IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2
BUSINESSES AND FACTORIES
INCORPORATION
When you have had your fill of futures contracts, and amassed a high enough Trader Rating, you can promote once more and turn your groat-making skills in a different direction. You can set up a private business, which will operate factories producing commodities to be sold on the open market, bringing you wealth and economic power.
To register a business you must go to the brokers office on Earth and use the command 'REGISTER BUSINESS shareprice businessname' where 'shareprice' is the initial share price for the business, and 'businessname' is what you want the enterprise to be called. This can be anything you like, up to 31 characters long, and can include spaces. You can see what names the existing CEOs are using with the 'DI BUSINESSES' and 'DI COMPANIES' commands, which list all of the businesses/companies currently in the game. 'DI CEO businessname|companyname' will tell you who owns a particular business or company. Traders and above can get a bit more detail about a business with 'DI BUSINESS businessname'.
Registering your business will set up the firm, and promote you to Industrialist - the boss. The business has 2,500 shares of which you are buying 250 at the initial price that you specify (the rest are available for you to sell to investors). So if you set the price at 8,000 you will pay 2 meg, and that amount will be put into the business as its starting capital.
You can look at your business details with 'DI BUSINESS' which produces a display something like this:
Newbod Enterprises registered business - CEO Newbod
Status: Running
Working Capital: 7,429,337
Revenue:
Income: 1,869,375ig
Expenses: 444,000ig
Capital:
Receipts: 17ig
Expenditure: 0
Book Value: 19,247,587ig
Days left in Accounting Cycle: 2
Profit last cycle: 0
Tax last cycle: 0
Business has been running for 0 full cycles
The company has the following factories:
# 1 producing Clays on Rigel 4 100% efficiency
# 2 producing Cereals on Scratchwood 100% efficiency
2 factories
The company has no depots
Shareholders' register:
Banking Corporation: 250 shares
Newbod: 281 shares
Dancing Phalanges: 250 shares
Treasury: 1719 shares
The current average value of the shares is 121315ig/share
Your total capital invested in the business is 4850037ig.
Outstanding bids for company shares:
1. Dancing Phalanges 500 shares at 8000ig/share - bid expires in 7 days
1 bid for a total of 500 shares
Now you've really become a capitalist!
