If you buy a company for lets say 10 million, and they have 50 million in inventory, can you just sell the stuff and fire everyone and get a 40 million profit?
215762
Yes you can, this is called corporate raiding and it was done a lot in the mid to late 80's to the horror of employees and customers.\n\nThe original owners or stockholders will get the proceeds of any sale, the buyer will purchase the inventory and debt of the company. All its assets would then belong to the new owner(s).\n\nThis is where valuation comes in to the picture. Professionals charge a great deal of money to affix a price tags on a business. Other times the market does, like GM. Currently its assets are worth a lot more than its stock, or market capitalization. If someone had enough money to buy 51% of its stock, perhaps more because of regulations built into the company's bylaws, it could liquidate the company and rake in some major profits at the expense of the business.
439768
The one that is successful is the one selling the lists. So, yes- it is possible to make money with them. Just my opinion.
40379
It depends on what you're trying buy.  Some have a minimum amount.  Others don't.  My cousin bought his new baby daughter one share in a blue chip stock.  So it is possible.
677112
I don't think whether you still work for them or not is an issue. Whether the company is publicly-traded or not might be an issue. How long the options are good for is definitely an issue. \n\nIf you think the options are worth 50 times their price, and you can cash them in, then I'd do so.
271417
People believe what they want to.  \nThe earlier answer for Kmart from Nikomat is completely wrong.  Kmart stock was selling at 10 cents but that stock became worthless.  The company canceled that stock and left shareholders out to dry.  They then reissued new stock after the bankruptcy and that is the stock that rose.\nNot every company decides to leave shareholders up in the air.  Some will issue new stock in place of the old, some will give so many shares of new stock for old.\nIf you pay less than a dollar for the stock and it starts going up you can make a bundle but like any stock you take your chances.  It's great when you make money but you should never invest what you can't afford to lose.
260109
Yup.\nQuite easy.\n\nThough if they are willing to give up 30 bucks, they can have someone ELSE do it for them.\n\nlazy Ba$t4rds.
615149
Why would you want to sell to someone who has no need for your product.  Money from sales comes from repeat business.  If business has no need for your product, then you will not get repeat business.  \n\nThe cost of the orginal sale is usually more than lthe profit from the orginal sale.  Unless you consider your time has no value.
240651
Well, your stock is not worthless, its worth $3 per share right now (and thats up from just $2 per share a few days ago), you can simply open an account and sell it if you want.\n\nNo telling what the stock will do from here.  They filled a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization), not Chapter 7 (liquidation), meaning they are trying to cut costs, sell whatever they can, and emerge from the bankruptcy.  When (if) they emerge they will try to give the stockholders as much value/ownbership of the new company as they can, but no telling what they will be able to give you (if anything).  \n\nThey may say we had to give 90% ownership to other people to get enough money to reopen, or they may be able to get money to reopen with less (or more) of the company given away, again no way to tell (or they may never get the money to reopen and they will eventually end up liquidating the company and then you'll almost certainly get nothing)\n\nSo, you can just sell what you have for 3$ per share (as of today), or you may want to say what the heck lets roll the dice and see what happens, and hold on to the stock (realizing down the road you could get alot more or alot less than that 3$ per share, again very hard to say).\n\nGood luck with it.\n\nBy the way, here is the link to your stocks current sell price.\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DCNAQ.PK
287463
You can make spreadsheets with all of your inventory, but you would have to manually take out items as you sell them, as well as add them when you get in shipments.  My mom's business does it that way for inventory, but for accounting she uses quickbooks.
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Accounting always gives me a headache.\n\nThis is probably wrong, but it seems like you could just calculate next year's revenue as 935M, so the COGS is 374M.\n\nThe current inventory turnover is 340M/40M = 8.5.\nThe future inventory turnover is going to be 10.\n\nHence, 10 = 374M / inventory(next year).\n\nInventory next year = 37.4M
360906
Yes you can, you can even do both via the Internet by using a members only site.  Depending on the state your in will depend on how much information you need from the retailers that you sell to.  You will have to keep records of their tax numbers for sure but some states require more.  The retail site you will have to worry about sales tax for orders from your state only.  Yes it can be very profitable but you need to check and see how your prices compare to other wholesalers.
521956
Find companies that make the items you are wanting to sell and purchase it from them wholesale. Then resell it.
24813
You would not belive the things i come up with.If I give you the product to make would you share in the profit? Every thing would have to be legal. write me
584176
No. It would not. Go ahead and do it. When I started I put all my money into one stock--10 shares of Household Finance.  You have to start somewhere and sometime.  Now is a better time than a month ago.   But next month might be a better time still or even next year.
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Probably zero.  If the company truly has no assets, it is likely that it will be treated as having liquidated for federal income tax purposes.  Even if it has not been liquidated, there are tax rules that are designed to make it difficult or impossible to derive a benefit from buying a company that has nothing but a NOL.  I doubt you will find a well-informed buyer who is willing to take a chance that the NOL will be usable in the future.\n\nIf you (or whoever the present owner is) were to start up a new business in the company, and assuming it is not considered to have liquidated, then you might be able to use the loss carryforward.
496665
You could make a substitution of cash for the stocks. I'm not sure you can do the substitution of cash for stock that is owned by an LLC. I think that this would be considered a sale by the LLC of the stock for the cash. You could probably get around this by distributing the stocks from the LLC to the members and do the substitution. The distribution of stock by the LLC to each member should not trigger a tax. The members would take the LLC basis in the stock.\nThis is a fairly complex transaction so I would recommend a session with a CPA or tax attorney to verify the answer.
581129
Some companies do allow you to buy stock directly from them. They use Direct Purchase Plans (DPP) and a Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIP).