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Over the years I have found a common situation among those who are owners of SMEs: the boat went completely bandaged eyes, ie manage the company without taking into account the state’s basic financial information that keeps our business, conforming only to see how much was the end of the month in our checking account. If there is enough, okay, but more often the opposite case, when there was enough money and worst of all, you do not know why.

Although much of the financial management depends on knowing how to use our common sense, to have information reliable financial and updated, can be the difference between taking a good and a bad decision. A good decision will make our business stronger, one bad decision could lead to bankruptcy. For this reason, if we are to some extent responsible for the management of economic resources of our company, it is essential to know the basics of management financial. Here is the goal of this series: to provide the employer’s basic concimientos the subject, all those business owner should know.

The famous accounting equation
For centuries, the accounting is based on the following rule (see illustration): The assets are all assets and rights owned by the company. Examples are: cash, checking accounts, accounts receivable, furniture, automobiles, land, and so on. The liabilities represent all debts and obligations to the company payroll, wages payable, debt providers, bank loans, taxes payable, and so on. ‘s equity is the money it provided the owner or partners to start the company and start trading, but other contributions that have made ​​partners plus utilities that have generated in prior periods have not been removed, plus the current period earnings.

Now, the formula works this way: all the assets (or investments) that have or have done business (such as land) were financed through liabilities or stockholders’ equity (also called sources). That is why the equation will always work, because whenever you want to acquire an asset, it will be through a debt (liabilities) or the capital of the company. Thus, if the asset increases, so will the liability or equity as he had to have been financed in one of these two sources, and vice versa. For this reason, many assets have not synonymous with strength, as if these assets were financed with debt and debt is beyond our ability to pay, suffer a liquidity crisis and probably violates our commitments.

You also must believe that your product sells the world’s number one – yourself!. I once asked, “How can we both be able to sell products in the world’s number one?” The answer is that every person is unique. No one else in the world who like me or you. Although it may be considered selfish, I acknowledge that no matter what I sell – homes, computers, real estate or automobile, I will remain the number one selling product in the world. I would feel this way if I was a certified public accountant, lawyer or doctor. No matter what I do for a living, I’ll rack my brains to think that is number one. If you do not think like that, there will be no one else could think of me like that too

I think it’s important for you to know that you are unique. Once you know, you will realize how many changes are made in determining whether the prospect will buy your products. Let’s face it, each of us has a monopoly in the combination of the unique nature of our own.

For proper implementation of configuration management is essential to the use of automated tools to support activities that help reduce development time and reducing product defects. Typically, the tools cover the main activities of configuration management, considering the identification, control and reporting. They are easily located by searching and configuration management tools.

At present, the content management tools are integrated into the group management tools for ease configuration and maintenance of information and components that are required for this type of product. The dynamics of these developments requires an effective control of versions and product development.

Finally the use of a tool or another depends on factors related to organization, process, product type, budget and mainly that is easy to use to obtain the expected benefits. There is enough information and support in the community of CM may be useful to properly apply these concepts to business necessity.

Configuration Management is the discipline essential to the development and operation of a product that ensures its integrity throughout the life cycle.

Configuration Management (CM) includes all activities related to the management of the development of products throughout their life cycle. This requires identifying, organizing and controlling the product changes in order to maximize productivity while minimizing errors and improving quality. Proper use of these concepts is essential for product development and customer satisfaction, so that enterprises should pay special attention to them.

Configuration Management as a process

Configuration Management process to identify the product configuration to systematically control changes to it and maintain its integrity throughout the project life cycle. The identification and documentation includes control, data and elements of the product.

Control efforts should ensure that all changes made to the configuration components, once they have been approved, made in a controlled manner at all times be known what is the current version of each. By this control facilitates the identification and integration of the configuration components that make up the deliverables of the project.

Some common problems that lead to the adoption of CM are:
* Can not find the latest version of a component.
* Fixed bugs in previous releases appear again.
* It is not known which components comprising the product delivered to the customer.
* The integration of the product takes too long.
* Incorrect versions of the components are tested.

In the CMMI model these activities are covered in the process area of the same name that is intended precisely to ensure the integrity of the product during its development. ITIL also covers configuration management from the point of view of operation of the service.