report template"report template" Where can I get a template or example of a business report comparing the benefits of two potential offices?
I am trying to persuade my employers to move office and I have want to prepare a report about this in order to convince them. I want it to look professional. Are there any templates or examples you can direct me to?
Thanks
Normally there has to be some imperative 'overriding reason' why a business moves offices .. often this is related to staff level (outgrowing existing building = 'bursting at the seams' and no possibility of expanding at current location .. or the reverse .. staff levels dropping, no prospect of business improving so want to move to lower cost / small offices)
So 'step 1' is identify the 'imperatives' (reasons why)
Next, any employer is going to want to know the 'pay back period'
This assumes :-
a) The overall costs of the new location will be significantly less than the costs of the current location (or, if expanding and allowing for future growth, not significantly higher 'per head of existing staff')
b) The overall costs of moving (lost staff, lost business) can be measured... so payback period calculated
You biggest problem is going to be to estimate (b) .. plainly some staff will refuse to move and will have to be made Redundant (unless the new Office is less than about 15 miles away) and replacements recruited .. depending on the move (towards / away from London) the wages rates in the new area will be higher or lower = again you will have to estimate (plainly, even if the local rates are lower, you can't just reduce existing staff wages UNLESS they are paid a specific amount such as a 'London Allowance' that will no longer apply) - so you will need to base your estimates on Staff turnover (replacement staff will be paid the new rates)
Next you will need to address Business issues - what will be the cost of disruption to the business of making the move ? are you moving towards or away from you customer base - what effect will it have on sales / delivery costs ? will the new location help to gain or cause you to loose customers ?
Then there are the 'one off' costs - actual cost of moving (staff overtime ? transport, replacement fittings etc) .. not to mention things like the cost of terminating your existing lease (or selling the building - which might actually 'make money')
So my recommendation is to use PowerPoint to generate a slide show of 'bullet points' addressing each of the issues .. reasons why first, then financial, then business .. finally 'other' (such as 'quality of life' etc)
report builder"report builder" How can I get out of an Owner financed home if I need to move for a job relocation?
Been in the home for only 6 months. Builder/ Financer has broken contract and not completed all work stated by time stated. Will not answer mail, phone calls or emails, but cashes mortgage every month. He does not report to our credit and we dont want to hurt our credit, but need to find a way out.
You will not get out of a contract because of your job.
However, if you can prove the other party has breached the contract a judge may release you. you would need to file a breach of contract lawsuit.
Okay so I'm trying to write a PHP script extracting from MySQL where I take data from two days from one user and compare the days.
From a certain table (call it TableA), I first need to get the days (I have the PHP code to get the dates dynamically, making it a non-issue here). Essentially, a query selecting the user and a certain day's total (call it total) where the date is a certain day (say, '2010-05-04').
Then I need to run another one, same thing, except '2010-05-03'
Then I need to join these two at user, and report their totals from each day in one column. From there, I can perform the calculations I need to run the correct report.
So is it possible to store the result of a query in PHP for later use? Jeroonk:
Example
User Date # Bob 2010-05-04 200 Bob 2010-05-03 150 Jim 2010-05-04 432 Jim 2010-05-03 500
To become: Bob 150 200 Jim 500 432
Make sense?
Join the table with itself like so:
SELECT a.user AS user, a.total AS total1, b.total AS total2 FROM someTable a, someTable b WHERE a.user = b.user AND a.date = AND b.date =
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