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Jan Jacobs

Jan Jacobs

Independent Researcher Business Economics
Jan Jacobs, an independent researcher in the field of business economics and author of The Profit Formula®: The Way to Easy Profit Measurement. I have more than 20 years of experience as a lecturer in business economics in higher day education and also in evening education for adults at SWOT (Stichting Wetenschappelijke Opleidingen Twente).

As a subject teacher, I have always been critical of what was in many Business Economics textbooks. I am the author of The Profit Formula®: The Way to Easy Profit Measurement, Budgetary Control: Scientific Perfection Business Economics, and Banking World Finance Credit Crises: Tips, Facts and Editorials about what happened and what needs to be done.


Jan Jacobs is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Amazon, and JBAdatabank.
Big Business

What Really Is Going On and Rendering Accounts of Businesses

The Link Between Management Accounting and Financial Accounting. Top-management is responsible for everything; for the annual accounts to be published too. Tell it like it is. People will guess at what is not explained. Regarding management accounting, responsible management is in need of the proven right net profit figures. Period...
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CEO Advisory

The One and Only Standard WACC

Cost of capital versus return on capital. There is much ado about WACC in economic literature. Although there are many different WACCs proclaimed by famous writers (according to incomplete definition, incorporating equity for instance, whereas equity is an accidental market value), they are not good starting-points. WACC changes in time,...
Big Business

Standard Unit Costs

Standard prices of the working-units of tangible fixed assets are, amongst other quantities, required input data in order to establish minimum product prices. However, this important data is not calculated exactly, but – if calculated in conformity with outdated textbooks in use worldwide – is consistently too low. In practice...
CEO Insider

Neither EVA® nor CVA®, but NVA

Ottosson & Weissenrieder published 'CVA, Cash Value Added – A new method for measuring financial performance', re SSRN_ID_58436. It was followed by Weissenrieder, re SSRN_ID_156288, on the question 'Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?' Shareholders have financial requirements on management's strategic decisions, that create value. Despite the importance of...
Big Business

Jacobs Matrix Surpasses Mobley Matrix™

Both Mobley Matrix™ and Jacobs Matrix acknowledge the unity of the balance sheets at the start and end of the period under consideration, the income statement for the period, as well as the cash statement for the period. Everything has to fit perfectly. However the major difference between Mobley Matrix™...
Big Business

The long-term is where we need to focus on

The long-term is where we need to focus on, to be prepared for the coming crisis in order to increase opportunities to survive. Only those (individuals as well as corporations) who have their finances (again) under control, can decide on own actions. The results of companies in crisis are boosted by...
Stats Gate

Measurement of Income Tax on Period Profit

Measurement of income tax on period profit, both tax to be paid (resulting from the fiscal accounts) and the one and only real tax burden in the internal documents (management accounting) as well as the tax costs in the published accounts (financial accounting), can all be calculated by means of...
CEO Insider

AC_DC and Breakeven Analysis

A single procedure suffices, just one and the same algorithm, both to elaborate various AC_DC calculations (AC: Absorption Costing or full costing. DC: Direct Costing or marginal costing or differential costing) and to perform breakeven analysis to the fullest extent. Breakeven analysis, under the assumption 'production volume is equal to...
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