors allocate AID for effectiveness?

Do you think that the aid will allocate to the poor people especially the poorest ? How do you think? 

There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation Department reviews have suggested about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth, and then for promoting other goals. This review forms the basis for a discussion of recommendations to improve aid effectiveness and a discussion of effective aid allocation. Given the multiple potential objectives for aid, there is no one right answer. However, it appears that there are a number of reforms to aid practices and distribution that might help to deliver a more significant return to aid resources. We should provide aid where institutions are already strong, where they can be strengthened with the help of donor resources, or where they can be bypassed with limited damage to existing institutional capacity. The importance of institutions to aid outcomes, as well as the fundibility of aid flows, suggests that programmatic aid should be expanded in countries with strong institutions, while project aid should be supported based on its ability to transfer knowledge and test new practices and support global public good provision rather than (merely) as a tool of financial resource transfer. The importance of institutions also suggests that we should be cautious in our expectations regarding the results of increased aid flows.

How to do with a child, actually a toddler, which won't eat?

Parents can help their children to develop a proper feeling of hunger. They can help them recognize their true feelings. For example, they should only give a child food when it is physically hungry. Food should never be used as a reward or comfort of some kind. It should only be associated with genuine physical hunger. This is most important.

It is important to listen to the child in order to understand its feelings and needs and show respect for them but that doesn't mean that the child should always get exactly what it wants. It can get understanding for its experiences. Where food is concerned the child should eat when hungry and stop when satisfied.

Never compel a child to eat. Do not reward a child with food, do not punish a child by withholding food. Don't overemphasise food. You eat primarily to get nutrition and satisfy hunger. Enjoyment can be found elsewhere. Serve proper food, not candy, buns or cakes.
The foundation for an eating disorder is often laid during the first year of a child's life, but its development continues throughout its entire upbringing.

The surrounding environment must during this period react according to the child's true emotions. Then and only then can the child learn to organize the determining bits and pieces of information to understand and interpret them. Before they have learned to master this, they can not differentiate among their various needs and impulses. If they do not learn this, they will grow up confused when it comes to distinguishing biological and emotional experiences. Such people feel helplessly controlled by external causes.

You can find out how the development can go wrong by studying the eating of a baby. When the caretaker offers food as the answer to a cry, meaning need of nutrition, then the child will little by little learn to single out a true feeling of "hunger" which is different from other tensions and needs. If on the other hand the caretaker's reaction is not adequate, for example if he neglects, overprotects, hampers or is limitlessly allowing, then the result will be a tangled mess. When the child grows older it will not be able to differ between hunger and satisfaction or between nutritional needs and other feelings of discomfort and tension.

How to Solve Personal Problems

It is always a very useful approach to think of successful strategies for problems in the past. Train yourself to adapt useful problem-solving techniques to new situations!
Here is one of many possible models of problem solving.

1. Problem identification What is my concern?
2. Goal definition What do I want to achieve or change?
3. Brainstorming What can I do?
4. Consequences What might happen?
5. Decision How should I do it?
6. Implementation Do it!
7. Evaluation Did it work?

These seven simple steps can be applied to nearly all kinds of problems in life.

Grant Proposal Writer

The Well-Organized Grant Proposal Writer

By Joanne Fritz, About.com Guide

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Grant writing begins long before you actually have a grant to write. Your tools of the trade is information...organizational information. Even before you start looking for foundations that might want to fund your nonprofit, an in-depth understanding of its mission and activities and a trove of easy-to-tap organizational information are essential.

How To Write a Mission Statement

Writing a Mission Statement is a complex activity involving every level of the organization. Here's how to get started.

1. List the organization's core competencies; its unique strengths and weaknesses.