Financial Benefits from Business

The primary function of a business varies according to the company or even in different points of view within the same company (eg, in terms of the shareholder, employee, union, management. ..). Among the various operational functions usually observed are:

• Serve the market, producing and distributing goods and services that meet a demand. It's only economic justification, no company can survive without making it his priority, unless protected and outside the scope of competition (eg for some utilities), which a purely economic standpoint, may lead to consume more resources than it does use.
• Make money, that is to say extract financial benefits "collecting more money than money invested, especially to attract institutional investors and small shareholders,
• Produce a cash surplus will be invested with a greater advantage in the development activities or other business (part of a "group").
• Maximize, status, social utility (to improve the situation of the company) or profit (difference between the sale price and the cost of resources consumed).
• Achieving a technical goal: making a book (tunnel, bridge, road ...), producing a manufactured product, the design and implementation of a satisfactory service to a client. The technical goal itself can be extremely varied and included the following:

No activities that are not, for the entrepreneur, the main issue, but a means to another activity: for example the possession of a press group, production of strategic resources or businesses vectors images (in the example of the presence of the tobacco industry of ready-to-wear)

• agricultural cooperatives are businesses that aim to make a profit not for themselves but for the cooperative members,
• enterprise integration" are able to make their employees to assume a "normal" work, without attempting in some cases (workshop site of insertion) to generate profit.