With a well-organized compradore department a firm might do a fairly large business with a very small foreign staff, or with no staff at all outside the foreign owner or manager.

• 一间公司可以在一个组织良好的买办部门与一小搓外籍员工，或甚至是只需要外籍老闆或经理的情况下做好一大笔生意。