The economics of tropical farm management / J.P. Makeham & L.R. Malcolm.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986.Description: iv, 178 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 97805213136
  • 0521313678 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630.681 22 MAK
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Contents;

1. Target audience
Questions

2.Farm management
The place of farm management
What makes a good farm manager
Resource management
Decision making
Application to various types of farm
Substances and semi-substance farms
Problems and decisions
Human relation in farm management
Management and labour
Questions

3.Farm analysis and planning
Human
Financial
Questions

4.Principles of production
Introduction
Technical principles
Economic principles
Question

5.Costs and returns
costs in theory
Cost in practice
Farm returns
Questions

6.Farm profits,financial statement and records
Profit
Presentation of financial results-farm financial statements[accounts]
Return on capital
Records
Questions

7.Cash flow and budget
Introduction
Comparison of actual budgeted returns
Cash development budget
Food and cash flow budget
Question

8.Gross margin
Introduction
Calculating activity gross margins
Gross margin for crop
Gross margins for animals
Use of gross margins of planning
Application to semi-subsistence farms
The use and usefulness of gross margins for planning
Question

9.Time is memory
Introduction
Compounding and discounting
Inflation
Interest rates
Discounting in theory and in practice.


Glossary : p. 172-174 . _ index : p. 175-178

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