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Highly speculative, world stock markets are governed by the momentum of the underwriters of securities, rather than by realities on the behavior and performance indicators developed and emerging economies. Of course the hard data does not suit them to brokers, because then there would be no bubbles where opportunistic versed mounted and snatch it for, before bursting and being dragged by losses, and successfully overcome the dividends of others in the pocket.

Because speculators are betting always win-win, whether by simple paper-the betting money in hand and lonely dreamers are outdated, remember Dostoevsky prefer living in a delusion profitable or unsubstantiated optimism must be alert to indicators of real economies. The case is like betting on roulette, more like a stroke of luck to pull water to their mill, losing on the road when it appears on the board of the bag the rate of the company concerned.

However, beware. This is just simply printing more and more contained, but it is a half-truth. The truth is that, deep down, speculators, brokers or professional underwriters, deal understood to values, i.e. values “hidden” or privileged and confidential information of the indicators of those companies with high market value. In addition, these values are subject to purchase or sell, while approaching the periodic financial reports, quarterly, semiannual and annual. O according to a new placement.

The previous information allows you to buy or sell on time or before the announcement of the company. With trap, because the corridor is managed with the advancement. However, the other side is speculative, those that move beyond inflating the values of the real situation of enterprises. Alternatively, in some sectors of economies. There are also millions of records sold. However, both cases are classified as financial crimes. However, not always punished or reaches its ultimate consequences for the investigation to comment on this type of breach. Is it because they serve businesspersons, bankers and speculators, against which the State did not lash?

Protected or not, the fact is that the mechanisms are working even in the larger exchanges in the world (despite all the “locks” of governments) as the triad New York-Tokyo-London, or Frankfurt, Paris, etc. The first and most important, because it moves up 60 percent of world trade in values, about some 3,000 large companies in the second quoted an amount 50 percent below first.

In May 2006, issued a press release that hit the Israeli economic environment. It was the purchase, by W. Buffet, 80% of the company Oscar, a maker of tools for the metalworking industry, for four billion dollars. The news, at that time, he realized a very important event and that certainly could be interpreted, rightly, as a show of confidence in the country’s industrial capacity.

However, we should remember that at that time the treatment the media gave Israel the transaction was such that it seemed that we were all fortunate. This led me to write at the time that “very nearly every one of us feel personally that was about to pocket some of that money and shared the honor of being chosen by the said investor to buy it ‘our’ company”.

Course and had passed while the impact of the transaction, re-entry to normal and the acceptance of that in the best, the most favored are the former owners of Oscar, while for the country and society can have meant a further step in the weakening of its ability to control their resources.

I came to mind this incident to reflect on what is happening with the discovery of large deposits of natural gas in the territorial waters of the country, news that has again placed as the subject of headlines.

Until recently, Israel was recognized as a country endowed with little natural resources, particularly energy resources. However, in the late 90s were discovered and put into operation a natural gas field (the Mari-B field) in territorial waters against Sakhalin, it is estimated that this site will remain productive until 2012 .

In early 2009 the same company that had explored and exploited the Mari-B field, is an American business consortium partners (Noble Energy) and Israeli (Derek, Asarco, Door Gas) – announced the discovery of a new field natural gas (field Tamar) off the coast of Haifa, estimating that would be able to meet the needs of the country for the next 15 years.

In addition, in June this year the company announced that the consortium said the new discoveries, including the field Leviathan, Israel would be entering a path to energy independence because it would have “sufficient local power for 100 years.”
Please note that Israel imports about eight million dollars to 9,000 annual energy commodities (oil, gas and coal, mostly), which represents almost 20% of total U.S. imports, excluding diamonds.

The value of the company is an indicator that the vast majority of cases, employers tend to forget and only remember him when they have to sell your company or someone makes them an offer to buy it. However, the value of the company expresses many things and can be used to measure the actions taken in the company, at a given time and their influence on it.
The other myth is that the value of the company is a metric that can only be used by large employers. Quite the contrary, it is a tool that can be used by all employers, regardless of company size and industry in which it operates.
There are many ways to calculate the value of a company from a very simple as multiplying the sales or net income by a multiple, as the most complex, involving the need to make projections for five or 10 years depending on the amount of data that have and how sophisticated the same business area.
The important thing is to be clear that as is necessary to do appraisals for any property that you have, and keep these updated valuations, entrepreneurs, business owners and shareholders must be clear of the value of their companies, at any time, and maintain updated it.
This can be done internally, as a function over the company’s CFO, and / or hire a professional in the field, which can be impartial and objective at the time of the different formulas to measure the value of company.
Before starting any process of valuation, of any size, it is necessary to obtain historical information of the company, so this is the foundation for building the future. Once this historical information is worked, there should be forward-looking building. This historical information should be supplemented with plans for short, medium and long term that the company has, as well as an analysis of the economic situation in the area of influence of the company. Despite the good economic times of the Republic of Panama, is not the same have a Super Mini in Puerto Argüelles, where the local economy is depressed, a mini Super in Chorea, with a growing population, changing and improving economically.
The simpler is the company and its books, the faster will be the projection process, however, if accounting is complicated, the construction of the projections is also complicated, requiring more time for construction.
The important thing in any case, is that your company has accounting, since without it is impossible to make a valuation and will do the accounting necessary first to start the process (and do not think this is unusual, in my years as a consultant Financial, we have found different types of companies whose records do not exist, or leaves much to be desired).
Do not worry if it is a medium or large company, and has no CFO. You may have this function in your company through an outsourcing service, without any trauma, as we understand that for many businesses, having an accounting department or accountant make them meaningful and financially viable, while hire someone in finance represents a strong brew. For this, we provide outsourcing services, which would be the first step for their accounts to another level, and to learn to make strategic decisions with a little more ill give us a higher GDP more healthy and stable.

It is essential to have timely information to make the best decisions at the right time. In this situation, new information technologies are very relevant. Allow to obtain and process more information than manual means. Therefore, companies invest in them.

These are just a tool (yes, very powerful and flexible) for the management of enterprises. It is therefore clear that new technologies are an essential and continuous development within any company. But the technologies are much more present in large firms than in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this is mainly due to the size of the company and, therefore, the scope of it and its investment capability management, but little by little the difference is narrowing, as many SMEs are becoming aware that the use of ICT is a key issue for expansion and survival.

In recent years, include the Internet as the revolutionary element, followed by mobile phones. In short time the Internet has become essential in any business, regardless of size. Existing Internet companies operating in global field operations, the majority of society makes daily use of computers, which use occurs primarily in the home and workplace. Therefore, we can deduce that much use has a job goal.