IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2
BUSINESSES AND FACTORIES
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Running a profitable factory is only half your job as an Industrialist. You are also the owner of Newbod Enterprises and that involves running the actual business. You will end up with a string of factories, all of them (you hope) making money for the business. Looking at the income and expenditure figures for your factories will enable you to sell off the unprofitable ones.
The business itself has revenue income and expenditure figures, which are the true measure of how well you are doing as a boss. The business display shows figures for income and expenditure, which is operating money coming in and out as the factories buy inputs, pay workers and sell the finished product. It also shows capital income and expenditure which is the buying and selling of capital assets like factories and depots; only the figures for the current day are shown. Both types of income and expenditure affect the working capital, that is, the number of groats the business has in the bank.
The business also has a book value, which is calculated each day when the game fires up after the reset. It consists of the cash in the business plus the cost of all the factories (2 meg each) and depots (1 meg each). Goods stored in the depots or in factory storage are not counted, neither are any enhancements you may have made to factories and depots. The book value is important because when you float the company on the stock exchange at your next promotion, the sale price of the shares will be based on the book value.
Businesses run on accounting cycles which last 7 days. The end of the cycle is when the greedy taxman takes his cut. The rate for Sol is a swingeing 20% of the profits for the cycle. Ouch! And no, you don't get any tax rebates if you happen to make a loss. This rate applies even if you have built factories outside of Sol - since your company is registered on Earth, the taxman isn't going to let you get away with that excuse. There are no offshore tax havens in Fed DataSpace.
The business display reminds you how long to go until the end of the cycle.
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