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Industrial "Killboard"
Techie Kanenald:
I'm studying to be an Accountant IRL, so if you want me to do statements for you I can! :twisted:
tarunik:
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--- Quote from: orange on 11 Dec 2011, 19:41 ---Thoughts? Doesn't matter, not pewpew?
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Gettin' money is just as important as pewpew. Real talk.
A standard layout for reporting quarterly income would be a fun project, and I bet there'd be a lot of thankful corporations out there if they could have a competitive means of showing their financial progress.
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Gotta finance that war machine somehow. :yar:
Dex_Kivuli:
Is there any way that this could be done without being easily abused? What would stop wealthy corpies dumping large amounts of ISK in to the corp wallet/purchasing expensive contracts to make the corp seem exceptionally profitable?
orange:
--- Quote from: Dex_Kivuli on 14 Dec 2011, 17:22 ---Is there any way that this could be done without being easily abused? What would stop wealthy corpies dumping large amounts of ISK in to the corp wallet/purchasing expensive contracts to make the corp seem exceptionally profitable?
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Part of my thinking is to not actually measure raw wallet size.
The "Marketboard" would measure things like a traders market revenue and a manufacturers production (ISK)/hour type measurements. By actually digging into the API and pulling data out of it, it should be possible to screen some things.
For example, a trader's major customers could be tracked/tagged and diversity of customer base noted/rewarded. Location, items, etc.
It could be a tool for the trader/producer and a way to compare success versus others.
Zuzanna Alondra:
--- Quote from: Techie Kanenald on 13 Dec 2011, 09:38 ---I'm studying to be an Accountant IRL, so if you want me to do statements for you I can! :twisted:
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Ditto - the use of financial statements as a way of tracking wealth like a killboard is a very good suggestion. There is a reason it is already used as a major measuring stick in the real world.
Interestingly Eve adds a dimension that real life can't - the value of employees. It's been a debate on how to expense the costs of training employees - do you depreciate it over a term of time, expense it immediately or whatnot? Then further - if one of your companies largest assets is it's well trained staff - how is that expressed in dollar amounts on a balance sheet?
In Eve due to the character bazaar and character valuation tools - a value can be assigned to the cost of training personnel. The question of how and how appropriate is it could be fun. I could see a Fed corp refusing to list their employees as assets to avoid them being labeled as "things" while for a Holder's corp it would be very normal and depending on the employee they may even list the person as inventory.
The curiosity of how Eve-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principals) would look. Naturally we would all have to book the value of our prepaid insurance ... this is a fun thought.
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