Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Financial empowerment

Finance for non-financial Managers - Global Financial systems

      A NAMIBIAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You make biltong...

      AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
      *        You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

      A SOUTH AFRICAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You go on strike because you want three cows.
      *        They get stolen, so you blame the previous regime and steal someone else's cows and shoot their owner.

      A ZIMBABWEAN CORPORATION
      *        A farmer has two cows.
      *        You take over his farm, eat both cows and wait for the international community to supply more.

      A JAPANESE CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You re-design them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
      *        You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

      A GERMAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

      A BRITISH CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        Both are mad.

      AN INDIAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You pray to them for food.

      AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
      *        You break for lunch.

      A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You count them and learn you have five cows.
      *        You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
      *        You count them again and learn you have 12 cows.
      *        You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

      A SWISS CORPORATION
      *        You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
      *        You charge others for storing them.

      A CHINESE CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        You have 300 people milking them.
      *        You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

      AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
      *        You have two cows.
      *        The one on the left is kinda cute...

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