Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 A dream of future wealth
- 1 Income and outcome
- 2 Fool's gold
- 3 Play the game
- 4 The judgment of balance
- 5 Return to reality
- 6 The cost of success
- 7 Profit and cash
- 8 Time to take stock
- 9 A capital asset
- 10 Mind your own business
- 11 The taxonomy of fog
- 12 The Merchant of Florence
- Part 2 The hidden art of management
- Appendix 1 Mathematical anchor
- Appendix 2 Getting to grips with cash
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Time to take stock
from Part 1 - A dream of future wealth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 A dream of future wealth
- 1 Income and outcome
- 2 Fool's gold
- 3 Play the game
- 4 The judgment of balance
- 5 Return to reality
- 6 The cost of success
- 7 Profit and cash
- 8 Time to take stock
- 9 A capital asset
- 10 Mind your own business
- 11 The taxonomy of fog
- 12 The Merchant of Florence
- Part 2 The hidden art of management
- Appendix 1 Mathematical anchor
- Appendix 2 Getting to grips with cash
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Australian CSIRO has designed Moisture Control Technology (MCT) to control free moisture found in stored or transported fresh food, enabling food to stay fresher for longer … CSIRO has tested the MCT liner with both fruit and vegetables and in the laboratory storage trials a shelf life of 28 days was achieved at 2°C for cauliflowers and 6 days at 25°C. In the case of oranges the shelf life was 56 days at 3°C and 21 days at 21°C.
Food Quality NewsLet us return to our fruit-sellers. One day the brother – his name is Geronimo – strikes lucky: he finds a new orange grove adorned with ripe fruit that falls to the soft ground when he shakes the trees. He rapidly fills several baskets with oranges and brings them to his sister Ursulina by the roadside. But today is not so fortunate for Ursulina: there have been few passing motorists and sales are poor. She looks at all the oranges and declares that they have no chance of selling them before sunset. ‘Never mind,’ says Geronimo, ‘We'll hide the baskets in the bushes and sell them tomorrow. That means that I probably won't have to pick any at all in the morning, so instead I'll make that new stall that you wanted to replace the old one that's falling to bits.’
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- Financial Management for BusinessCracking the Hidden Code, pp. 48 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010