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Burn rate is a synonymous term for negative cash flow. It is a measure for how fast a company will use up its shareholder capital.〔Ehrenberg, David. ("Is Your Company Dangerously Rushing To Scale?" ) ''Forbes.com'' January 4, 2013. Retrieved on May 20, 2014.〕 If the shareholder capital is exhausted, the company will either have to start making a profit, find additional funding, or close down. The term came into common use during the dot-com era when many start-up companies went through several stages of funding before emerging into profitability and positive cash flows and thus becoming self-sustainable (or, as for the majority, failing to find additional funding and sustainable business models and thus going bankrupt). In between funding events, burn rate becomes an important management measure, since together with the available funds, it provides a time measure to when the next funding event needs to take place. 〔Ron Conway and Mike Maples, (lecture and discussion with science and engineering entrepreneurship students ), Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner, 2008.01.23〕 Some entrepreneurs and investors say that part of the reasons behind the dot-com bust was the unsound management and financial investor practices to keep the burn rate up, taking it as a proxy for how fast the start-up company was acquiring a customer base. The term burn rate can also refer to how quickly individuals spend their money, particularly their discretionary income. For example, Mackenzie Investments commissioned a test to gauge the spending and saving behavior of Canadians to determine if they are “Overspenders.”〔(Financial Post Story )〕 == In project management == Aside from financing, the term burn rate is also used in project management to determine the rate at which hours (allocated to a project) are being used, to identify when work is going out of scope, or when efficiencies are being lost. Simply put, the burn rate of any project is the rate at which the project budget is being burned (spent).〔(The Project Scorecard )〕 In earned value management, burn rate is calculated via the formula, 1/CPI, where CPI stands for Cost Performance Index, which is equal to Earned Value / Actual Cost. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burn rate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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