Tak Ingin Karier Anda berakhir dengan Pemecatan? Jangan pernah melakukan hal-hal berikut.

Tak ingin karier Anda berakhir dengan pemecatan? Jangan pernah melakukan hal-hal berikut.

Tujuh Alasan Pemecatan Paling Populer

1. Tidak disiplin
Setiap perusahaan memiliki peraturan masing-masing. Ada yang mengharuskan datang pukul 08.00, ada juga yang mewajibkan memakai seragam. Jika tidak bisa tunduk pada peraturan perusahaan, maka besar sekali kemungkinan Anda untuk dipecat.

Pelajari dengan baik peraturan perusahaan sejak awal penandatanganan kontrak kerja. Jika memang ada yang tidak sesuai dengan nilai-nilai yang Anda anut, sebaiknya bicarakan sejak awal. Jangan sampai Anda justru dianggap sebagai karyawan yang membangkang alias tidak patuh.

2. Tidak fleksibel
Tugas Anda memang sudah ditentukan sesuai dengan jabatan yang telah diberikan, namun terkadang tak tertutup kemungkinan Anda masih harus mengerjakan hal yang lain (demi mendukung tugas utama). Menolak pekerjaan tambahan bukanlah hal yang baik. Itu akan memberikan kesan bahwa Anda pemalas, tak bisa bekerjasama juga tak patuh pada perintah atasan.

3. Malas-malasan
Di kantor Anda lebih sering buka akun jejaring sosial ketimbang kerja, lebih sering tidur siang ketimbang berdiskusi soal pekerjaan. Tak hanya itu, Anda bahkan sering meninggalkan meja kerja tanpa keterangan jelas. Jika ini terus berlanjut, Anda memberi alasan kuat bagi atasan untuk memecat Anda.

4. Koruptor
Tak ada alasan untuk memaafkan seorang koruptor kan?

5. Ratu/Raja Drama
Anda selalu membesar-besarkan konflik dan masalah, baik masalah pribadi atau kantor. Tak jarang Anda membuat kehidupan kantor layaknya sinetron yang sarat drama. Suasana kantor jadi tak nyaman karena Anda. Jangan heran jika surat pemecatan Anda terima.

6. Pelecehan seksual
Pelaku pelecehan seksual tak bisa dimaafkan, termasuk di lingkungan kantor.

7. Tak bisa beradaptasi dengan lingkungan
Dalam bekerja, Anda harus beradaptasi dengan lingkungan. Tak sedikit pekerjaan Anda yang akan bersinggungan dengan divisi lain. Jika Anda tak bisa beradaptasi dan menjadi karyawan yang individual, kemungkinan besar nama Anda akan muncul di daftar teratas orang-orang yang akan dipecat. Kemampuan bekerjasama dan adaptasi adalah salah satu kunci sukses dalam bekerja.

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6 Ways To Protect Your Business Against Supply Chain Interruptions

It seems like the world is experiencing an increase in natural and man-made disasters large enough to disrupt supply chains. If your company is part of a supply chain, you need to have contingency plans for coping with breaks in deliveries of parts or finished goods.

For example, this year's  disastrous Japanese earthquake and tsunami wrecked supply chains around the world. Japan exports electronic parts used in everything from copy machines to automobiles. Both domestic and foreign automakers are just now starting to recover from the impact of shortages and price hikes. Lead times for many parts are still measured in weeks and months. If your company supplies goods into the automotive supply chain, chances are your business has slowed as a result of the industry-wide issues associated with the earthquake. Closer to home, in 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Ike dramatically affected Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi. Many commodity products that flow through the port of New Orleans couldn’t get to their final destination by their due date. More critically, building materials and supplies needed to house and feed the millions of displaced people were diverted from other parts of the country to the Gulf Coast. I have a client that manufactures mattresses. They have a plant in Texas and warehouses in New Orleans and Houston. After the hurricanes, mattresses were suddenly in high demand to replace the ones destroyed in the storms. One of the materials that mattresses are made of is a high-density foam available from only a few suppliers -- who couldn't meet the spike in demand. This created a supply chain nightmare for U.S. bedding manufacturers, driving up prices some 200 percent for about six months. Similar stories were repeated in other industries, including lumber, sheetrock, and other home-building materials as well as consumer necessities. How your company is affected by a disaster is largely determined by whether your company is in the hardest hit areas or simply a customer of companies that are in hard-hit areas. After Katrina, my mattress manufacturer client immediately moved almost all its New Orleans employees to Texas, housed them and had them work in the factory which went to a 24/7 schedule to keep up with the orders they were getting from the hard-hit areas. The company did lose much of the inventory in its New Orleans warehouse to looters. Management made the decision to truck inventory from the Central Texas manufacturing facility directly to Southern Louisiana because their New Orleans facility needed substantial repairs. And due to hikes in the price of foam, they had to pass on substantial price increases to their retail furniture and mattress store customers.  Given these kinds of disruptions, many large companies are starting to rethink JIT inventory. Small companies that are part of big company supply chains are now being asked to stock more finished goods ready to ship. Here are a few tips to help you cope with supply chain disruptions: If your business is in an area that is prone to large natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes) you should have a contingency plan to move your operation quickly to a location outside the affected area. Telephone and Internet changes are made easier if you use an Internet-based IP phone system.
Because hurricanes offer more warning than other kinds of disasters, it is much easier to institute a hurricane disaster plan. If your company operates in a hurricane-prone area you should formulate a written plan to mitigate losses and potentially move your operation.
 Quickly assess the effects of the disaster on your suppliers. You may need to have back up suppliers in place as a part of your contingency planning.
Assess the effects of the disaster on your customers. If your customers are significantly concentrated in the affected area, you may need to figure out where you can transfer sales to non-affected areas. You may also want to help your customers recover so they can again be viable for buying your goods.
If you buy from suppliers, try to have several sources located in differnt areas, so that a single disaster can't interrupt your flow of raw materials or parts.
Most importantly, make sure any contract you engage in has a “force majeure” clause. This provision allows any party to the contract to deviate from the terms of the agreement in the case of an act of God or man-made disaster. Most larger suppliers will already have such a provision in their agreements.
Sam Thacker is a partner in Austin Texas, based Business Finance Solutions. You can reach him via email at sam@lesliethacker.com or on Twitter @SMBFinance.

