composition of materials.
无形资源有两种类型，人和非人，作为非人，可以突出技术，他们根据材料的组成找到专利。
Another thing is that IKEA has a unique company culture, since the vision, mission and values are present in every business process, plus annual management meetings are held to improve all business activities.
另一件事是，宜家拥有独特的公司文化，因为愿景、使命和价值观体现在每一个业务流程中，加上每年举行的管理会议，以改进所有业务活动。
Finally they find organisational resources, which are business ideas.
最后，他们找到了组织资源，这就是商业理念。
Regarding human intangible resources, they can cover in this area to permanent workers, average wages and high standards of the company.
关于人力无形资源，他们可以在这一领域覆盖到长期工人、平均工资和公司的高标准。
Technological resources include operation systems and tools required to effectively produce or create a product or service. These include energy, information, people, tools, machines, capital and time. Technological resources help production processes and service delivery in companies and organizations.
技术资源包括有效生产或创造产品或服务所需的操作系统和工具。其中包括能源、信息、人员、工具、机器、资本和时间。技术资源有助于公司和组织的生产流程和服务交付。
The main Technological resources required in the operation of Ikea include the following:宜家运营所需的主要技术资源包括
intellectual property, for example designs, drawings, text, music, video 知识产权，例如设计、绘图、文本、音乐、视频
Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps people to stop anybody stealing or copying:
拥有正确类型的知识产权保护有助于人们阻止任何人偷窃或复制
the names of products or brands 产品或品牌的名称
inventions 发明
the design or look of the products 产品的设计或外观
things the company write, make or produce 公司编写、制造或生产的东西
Copyright, patents, designs and trademarks are all types of intellectual property protection. So IKEA have their own design, drawing for their furniture.版权、专利、外观设计和商标都是知识产权保护的类型。所以宜家有自己的设计，为他们的家具绘图。
accumulated experience and skills;积累的经验和技能
The accumulated experience is what people have gained over years of working. Employees with more experience are likely to better than new employees. Also there should be enough people with the skills to carry out the operations in the business.
积累的经验是人们多年工作所获得的。经验丰富的员工可能会比新员工做得更好。此外，还应该有足够的有技能的人来执行业务运营。
At IKEA they believe in people. Behind every product are humble, enthusiastic teams that make it possible. They offer exceptional career and learning possibilities. They encourage a person to try different roles, change between functions and even move abroad. A Person can design their own career path according to their development plan and future goals. IKEA believe in everyone’s ability to develop. Because as a person grow, IKEA grows too.
在宜家，他们相信人。每一个产品背后都有谦逊、热情的团队，让它成为可能。它们提供了非凡的职业和学习机会。他们鼓励一个人尝试不同的角色，在不同的职能之间转换，甚至移居国外。一个人可以根据自己的发展计划和未来目标来设计自己的职业道路。宜家相信每个人都有发展的能力。因为随着一个人的成长，宜家也在成长。
software licences 软件许可证
There are many businesses that they have to invest their money into specialists software programmes so that they can operate properly. They have their own software module which consists of various software and material for which the intellectual property rights are vested in companies in the IKEA group.
许多企业不得不将资金投资于专业软件程序，以便正常运营。他们有自己的软件模块，由各种软件和材料组成，知识产权归属于宜家集团的公司。
protection via patents and copyrights 专利和版权保护
IKEA can use their money to protect their technological resources, but they can also use legislation to protect their ideas that they have come up with and they will need to be able to prove that their idea has been used without permission.
宜家可以用他们的钱来保护他们的技术资源，但他们也可以用立法来保护他们提出的想法，他们需要能够证明他们的想法被未经许可使用。
4. Describe sources of internal and external finance for the business of Ikea 描述宜家业务的内部和外部资金来源
Mainly IKEA is a privately owned company, hence they are not bound to disclose their financial information in the form of GPFR’s – i.e. balance sheets and P&L statements. Therefore they only disclosed limited amount of information to the public.
宜家主要是一家私营公司，因此他们不必以GPFR的形式披露财务信息，即资产负债表和损益表。因此，他们只向公众披露了有限的信息。
Objectives of financial management 财务管理目标
– profitability, growth, efficiency, liquidity, solvency 盈利能力、增长、效率、流动性、偿付能力
– short-term and long-term短期和长期
These objectives remain constant for every business and due to the nature of IKEA efficiency is quite a majo
