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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.
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Proper Money Calculus

In (business) economics one often has to deal with amounts of money at different points in time. One cannot say much about main economical issues without proper money calculus. Using PPR (Period Percentage Rate, any period, any rate) i.e. Discrete Compound Interest to rank investments is often deceptive. Financial tools...
CEO Advisory

PURCHASE versus LEASE

One can purchase an aeroplane for instance, at point in time zero, NOW, at the beginning of year 1. The purchase price is 150 million U.S.-dollar. The exchange rate today, U.S.-dollar related to the stated currency is 1 : 2, so 300 million money units are involved. The life-cycle of such...
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The Way to Easy Profit Measurement

See how you can solve the problem that is presented below. You need to have the scientifically correct P/L-account, with a view to managing a company. Who only knows unproven period profit and yield figures – at least for internal use – he / she is walking in the fog....
CEO Agenda

Here Is One Way to Deal With Risk

There are several ways to deal with risk. One of them is to include a risk factor into the capital costs. Starting with a risk-free rate some additions are made. Often only discrete rates are used, processing the basic rates and the additions. However, discrete rates do not give guaranteed...
CEO Agenda

Period Profit Measurement – NEW Formula

The world's best economists tried passionately to create the one and only right period profit calculation system, until the end of the 1970's, but the solution had not been found. The problem has been treated up to now as of little importance in the search after other (financial) leading indicators...
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