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For many coffee drinkers, the popularity of coffee is a given, due to coffee’s taste and the stimulating effect of caffeine. While these factors are important, historical and social factors have also contributed to the fact that coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world today.
The Popularity of Coffee: An Historical Prospective
Coffee was discovered in Ethiopia but was first cultivated on the Arabian Peninsula. When coffee came to the Arabian Peninsula in c1100, it was the time of the Arab Empire. As those who lived in the Arab Empire were Muslims, they were forbidden to drink alcohol, unlike their European counterparts.
Over time, coffee became to the Arabs what wine was to the Europeans. The effects of caffeine were well-suited to Muslim religious customs. According to Islam, Muslims should pray 5 times a day. The stimulating effect of caffeine made it possible for many Muslims to stay awake during prayer time.
As the Arab Empire stretched through Arabia, North Africa, and parts of Europe, trade routes were established . Arab traders brought coffee to Europe, and Europeans too enjoyed the stimulating effects of caffeine and the taste of coffee. Coffee remained popular in Europe. As time went on and Europe expanded its influence over the world, like the Arabs before them, they traded coffee throughout the world.
The popularity of coffee in the United States began in the colonial days. Colonists enjoyed both tea and coffee with some preference for tea, but as the British imposed taxes on tea, resentment set in, leading to the famous Boston Tea Party. Since then, coffee has been the hot beverage of choice for most Americans.
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Day trading the stock market involves the rapid buying and selling of stocks on a day-to-day basis. This technique is used to secure quick profits from the constant changes in stock values, minute to minute, second to second. It is rare that a day trader will remain in a trade over the course of a night into the next day. These trades are entered and exited in a matter of minutes.
Is it necessary to sit at a computer watching the markets ALL day long in order to be a successful day trader?’
The answer is no. It’s not necessary to sit at a computer all day long. There are a number of factors to consider, but generally the rule of day trading is to trade when everyone else is trading. In other words, trade in the morning.
As with all financial investments, day trading is risky – in fact, it’s one of the riskiest forms of trading out there. The stock prices rise or fall according to the behaviour of the market, which is entirely unpredictable. Day traders buy and sell shares rapidly in the hopes of gaining profits within the minutes and seconds they own those particular stocks. Simple to do in theory, harder to do in practice.
If you are constrained by a small amount of capital, you may not be able to buy large amounts of a stock, but buying only a small amount can add to the risk of a loss. And, obviously, it is impossible to predict with certainty which stocks will result in profits and which in losses. Even the best of traders must learn to accept both outcomes.
It’s also important to know that in day trading, it is the number of shares rather than the value of shares that should be the focus. If you day trade, you WILL face losses, but even for the more expensive stocks, the loss should be marginal, because prices do not usually fluctuate to an extreme degree over the course of just one day.
The day trading industry deals in a large variety of stocks and shares. Here are just a few:
Growth-Buying Shares – shares made from profit, which continue to grow in value. Eventually, these shares will begin to decline in price, and an experienced trader can usually predict the future of this type of share.
Small Caps – shares of companies which are on the rise and show no signs of stopping. Although these shares are generally cheap, they are a very risky investment for day traders. You’d be safer to go with large caps and/or mid-caps, which are much more secure and stable thanks to a premium.
Unloved Stocks – company stock that has not performed well in the past. Traders buy these shares in the hopes of generating profits if and when the stock rises in value. As with small caps, unloved stocks can be a risky choice for day traders.
These examples are NOT your only options when it comes to day trading stocks. The best way to determine which type of stock is right for you is to invest some time for careful research, a knowledge of market patterns, a solid strategy, and a disciplined trading plan.
The key to successful day trading is to be prepared. Know as much as possible about the industry before you begin actually trading. You need to learn to trade ONLY when the market gives the right signals, and ONLY when the volume of activity in the market supports a successful .
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Despite widespread agreement that effective expense management is critical to business success, there’s still one aspect of expense management that tends to be handled badly. And it’s costing many businesses millions each year! Ironically, it’s a cost that can be drastically reduced (all but eliminated) overnight.
I’m talking about the processing costs associated with purchases. They’re called “transactional processing costs”; they’re not the cost of the purchase itself, but the cost of the transaction.
The Dollar-Value of Transactional Processing Costs
The end-to-end cost of processing high volume, low value purchases (such as travel, entertainment, contract labor hire, training, employee claims, stationery, publications, books, kitchen supplies, etc.) can be exorbitant. In fact, in many cases, it’s higher than the purchase cost itself (even with the efficiencies delivered by an ERP application). The reason for this is that the total cost-to-transact includes many associated activities such as processing, administration, and bank fees, to name just three. In a typical business, 90% of purchases are low value; they represent less than 10% of total company purchase spend. But because the cost of each transaction is normally much the same regardless of the purchase price, in reality, these low value purchases cost far more than the big purchases. Consequently, the majority of available company resources (e.g. employee time, effort, and money) may be dedicated to managing the low-value, high-volume transactions that constitute a relatively small percentage of overall company expenditure.
How to Reduce Transactional Processing Costs
An increasing number of businesses have taken steps to address this issue, and have enjoyed substantial operational savings and direct bottom-line improvements. They’ve significantly improved their operational efficiency and, in many cases, reduced their transactional processing costs by more than 90% per transaction. This represents substantial cost savings when considering the volume of transactions most companies process each year.
So how did they do it? What is the opportunity for those companies that still employ traditional methods?
Today, many businesses have found a straightforward, effective and efficient answer to this question. They employ a simple solution that combines the use of a traditional credit card with expense management software.
How does this work in practice?
The Process: Your employees use a corporate credit card to procure goods and services. The electronic transaction is sent to their individual PDA or PC (via any network or internet connection). The employee confirms the transaction and charge with the click of a button, and a fully coded transaction is then posted to your chart of accounts. You then make a single payment to the credit card provider for all purchases made using the card during the month. Everything is managed automatically in real time, including all of the controls, business rules, and management notifications that ensure purchases are approved and comply with corporate policy.
The Result: You’re able to consolidate thousands of payments into a single transaction. With the supporting systems, you can analyze expenses and implement controls on a real-time basis.
Case Study
A company processes around 50,000 payment transactions per year, of which 80% (40,000) are low-value/high-volume non strategic expenses. By implementing a ProMaster expense management system, they are able to save $56 per transaction, delivering a total cost saving of $2.24m per year (40,000 x $56.00 = $2.24m). Admittedly, this includes both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ savings, but the business case is real, and is proven to deliver results in all industry sectors including R0I within six months.
Conclusion
For years now, companies have been using credit cards as a corporate payment tool for travel and entertainment costs. The extension of the concept into general business procurement has been made possible more recently by the release of new products from card issuers and the development of sophisticated expense management software systems that provide immediacy of control. Today the concept is a key addition to corporate improvement project portfolios, covering all non-strategic low value spends and potentially far more.
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