Government Intervention and Economics

To the layman, things would seem to be better off if the government would just keep its hands out of the market. In reality, though, governments can and do intervene in their nation's economies in many ways.

Learn about the impact of such government intervention concepts like price ceiling, price floor, and taxation -- all available for you courtesy of Professor Cram and the College-Cram.com team.

Enjoy!

Accounting Cycle help

For those accounting students who aren't accounting majors, getting a handle on all the aspects of the accounting cycle can mean the difference between passing and failing. Luckily, help is available for you at www.College-Cram.com!

The Accounting Cycle covers activities in two distinct sections -- four that happen with every transaction, and six that happen when the reporting period is over. Learn all about accounting cycle activities like debits and credits, adjusting entries, preparing a trial balance, and more with this tutorial.

Before you know it, you'll be acing your exams and impressing your accounting friends. If you have any, that is.

Promotional Products and the Ad Specialty Item

I ran across a few good articles regarding promotional products and the ad specialty item in a series called "Marketing to Make Your Message Stick." These are a must-read for anyone responsible for purchasing promotional products, finding the right ad specialty item, or otherwise promoting their business. Enjoy!


Promoting Your Business -- The 4th P
Ad Specialty Items -- What Works and What Doesn't
21st Century Ad Specialty Item

egrips: Ad Specialty Item for the 21st Century

Remember when we were kids, and mom would get those hokey refrigerator magnets from local businesses like the insurance agent or real estate broker? Those businesses used those magnets for one simple reason -- the magnet sat on the refrigerator which sat right next to the kitchen phone, so a business could be sure their message would be visible whenever you made a phone call.

Guess what? Everybody has a cell phone now, and they aren't using it anywhere near the refrigerator. So how can businesses get their message out to consumers whenever they reach for their phones? With egrips® appliqués, that's how!

Here in the 21st century, egrips® appliqués are the most effective ad specialty item a business can own. Period. How often do you reach for your cell phone? That's how often your message can reach your customers. How often do you see someone else talking on their cell phone? That's how often your logo get reach the people around them. I can't believe there are still business people out there who don't know about this ad specialty item!

Find out more about making egrips appliqués your own ad specialty item.

The best way to study finance

Trolling through Google again today, and I'm amazed at what passes for finance tutorials on the internet. Try it yourself -- search for FINANCE TUTORIALS and check out the top returns. They're all just static text, no interaction required at all. Hell, if that was good enough then I'd stick with the textbook and wouldn't be googling for help.

On the flip side, check out these finance tutorials. Unlike the others, these (courtesy of College-Cram.com) actually let you use your own numbers and (gasp!) walk you through the answers.

How many finance students and MBA neophytes can College-Cram save? Ummm... all of them.

How to make business math add up

Here's an interesting activity for you: type BUSINESS-MATH TUTORIALS into Google and look at the results. Choice #1 is a list of 13 (!) tutorials on About.com; choice #2 some company called StaffKit with some 33 topics covered. Choice #3 is College-Cram.com's Business Math page which has 109 tutorials.

Yes, that's one hundred and nine topics, covering everything from fractions and percents to various depreciation methods to financial ratios. It has practically every topic in my business math textbook, at a much lower price tag.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Silver Linings (and a Dark Cloud too)

In keeping with the holiday season, I'm going to do something positive. Here are a couple of holiday gifts from me to you:

1. If you need help with using a graphing approach to solving systems of linear equations, there's a great little FREE program on www.College-Cram.com/library/study-algebra.htm (It's towards the bottom of the page.) It lays things out clearly, and walks you through the steps to find the solution. I like that it lets you use your own numbers (great for "checking" your homework), and also that it will acknowledge the trick questions of identical and parallel lines.

2. My college accounting textbook had a balance sheet in it, but it did a poor job of explaining what each entry meant. If you're taking accounting, then, there's a FREE tutorial on the Balance Sheet at www.College-Cram.com/library/study-accounting.htm that you need to see. (It's near the top of the page.) Click the "To Learn More" button to bring up a tabbed breakdown of the four sections (Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Summary). By mousing over the tabs and labels, you get detailed explanations of each line item. This is some very useful stuff.

3. OK, this one isn't positive, but I ran across this and you have to laugh. Check out the OnLine Study Guide for chapter 12 on this publisher site. First of all, the chapter name you picked doesn't match the one on the screen. Second, it has four links for #12-16, each of which has exactly the same picture. How is that helpful? Third, it has four links for #12-13 -- not only are they all dead links, but someone brilliantly noted on the page that two are dead. (Was fixing them too much to ask?)

All this from a publisher that supposed to be helping you pass Art History. Yeah, right.


P.S. Woah, this is cool. I went back and tried to trick the program in #1 above by giving two equations that were almost but not quite parallel (3x-2y=8, -3x+2y=5). The bugger figured it out, and told me the lines weren't parallel but 'nearly so.' Impressive!