Průvodce pro dluhopisy

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KORPORÁTNÍ DLUHOPISY

Korporátní dluhopisy jsou jedním z nejužitečnějších nástrojů financovaní, který reálné společnosti používají k získání prostředků. Sim Companies napodobuje reálné korporátní dluhopisy v jednodušší podobě, účelem je zjednodušit mechanismy.

Financování může být nezbytné pro zachování chodu vaší společnosti, ale může to být i vysoce riskantní. Pokud si společnost půjčí příliš mnoho s vysokým úrokem, může to přinést dosti hořkou zkušenost. To je hlavní z důvodů, proč jsou dluhopisy dostupné až od úrvoně 10, kdy už se předpokládá, že jste zkušenější podnikatel a víte, co děláte.

CO JSOU DLUHOPISY?

Dluhopis je v podstatě dluh nebo dlužní úpis. Když společnost prodá dluhopisy, získá peníze, které bude muset splatit později. Kupci/vlastníkovi dluhopisu je vyplácen úrok po dobu, po kterou dluhopis vlastní.

V Sim Companies nemohou být dluhopisy přeprodávány, čímž je “životní cyklus” dluhopisů zjednodušený. Dluhopisy vydává vydavatel dluhopisů (společnost, která hledá financování). Dluhopisy jsou zveřejněny na burze pro potenciální kupce. Jakmile je dluhopis koupen, vydavatel/prodejce dluhopisu dostane peníze a kupec/vlastník dluhopisu od teď bude dostávat denně úrok. Jak již bylo zmíněno, koupený dluhopis nelze přeprodat jiné společnosti.

Jakmile společnost, která vydala/prodala dluhopis, už nechce platit úroky, může dluhopis splatit (možné po 14 dnech), to znaméná, že tato společnost koupí tento dluhopis zpět. Musí vrátit půjčenou částku, ale už nadále nemusí platit úroky.

PRODEJ DLUHOPISŮ

Vydání/prodávání dluhopisů znamená, že umožníte ostatním hráčů půjčit vám peníze.

Pro prodej dluhopisů jděte do Sídla společnosti (HQ) a najděte sekci Finance.

Každý dluhopis má hodnotu $5 000. MNOŽSTVÍ je počet dluhopisů, narůstá tedy po $5 000

ÚROK může být nastaven na 0,50% až 2,0%

Úrok navyšuje nebo snižuje částku, kterou denně platíte. Kliknutím na AKTUALIZOVAT pošlete své dluhopisy na burzu.

Své nabídky můžete upravit na burze nebo v sekci finance, pokud byste chtěli upravit nabízené množství nebo úrok nebo pokud jste udělali nějaké chyby.

JAK EFEKTIVNĚ POUŽÍT DLUHOPISY

Umění využít dluhopisy efektivně spočívá v tom, že víte jaká je vaše Návratnost investice (ROI - Return on Investment) nebo jaká bude, až financování dostanete, a podle toho nastavíte úrokovou sazbu.

Pojďme se podívat na konkrétní příklad - vaše společnost si chce půjčit $51 750 na nákup stavebních materiálů. Už víte, že chcete postavit elektrárnu, a jste si jistí, že návratnost vaší investice bude 8,08% každý den. To znamená, že každý den budete mít za prodej energie zisk $4 183. Vše, co teď potřebujete udělat, je vydat dluhopisy v hodnotě $55 000 s úrokem, řekněme, 2%, takže budete kupcům dluhopisů platit $1 100 denně. To znamená, že díky vydání dluhopisů každý den vyděláte asi $2 500 víc, než kdybyste dluhopisy nevydali. Vždy byste měli chtít nabídnout menší úrok, než jaká bude vaše reálná návratnost. Ale čím vyšší je úrok, tím vyšší je šance, že vaše dluhopisy někdo koupí (půjčí vám ty peníze).

To samé platí z druhé strany; vaše společnost bude mít hodně peněz a spočítáte si, že nejlepší návratnost vaší investice, kterou můžete získat, je okolo 1%. V takovém případě se můžete podívat na trh s dluhopisy a pokusit se najít důvěryhodnou a spolehlivou společnost nabízející 2% úrok.

Můžete mít dobrého dodavatele, který vám spolehlivě dodává suroviny, které chcete. Ale množství stále není dostatečné. Můžete koupit jeho dluhopisy, čímž mu dáte prostředky na rozšíření výroby, díky čemuž bude moci lépe naplnit vaše potřeby.

BUILDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI)

Let's illustrate with a few examples and real numbers plugged in. Please note that your production and selling price may differ depending on the cost of your labor and input resources. Use these just as guidelines. Take a look at the ROI (return-on-investment per day) If this is higher than your bond interest, you will make more money than what you pay on the interest.

Warning! You should take into account that lvl 3 of any building, costs twice as much as a lvl 2 upgrade while giving the same production uplift, so if lvl 1 and lvl 2 building generates 10% ROI, then the level 3 will only do 5%. Also, the more buildings you have the higher administration cost, so you can also expect your labor costs to go up. The safest way is to issue the bonds gradually, few at a time, one building at a time.

Power plant (lvl 1)

Input Parameters

Return on investment (ROI)

Plantation (lvl 1)

Input parameters

Return on investment (ROI)

Note: The transportation cost plays a major role in the food industry, which is why selling using contracts/market has very different ROI when compared to selling with retail.

Electronics factory (lvl 1)

Input parameters

Return on investment (ROI)

BUYING BONDS

If you are looking to loan out your cash to other players then this is called Buying bonds. This is done through the Exchange. There are six (6) categories to buy from based on the Ratings of the companies.

