At Yuanmeng Venture Capital, there were only two people in the conference room, He Desheng and Pei Qian, but there were more than ten small video windows on the large projector screen.
He Desheng said: "Mr. Pei, everyone is here, how about we start the meeting now?"
Pei Qian took a sip of tea and said, "Well, let's get started."
Pei Qian came to Dream Realm Venture Capital today to go through the motions at the strong request of He Desheng.
So far, Yuanmeng Venture Capital has invested in about ten companies in strict accordance with the rules set by Pei Qian at that time, with the investment amount of each company ranging from one million to two million.
This investment amount is determined by He Desheng based on the scale of these companies and the approximate amount of funds required to start the entire business model.
To put it more simply, if the company is a start-up and its business model does not require that much capital, He Desheng’s approved investment will be less.
Because investments are strictly made on a first-come, first-served basis, from front to back, the first batch of invested companies are basically start-up companies. After all, these companies are the ones that need the most money and are the first to come seeking investment.
If any of the previous companies make money, then according to Mr. Pei's request, He Desheng will immediately sell the shares of these companies and continue to look for the next company in the queue to invest in.
If all companies fail to make money...then Mr. Pei will celebrate with champagne.
Although all the money has been invested, Yuanmeng Venture Capital has also arranged a special financial department for each company to supervise the daily expenses of these companies, and holds regular remote meetings to report on the financial situation.
These accountants are all old employees of Tenda, who are deeply baptized by the spirit of Tenda. They will receive generous subsidies after being assigned abroad. At the same time, the financial statements they make will be supervised by Tenda's financial department.
It cannot be said that there is no possibility of being bribed, but the possibility is very low.
In the first video window is a female accountant in her thirties, with short hair and wearing myopia glasses. She is a key employee of Tenda. She is the oldest and has the strongest business ability among all the accountants who are assigned.
Her name is Jing Haibing, and she is responsible for the financial work of the cold-faced girl.
The reason why she was sent to Cold Noodle Girl was mainly because this project left a deep impression on He Desheng, and it was a key project among the current batch of invested companies.
The reporting officially begins.
Jing Haibing looked down at the report in his hand, then raised his head and said: "Mr. Pei, Mr. He, everyone. Before reporting the financial situation of the cold-faced girl, Mr. He hopes that I will emphasize again the common tricks and delays in financial work.
A few minutes, everyone.”
Not all of Tengda’s finance staff sent out are well-informed.
Because the financial officers sent out must be our own people, who have been baptized by Tengda spirit and know the basics, so they are basically old employees of Tengda.
But many people here joined Tengda not long after graduation and have never seen so many tricks.
After all, Tengda strictly enforces laws and regulations 100%, and is completely clean and transparent from procurement, reimbursement to tax payment. These people will not have the opportunity to witness various shady operations.
But when you go to an outside company, you will inevitably encounter all kinds of tricks, and some financial people who have never seen the world may be tricked.
Therefore, He Desheng also wanted to use this meeting to ask Jing Haibing to highlight the problems that may be encountered at work with other accountants, so as to take precautions in advance, so as to avoid not being able to detect them in time when they encounter some unscrupulous operations.
Pei Qian happened to also want to hear it.
After all, financial statements are just piles of numbers, which sound too boring, but these "tricks" sound more interesting.
Jing Haibing organized his thoughts and began to explain.
"The money we invest is all transferred to the company's public account. No one is stupid enough to transfer the money directly to the private account. The so-called trick is nothing more than that these company managers use some means to transfer the money
Burn it in real business, and then use some covert means to enrich your own pockets."
"So, there are several common parts that must be carefully reviewed and checked. For example, when a company purchases office supplies, if the market price is 1 yuan, it must be purchased from a place that sells 2 or 3 yuan. In other words, the unit price of the supplies is fine.
, but the unit price of bulk purchases has not been significantly reduced. There must be a problem behind this."
"There is also the matter of promotional materials, such as posters, banners, display boards, leaflets, etc. On the surface, 5,000 leaflets were ordered, but in reality only 4,000 were produced, or these materials were a mixture of genuine and fake. There is also a considerable profit margin.
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"In addition, is there any situation where the company is affiliated with free money, is there any situation where it colludes with headhunters to privately rebate and engage in yin and yang contracts? Are there any tricks in the advertising channels used during the advertising process? How many registrations of the app are actually promoted?
Of them, how many were faked by someone using a program? Are there any fake orders, fake shipments or false marketing for the various physical goods, rebates and coupons given out in marketing activities?”
"If it is auditing or supervising, it will be very difficult to find out these problems, but now that we are directly responsible for the finances of these companies, we can find ways to avoid these problems."
"For example, when purchasing office supplies, we purchase them through Tengda's trusted channels, so that we can avoid the money invested being spent indiscriminately."
"Of course, everyone's ability and energy have their limits, and it is difficult for us to guarantee that every penny will go smoothly, but we must work hard to keep the company's accounts clean and not make some low-level mistakes..."
