mate i just thought it odd that OOC'S can be affected by how much money comes in and also where we finish in the league?
are OOC'S that delicate?
wages ect.. defo but OOC'S?
I think that depends on the nature of your business. You might ask
@the esk (which autocorrect always revises to "the eek") for a better description, but here's what I've seen.
Suppose you have an accounting firm with 25 employees, which operates on regular workload and low margins. Costs are relatively known and fixed, but so is income, which is relatively regular. Business investment will probably be regular as well, unless you mortgage your investment through a business loan. Or maybe you bring in a new client that adds 33% workload and revenue with one fell swoop, then you may see irregular investment.
Or suppose you own a real estate development company, with fewer employees and much less regular income (sudden, large increases in revenue). This group will see business investment fluctuate very much in line with revenue, often because new investment is deferred until revenue arrives (since it often arrive in large chunks). Alternately, if this group is owned by someone with deep pockets, the owner may provide a very even business investment, but he/she is taking all the losses and profits on their side in lumps.
A business that may run more like a football club is an airline. I'm not familiar with non-US carriers, but here the industry is running something between a 2% and 5% loss since 1978 (deregulation of the airlines). A typical airline will post these profits: -5%, -10%, -12%, -8%, +58%, +23%. Their business is highly leveraged and takes large chunks of profit in a small number of years to balance out the losses. These businesses are restricted by three main factors: fuel costs (gotta have fuel), airplane lease costs (gotta have airplanes), and worker wages. The only thing within their control is worker wages, so there is a natural antagonism between pilot (all workers, but here I'll simplify) and company in regard to compensation and benefits. When these airlines finally hit their payday, the profits are usually invested in better equipment (new leases on new aircraft, selling old aircraft to smaller carriers from other nations), so that the airplane and fuel fixed costs go down. Little of the profit goes to worker compensation, so the union leverages strikes against the company to increase the pay scale for all workers (within that union).
So it seems entirely reasonable to me that many businesses would reinvest irregularly if their income (or profit) is irregular. Whether that's the cause of OOC fluctuations, I can't say, but it seems reasonable to me.