Note: Companies can invest only a % of their own worth into a single company. Limit of 1% up to level 15, limit of 3% up to level 20, and limit of 5% level 20+.

HOW DO I PAY/COLLECT THE INTEREST?

1. When and how do I pay the interest?

2. How do I collect interest if I bought someone’s bonds?

The money is automatically deducted/paid starting at 00:00 UTC (midnight). The deduction/payments has to process the entire player database and does not happen instantly.
See Time Table in the Library for your local time and how long it may take.

HOW MANY BONDS CAN I SELL?

You are limited to selling bonds based on your Building Value (BV). Building Value is listed on your profile below your Company Value (CV).

Example:
This company has maxed out their bonds based on their Building Value. They sold $85,000 in bonds with a Building Value of $86,250. Remember bonds are sold in increments of $5,000.

Note: Building Value is the scrap value of your buildings not the construction costs of your buildings. See Construction Guide about “Scrapping.”

PAYING BONDS BACK

Calling Bonds (paying bonds back) can be done after 2 weeks (14 days). In your Headquarters (HQ); under the Company Financing, open the bond by clicking on the small arrow to the left of the bond owners name.  This will drop down the bonds information and now we can click on "Callable" in the lower right of that drop-down box.

Reminder: the "Callable" option will only be available if the bond has matured the full 14 days.  

A menu will appear on screen that allows you to pick how many bonds you'd like to call. Enter the amount of bonds you are calling. Select “Call Bonds” to pay the bonds back.

If you are a bond owner and someone has Called the bonds before the 14 day maturity time limit – scroll down to the Insolvency section.

GUARANTEES

I am buying bonds, what's the guarantee that the bond issuing company will pay the interest? Well, there's no guarantee. Interest is deducted automatically given the bond issuing company has sufficient money. But if the player stops playing, resets or deletes the account, the bonds may be called at 60% value. It's called a bad investment, see 'Insolvency' below.

Sim Companies has its own rating agency that assigns ratings to companies based on their standing. You can use the assigned ratings as a pointer to determine the level of risk when investing in bonds.

INSOLVENCY

Bond interests are deducted in the order the bonds were sold. If your company budget does not allow interest deduction at UTC midnight, the missing payment is recorded and is paid at the next UTC midnight together with the new interest payment.

Bankruptcy Proceedings
If there are 3 days of missed payments (missing 3 payments in a row); bankruptcy proceedings are executed. The insolvency process will call part of your bonds, starting from low rated bonds, at face value (until $500k worth of bonds were called, or all bonds were called). Creditors, however, are only getting the restructure percentage, see below. Afterwards, buildings are liquidated at book value (balance sheet value) to recover the cash. If building liquidation(s) are not able to cover all needed cash, inventory resources are liquidated at the inventory value, approx. 85% of market price. Called bonds are written off and you no longer have to pay interest on them. The cashflow will have details of how your buildings and resources were liquidated.

Player reset or deleted

If the company that issued bonds is reset/deleted, the system first liquidates all building to free up cash. The bonds are then called in the order, best ranking first. If there is enough cash to cover the bond at face value, 100%, the bonds are called. If there is less cash, bonds are called at the restructure percentage.

If the company that bought your bonds is reset/deleted the bonds are transferred to non-player character (NPC) and you still need to pay the interest until the bond is called.

INSOLVENCY FOR BOND OWNERS

You own bonds and the company you bought from can’t pay the interest or goes inactive.

In this case, bond owners will receive messages via the Personal Assistant.  It will list the company that is late and the amount you should have received.

Late payments will show up in your Account History under "interest."

Companies that have gone inactive will still pay the interest owed. The game will pay the interest as long as there are funds to pay it.  In the event of not enough cash recovered; insolvency proceedings are executed.

Example: Player sold 40 bonds ($200k face value). Cash is reduced to zero, causing bankruptcy proceedings. One building is scrapped. This frees up $300k; creditor gets the restructure percentage, defaulter has full value deducted: $200k. There is $100,000 cash left in to cover the interest of the remaining bonds. This will repeat until there are no more bonds to pay.

As a bond owner you will receive late payment messages like the one posted above.  To access an inactive player's account that is late on payments you have to go through bond section in your Headquarters (HQ).  Clicking on the company avatar will go to that company's profile.   You will not be able to search via the search bar for an inactive company.  

Once there you can view the company profile to see how many bonds were sold and how many buildings are left.

RESTRICTIONS

Some restrictions on use of bonds are in place to create a fair-play environment and make embezzlement difficult.

• Only companies at level 10 or higher can issue or buy bonds.

• Companies deemed affiliated to each other by the game system cannot buy each other's bonds.

• Interest rate is limited to range of:  0.5% to 2.0%

• Companies can't buy bonds at lower interest than the interest rate at which they themselves have issued bonds.

• Bonds can only be called after 2 weeks (14 days) from the time of sale.

• Companies can invest only a % of their own worth into a single company. Limit of 1% up to level 15, limit of 3% up to level 20, and limit of 5% level 20+.

• Companies cannot scrap buildings if the scrap would bring their asset value below 80% of their bond liability.

• Max bonds sold is based on your Building Value (BV).

STRATEGIES

Simia wrote a short strategy guide about how other players are using the bonds and what basic strategies you can employ.

Helpful articles from our local newspaper The Sim Companies Times:

How The Static Bond Market Leaves Lenders Pinched

The Play is… Bonds! Issue Bonds!

Buying Bonds: Good Idea?

Free from Bondage

Issuing Bonds and Good Debt

Why Bonds?

Using Bonds for Consistent Growth

The name is Bonds, James' Bonds

Why Bond Markets Fill Up During Recessions and Look Empty During Booms

by Patrik Beck