capital expenditure

(noun)

Funds spent by a company to acquire of upgrade an asset.

Related Terms

  • organizing
  • controller
  • localization
  • delegation

(noun)

Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long-term asset.

Related Terms

  • organizing
  • controller
  • localization
  • delegation

Examples of capital expenditure in the following topics:

  • Defining Productivity

    • The biggest gains often come from adopting new technologies or concepts, which requires capital expenditures for new equipment, computers, or software.
  • Culture-Specific Nuances of Human Resources Management

    • Human resources management (HRM), or the strategic initiatives that govern human capital within a company, are one of the central components of any business.
    • Indeed, human capital is quite often one of the highest capital expenditures business anticipate.
    • As a result, analyzing both the way in which the internal human resources (HR) department at a given business approaches international hires, alongside the external consideration of the way in which international companies pursue human capital, is a critical strategic and competitive consideration within most industries.
    • Coupling a rapidly globalizing economy with these advantages places significant pressure on HR to find effective and efficient ways to maximize human capital investments across new, and sometimes unfamiliar, cultures.
    • The HR department is responsible not only for recruiting and onboarding, but also in creating a synergistic environment for all human capital on a macro level .
  • Fulfilling the Organizing Function

    • For instance, a production manager may have the line authority to decide whether and when a new machine is needed, but a controller with functional authority requires that a capital expenditure proposal be submitted first, showing that the investment in a new machine will yield a minimum return.
  • Operations-Management Tools

    • Lean is a production theory that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the customer wasteful, and thus a target for elimination.
    • The overarching theme is simply to minimize time expenditures on behalf of employees and maximize output with the same amount of input.
  • Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Measures include amount of expenditures or investment, degree of executive engagement, impact of implementation, and CSR outcomes relative to objectives.
  • The Importance of Leverage

    • Management roles are defined by the capacity to motivate and leverage human capital in the organization to achieve efficiency in operations.
    • By effectively combining this motivational understanding with the expectations and responsibilities of managing employees, managers effectively leverage human capital to achieve high levels of efficiency and employee satisfaction.
    • A business with high liquid capital may invest in information structure to reduce the cost of production and increase automation.
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship

    • Many high-value entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding (seed money) to raise capital for building the business.
  • The Importance of Productivity

    • Productivity is the ratio of total output to one unit of total input; high productivity means larger capital gains.
  • Management in Different Types of Business: For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Mutual-Benefit

    • Non-profits' lack of free-flowing capital means they rarely have the resources to staff the organization sufficiently.
    • A mutual is therefore owned by its members and run for their benefit; it has no external shareholders to pay in the form of dividends, and as such does not usually seek to generate large profits or capital gains.
  • Trends in Organizational Diversity

    • To capitalize on ethical and economic benefits, businesses are promoting increased diversity in the workplace.
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