While Jing Haibing was telling other finance professionals about the common "techniques" used in these start-up companies, he also taught them what aspects they should be more vigilant and preventive about.
He also emphasized that if problems are discovered, they must be reported as soon as possible.
Pei Qian was also listening carefully, appearing calm on the surface, but in reality it was an eye-opener.
These operations are really cool!
Obviously, when it comes to defrauding investors of their money, geniuses from all walks of life emerge in endlessly and come up with various tricks.
Of course, these blames do not necessarily belong to the entrepreneurs. Some simple entrepreneurs may have been misled by investors. The investors led the entrepreneurs to make false claims, and then passed them on to the next successor, making themselves rich in silence.
Pei Qian's original idea was very simple. He just didn't want these entrepreneurs to enjoy the success with the money they invested, so he chose the more troublesome supervision method of assigning finance.
Now it seems that this step is really the right one.
Pei Qian doesn't think this will have any impact on his loss of money. After all, the probability of failure of start-ups is too high. Even if they operate fully formally, most start-ups cannot escape the fate of bankruptcy.
They also go bankrupt and lose money. Some investors make a lot of money through various gray methods, while some investors can only earn a small salary or even have to bear debt. If Pei Qian had to choose, he would definitely choose the latter.
Anyway, the money has been invested in you. If you make money based on your ability, it is your destiny. We, Tengda, will immediately withdraw our investment. If you lose money based on your ability, you will be thanked by Mr. Pei.
The only thing is, you can't take Tengda's money and do nothing, and end up making a lot of money for yourself. That is something that Mr. Pei absolutely cannot accept.
Soon, Jing Haibing finished talking about common financial issues in start-up companies and began to continue reporting on his work at "Cold Noodle Girl".
Pei Qian had briefings from various companies in front of him, and he picked up the "cold-faced girl" briefing and flipped through it.
Judging from the current situation, the development of the cold-faced girl is very smooth, and it is proceeding completely according to Meng Chang's original plan.
The cold noodle girl's first flagship store has been opened in the imperial capital. Pei Qian glanced at the photos and saw that the store was in pretty good shape.
The exterior door faces are all huge floor-to-ceiling windows, which look clean and tidy. The signboard above has the iconic logo of Cold Noodle Girl, which is fashionable with a bit of ancient charm;
The store should be in line with some Western-style fast food. There are beautiful photos of the food above the cashier. The tables and chairs are similar to Western-style fast food, but with a little bit of Chinese elements added;
In the store, all the waitresses are young and beautiful girls. They don’t have the signature polite smile, and they don’t show the standard six teeth. Although they look cold and cold, in fact, the smile is still a bit charming.
What followed was a series of marketing activities carried out by the "Cold Noodle Girl" and the enthusiastic response on the Internet.
For example, Meng Chang specially rented a supercar and asked a beautiful woman to drive the supercar and personally deliver baked cold noodles for takeout. He liked to mention a hot search topic;
The opening reward is that the first 100 customers to the store will receive a free serving of grilled cold noodles;
Girls who come to Lengmian Girl for dinner and post their orders on Weibo @official can win 1888 fashion gift packs through regular draws;
Launching the "Biggest Order" campaign, the biggest order placed at Cold Noodle Girl within one week of opening will be fully exempted, and the second and third place will also receive gifts.
In addition, some special holiday activities have also been arranged. For example, the 7th of next month will be "heavy snow". On this day, the cold noodle girl will launch a unique "Snowflake Baked Cold Noodles". As long as you come to the store to consume on this day and
Customers who send Weibo messages can get one for free.
Behind these marketing activities is the rapid consumption of Lengmian Girl's book funds.
Meng Chang took 2 million from Yuanmeng Venture Capital and another 1 million from two other investors, for a total of 4 million.
However, money is spent quickly.
Store rent in the downtown area of Imperial Capital, decoration, the wages of a bunch of pretty girls working as waitresses, various money-burning subsidies, buying Weibo hot searches, etc., all cost money everywhere.
4 million may seem like a lot, but it actually costs up very quickly, especially since Meng Chang plans to continue to open branches. Every time he opens another branch, there will be another bottomless pit.
But even so, Meng Chang did not play any tricks on the money issue. After all, Jing Haibing was in charge of the finances of the cold-faced girl.
If Meng Chang wanted to make some money by playing tricks on office supplies, promotional materials and labor costs, it would be impossible for Jing Haibing to be unaware of it.
Of course, as a high-level player, Meng Chang had no intention of using such dirty tricks to make money.
Not to mention the feasibility issue, even if the accounts are tampered with, when the company later sells it to the receiver, the company behind will just check the accounts and send Meng Chang directly.
Therefore, manipulating materials and marketing expenses is too low-end, and Meng Chang does not bother to do it.
Soon, Jing Haibing's report was completed.
The financial officers of other companies also report on their own situations.