Friday, 3 May 2013

CREATE YOUR COMPANY (INSTRUCTIONS)

INSTRUCTIONS

COVER
INDEX OF CONTENTS

1) THE BRAND
- Brandname
- Location: Country, City, in the countryside, in an indsutrial park, in a financial building...
- Logotype
- Motto and slogan
(2 pages as maximum)

2) ECONOMICAL ACTIVITY
-Goods and services: Explanation about what you produce and offer
- Factors of production:
                      - Natural resources: Description of the natural resources and sources of energy you use
                      - Capital resources: Machinery, financial capital (income), buildings
                      - Human resources: Posts and workers
- Type of Economy depending of your location: Mixed, Marked or Planned
- Analysis of the market economy: Supplies, demands, prices of the products
- Economy Agents: How comapnies, families and the State intervene in your company as buyers, suppliers, with financial support...
- Labour Force: Number of workers, qualifications, salaries, schedules of work, working conditions, paid holidays...
- Presence of your company into the Globalization: What is the relationship between the company and the planet?

- The annual budget: Here you have to make two things
                    - A budget following ONLY the Itemsin the table below, (initial income 1 million Euro)
               
BUDGET
INCOME INITIAL AMOUNT OF CAPITAL YOU HAVE
EXPENSES

Salaries
Investments



THE CAPITAL YOU SPEND


The money your workers earn working for you
The capital you use to improve your machinery/RID (Research+Innovation+Development)


SURPLUS (not mandatory) MONEY LEFT AFTER YOUR EXPENSES
EXPECTED REVENUE NEXT YEAR FORECAST OF REVENUE
EXPECTED TOTAL OF BENEFITS SURPLUS + EXPECTED REVENUE


                  - A text where you will update the initial budget with the changes regularly uploaded on this blog                
                    and affecting ALL your companies

Three pages as minimum

3) MY COMPANY AND THE PRIMARY SECTOR
Here you have two options to follow, READ THE TABLE BELOW TO KNOW WHAT TO DO

MY COMPANY BELONGS TO THE PRIMARY SECTOR
MY COMPANY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE PRIMARY SECTOR
- Type of activity: Agriculture, live-stock farming, Mining, fishing, forestry...
- Physical Factor affecting your company
- Human factors affecting your company
-Depending of your company, you will follow:

- Define your relation with the primary sector in at least two of the situations below:
- Supplier or provider
- Buyer
- Vertical integration
- Horizontal intervention

-Continue reading to find your actual table of instructions

AGRICULTURE


- Structure of the space
- Farming systems
-Use of the water
- Variety of species
Utilisation of the soil
-Agricultural landscape
LIVESTOCK FARMING

-Type of livestock farming
-capital investment
-Labour
-Food and feeding methods
-mobility
FISHING


-Type of fishing
-Uses of the Sea
-Aqualture (?)




-Environmental consequences and corrective measures
-Continue reading to find the instructions to relate your company with the other two sectors



Three pages as minimum



4) MY COMPANY AND THE SECONDARY SECTOR
You have two options to follow again, READ THE TABLE BELOW TO KNOW WHAT TO DO


MY COMPANY BELONGS TO THE SECONDARY SECTOR
MY COMPANY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE SECONDARY SECTOR
-Type of activity: Industry or construction.
-Type of product: Finished or semi-finished
- Type of energy source you use and why.
- Human factors affecting your company
- Capital of the company: private/state/mixed, Individual/collective
-Type of industry: Heavy, Capital Goods, Light
- Description of your industrial space
- RDI and new materials
-Environmental consequences and corrective measures

- Define your relation with the secondary sector in at least two of the situations below:
- Supplier or provider
- Buyer
- Vertical integration
- Horizontal intervention

-Continue reading to find your actual table of instructions

-Continue reading to find the instructions to relate your company with the other two sectors



Three pages as minimum


5) MY COMPANY AND THE TERTIARY SECTOR

You have two options to follow again, READ THE TABLE BELOW TO KNOW WHAT TO DO

MY COMPANY BELONGS TO THE TERTIARY SECTOR
MY COMPANY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE TERTIARY SECTOR
-Type of service: Trade, Transport, Tourism or Media
- Management: Public/private
- Function: Social/administrative/financial/cultural/business/information and communication/commercial services/leisure
- Depending of your company

- Define your relation with the secondary sector in at least two of the situations below:
- Supplier or provider
- Buyer
- Vertical integration
- Horizontal intervention

-Continue reading to find your actual table of instructions

TRADE

- domestic trade
- Types of domestic trade
- Foreign Trade



TRANSPORT

- Overland
- River
- Sea
- Air
TOURISM

- Definition
-Factor affecting tourism
- Type


MEDIA

- Definition
- Type of Media
-Environmental consequences and corrective measures
-Continue reading to find the instructions to relate your company with the other two sectors



Three pages as minimum

6) CONCLUSION
1/2 page as maximum


NOTES: 
The instructions rigurously follow the structure of the units 6, 7 and 8 from the textbook
You can use your Computer, Don't copy-paste information from real companies, I will notice

+ Early delivery
+ Use of recycled paper
don't be scarce in words, develop your assessements and quotations in EVERY CASE ABOVE
Be as original as you can, nothing is forbidden, make business, be creative and open your mind

This project will count 2pts of the final term's mark
You will make an oral presentation on June last week of class (1pt of the final term mark)