Does any body have a layman's explanation of Shelf-Space Funds?
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It's when a funds will pay the broker for “shelf-space” to build distribution and fund advertising for the fund.\n\nThink of a broker, AIG for example, as a big supermarket.  A decade ago, when the first of today’s mutual fund supermarkets came into existence, it was a transforming moment for the industry. No longer did investors pay their own commissions or transaction costs when they shopped there. Rather, the managers whose funds were effectively listed for sale would pay for what came to be known as “shelf space.”
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You can buy stock/mutul funds/CDs. But, it depends on when in the future do you need the money.
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it depends on the library, usually only a few cents a day, and probably more for cds and videos than for books...i would call your local library's circulation desk to find out. at least you'll know the money is going to a good cause!
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Hands up how many people here have used all of their 1gb allowance?\nOh good none of you\n\nI'd be surprised if I've actually used more than 20mb of mine. I remember when YM was initially only 1mb (and Hotmail's big selling point is that it offered TWO mb!)... then 5, and 11.... and stayed at 11 for donkeys years before suddenly jumping, after the arrival of the dreaded GMail.\n\nIt's known as a quota system, where you don't actually have a fixed space on the disc, your stuff just all goes into a folder or an archive file that's part of a big distributed storage array. They may offer you a maximum of 1gb, but the discs they buy and the average space allocation per user is based on some statistical analysis to give a rough guessimate predicition of what a typical person might burn through in a year. Call it 20mb, with some people using a few hundred megs, others barely making it to one. Your space requirements have now been slashed by a factor of fifty and you can get 25,000 users into one of those mammoth hard discs.\n\nThey could, theoretically speaking, offer you nearly unlimited storage (certainly several terabytes out of the *enormous* total) and still have a workable system.... if everyone was honest. The 1Gb limit is to stop the usual conceptual Handful Of Miscreants abusing it and leaving no space for anyone else.\n\nBesides, and especially in business terms, storage space is dirt cheap these days. How else would I be able to buy a brand new 20gb mp3 player for £90? A server spec hard disc of about 75gb (high-speed ones like that are smaller for some reason) is only about £50 these days. If, once again, you assume that to be about 3750 people, that's not even 2p per user. They can make that back with a couple of banner ads that the user sees on logging in. Job's a goodun.\n\n(Same reason, really, that Google can offer their "Maps" and "Earth" services, or any online seach engine such as Yahoo can work these days... if you have even a comparitively paltry ten grand to blow (might have got you, in the early 90s, the storage space represented now by a couple of Blu-Ray discs) you can afford such a mass of hard drive space, and the rather simple fileservers to manage it, that satellite mapping the entire planet at 10 centimetre resolution becomes more of an administrative than a technical problem)
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hi there, welcome on board. \nIf you are willing to read up then there's a big chance you'll find an answer here somewhere:\nhttp://finance.ebookorama.com/\nhttp://credit-cards.ebookorama.com/\nI have had a few happy people coming back to me after posting the links so hopefully it'll do your trick!  if it does help you don't forget to give me best answer :-)
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That's like asking "How many socks can I own?".  You can have as many as you have room for.  Big fluffy socks of higher quality will take up more space in your drawer than thin cheap socks (big song files will take up more room than small ones).  I have over 4000 "socks" in my "drawer".
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Here ya go!\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm\n\nMake them into flash cards on index cards and go from there.
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Odd-Lot stores, Job-Lot stores, 99cent stores, Salvation army stores, Thrift shop, Loot magazine, Craig's list, garage sales, fleet markets...neighbors moving out sales...\n\nand $500 Certficates of deposit bought at the bank every month...one year duration...and renewed at the end of the year. When the year end rolls around and the first comes due...add it to the $500 you use to purchase your CD's and make it $1000 and purchase a new $1000 CD. At the end of five years you will be so used to putting money away it would have become as natural to you as breathing...and it won't even dawn on you that $2500 is available to you at the end of each month. That is called paying yourself. And is independent of your Keogh, Roth IRA's, 401k's and social security money or anything resembling an annuity. It is all these things rolled into one and the emotional satisfaction of the discipline and the fact that you control exactly the money you put away...cannot be beat by anything a broker could swindle you...er...convince you into investing.\nNow that's frugality in my book.\n\nOh, yes...I have no credit cards either. Debit cards take their place. Can only spend what I have. Erma Bombeck is to others what Suzie Ormon is to the frugal.
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FIFO, LIFO, and Average Cost generally refer to merchandise, especially food inventory. I'm not sure it really applies to stocks.
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Try Storehouse Financial's website.\nwww.storehousefinancial.com\n\nThis wreaks of advertisement, why would you ask such a basic search related question????  Are you marketing this service or do you work for this group????
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1).  What are you adjusting your notes payable for?  Interest Expense?  Current Maturity?  Interest Payable?\n\n2).  When was the "timber tract" purchased?  What is the useful life of the "timer tract"?  What method of depreciation are you using?  Just because you have a salvage value does not mean you fully depreciate it in the current year.  After you get the correct depreciation (using the above information), then you would debit depreciation expense and credit accumulated depreciation.
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I need more info to answer this question for you.\n\nAre you referring to hard disk space?
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I wouldn't advise asking for an investment advise on Yahoo Answers or any other board.  Consider consulting a professional when it comes to such decisions unless you have money to throw away in which case just buy hisc and hope for the best :)\n\nAleks
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I used this story when trying to teach a group of retired, and very confused people, how to use a PC.\n\nA little librarian has to get all the information together each time you open a program.  After some time adding new programs and using old ones the librarian has made a mess of the whole library.  When you go to open a program he's got to run around here and there to find the pieces of the program he needs for you to use it.  So once in a while (I do it every day) he has to fix it all up, get all the papers together and file the programs away in alphabetical order so that when you need him to open a program or do anything he can easily pick it off the shelf and it's ready to go.\n\nDefragmenting is organizing all the information on your hard drive and contiguous files are files that are in alphabetical order, nice and neat.
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You can fund any investment by redirecting your purchasing dollars on ever thing you buy through your own store, Then you simply isolate the money that is normally retail profit in your own bank account. This take time, but is is money your are already used to spending. In the process you will create a substantial income on the side because you have a store that your friends can shop at. Email us for more info. We are here to help.
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Its not something that can be explained completely in a small space, but the basic idea is that you're carefully keeping track of all money coming in and going out.  \n\nYou might consider taking a class at your local community college if you want to learn some of the techniques that have been used in the past.\n\nBut, the easiest way of doing it in the modern age is to get a bookkeeping computer software program like QuickBooks, which is the standard for most small businesses in America.  Best of luck to you.
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It can help with anything that has to do with the library, or whatever is being improved. If a library or organization has badly damaged furniture, replace it as part of the improvement. Dilapidated walls, fix them. The money is for improvements,after all. That's my take on it, and I've lived in California, all my life.