Source : http://www.allbusiness.com/finance/16188706-1.html

KPK Harus Bisa Beri Efek Jera Pelaku Korupsi

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - Wakil Ketua DPR, Pramono Anung, tak mempermasalahkan jika KPK hendak menjadikan tersangka kasus korupsi Wisma Atlet dan Kemendiknas, Angelina Sondakh (Angie) menjadi whistle blower atau justice collaborator. Menurut Pramono, yang terpenting dilakukan KPK saat ini adalah bagaimana menekan frekuensi, niat, serta memberikan efek jera kepada para pelaku tindak pidana korupsi tersebut. "(Yang terpenting) bagaimana persoalan yang menyangkut tindak pidana korupsi, bukan hanya pada Angie tapi terhadap semuanya, baik itu intensitas, freksuensinya, keberaniannya itu, bisa menurun," kata Pramono di Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Selasa (1/5/2012). Pramono merasa miris, karena selama tiga periode pergantian pimpinan KPK, jumlah korupsi tidak pernah menurun. Justru yang terjadi adalah para pelaku lihai, canggih, variatif, dan berkualitas dalam memainkan modus korupsinya. "Sekarang makin canggih memanfaatkan peluang itu," ujarnya. Dengan demikian, lanjut Pramono, seharusnya yang dilakukan KPK, yakni dengan memberikan hukuman atau jeratan pasal kepada para pelaku tanpa pandang bulu, terutama jabatannya. Menurut Pramono, selama ini aksi KPK dalam menangani kasus korupsi yang melibatkan pejabat tak sebanding dengan bombastisnya pemberitaan hingga berbulan-bulan. Dan mata masyarakat makin terbelalak kala si pelaku korupsi itu justru mendapatkan hukuman ringan. "Beritanya (kasus besar) itu bisa berbulan-bulan, tetapi action-nya (aksi) kecil, penganganannya tidak maksimal," sindirnya. Realitas perlakuan proses hukum ini, lanjut Pramono, lebih kurang sama atau justru timpang dengan para pelaku pelanggar pidana ringan, seperti maling sandal. "Kita harus (bertanggung jawab) memperbaiki hukum ini bersama-sama," imbuhnya.

Sumber: http://id.berita.yahoo.com/kpk-harus-bisa-beri-efek-jera-pelaku-korupsi-092812340.html

Accounting Basics

Accounting — often called the language of business — is the process of recording, classifying, reporting and analyzing financial data. And while the accounting requirements of every business vary, all organizations need a way to keep track of their money.

Unfortunately, there's very little that's intuitive about accounting. Many small businesses hire accountants to set up and keep their books. Other companies use accounting software like QuickBooks, CheckMark Multi-Ledger, and M.Y.O.B. Accounting and keep their accounting functions in house.

It's All About Balance
Using a system of debits and credits, called double-entry accounting, accountants use a general ledger to track money as it flows in and out of a business. They record each financial transaction on a balance sheet, which provides a snapshot of a business's financial condition. Accountants record every financial transaction in a way that keeps the following equation balanced:

Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity (Capital)

The Accounting Cycle
Accounting is based on the periodic reporting of financial data. The basic accounting cycle includes:

- Recording business transactions. Businesses keep a daily record of transactions in sales journals, cash-receipt journals or cash-disbursement journals.
- Posting debits and credits to a general ledger. A general ledger is a summary of all business journals. An up-to-date general ledger shows current information about accounts payable, accounts receivable, owners' equity and other accounts.
- Making adjustments to the general ledger. General-ledger adjustments let businesses account for items that don't get recorded in daily journals, such as bad debts, and accrued interest or taxes. By adjusting entries, businesses can match revenues with expenses within each accounting period.
- Closing the books. After all revenues and expenses are accounted for, any net profit gets posted in the owners' equity account. Revenue and expense accounts are always brought to a zero balance before a new accounting cycle begins.
- Preparing financial statements. At the end of a period, businesses prepare financial reports — income statements, statements of capital, balance sheets, cash-flow statements and other reports — that summarize all of the financial activity for that period.

The Importance of Financial Statements
At the end of a period — either annually or more frequently, depending on the length of a business's accounting cycle — accountants create financial statements that show the financial health (or decline) of a business.

Many people inside and outside a company use the information found in financial statements. Business owners and managers use the data in financial statements to chart the course of their companies, project revenues and expenses, monitor cash flow, keep tabs on costs and plan for the future. Present and prospective employees also want to see their employers' financial performance.

Stockholders and investors closely examine financial statements to check a company's performance. They want to compare a business's financial statements with those of other companies to guide their investment choices. Bankers look at a company's most recent financial statements when they make lending decisions.

Financial statements also make it easier to for accountants to prepare tax returns and report financial information to the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, so many business partners, investors, and other interested parties rely on your these documents that it's important to get a handle on all the common financial reports your business will be expected to produce.

Source: http://www.allbusiness.com/professional-services/accounting-tax-auditing/6623321-1.html#axzz1vSkDGXY4