Management incentives, such as cash bonus or extra stock awards, are often tied to the budget.
So he also pays close attention to valuations, looking at metrics such as cash flow and earnings.
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For some companies, such as cash-rich Toyota, this is certainly a good idea.
Most of their liabilities are short-term, so they have had little choice but to stick mainly to bombproof investments, such as cash.
Russell Croft, managers of the Croft Value and Croft Income funds, combine low earnings multiples with other indicators, such as cash flow, book value and debt-to-enterprise value.
"In some cases the deals are large and the issuers are rewarding the relationship banks" who do regular work for companies, such as cash management and transaction banking.
Ford is also trying to drive car sales by offering competitive pricing and incentives such as cash rebates and zero-percent financing to win over customers from other competitors such as Toyota.
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This trend has remained intact despite central banks around the world doing all they can to incentive risk taking by making traditionally safe assets, such as cash and bonds, as unappealing as possible.
He expects American Express to gain from the increase in card usage across the globe as consumers and businesses shift from traditional forms of payment, such as cash and checks, to credit and debit cards.
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Much like a prenuptial agreement, the partnership agreement spells out who brings what to the relationship, such as cash or property, and outlines what happens if either partner wants out, dies, becomes disabled or stops performing.
Metro, Europe's largest retailer, said earlier this month that it wants to shed as many as six subsidiaries within three years to concentrate on international expansion and its established retailing operations, such as cash-and-carry and hypermarkets.
MyBizHomepage.com then encrypts the data from QuickBooks and sucks it into the dashboard, which stays on as long as the Web browser is loaded, and delivers clear, concise status reports on key accounts such as cash, receivables and cost of goods sold.
Typically, one series of cash flows would be considered the fixed leg of the agreement while the other would be less predictable, such as cash flows based on an interest rate benchmark or a foreign exchange rate, usually referred to as the floating leg.
The multiple advantages these electronic tender options offer versus traditional payment methods such as cash and checks including protection against theft and fraud, quicker transaction processing times, and reward programs that encourage use should continue to attract new users, especially in international markets such as Asia where cash remains the predominant payment method.
Accordingly, terrorists have been driven to more primitive methods of raising money (such as through criminal activity) and moving money (such as bulk cash smuggling) which are slower and more cumbersome and expose them to detection.
Their policies are otiose, since there are better ways to help the poor, such as direct cash transfers.
Governments have shown they can support consumption in specific areas, such as the cash-for-clunkers subsidy in cars or the homebuyers' tax credit.
This would include such items as cash back, sales taxes and deposits.
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This covers a host of businesses that provide steady income and are not too capital-intensive, such as corporate cash management, foreign exchange, trade finance, global custody and hedge-fund administration.
The Internet does not, and never did, hold out the hope of a nirvana in which such things as cash flow, delivery of goods or sales service would become trivia.
Companies like Facebook are allowed to treat the cost of non-cash compensation, such as stock options, as an expense that reduces profits, essentially the way they treat cash compensation such as salaries.
It would also would include carer's allowance and industrial injuries disablement benefit - although it would not include one-off benefits such as social fund loans and non-cash benefits such as free school meals or working tax credits.
It is obvious that fundamentals such as revenue and cash earnings have improved from a year ago.
This means the account should be invested in less risky investments, such as bonds and cash, once the child reaches 13.
That said, it also makes sense for you to maintain some exposure to defensive investments such as bonds and cash until the curtain of global uncertainty unfolds.
He designs his portfolio as a Berkshire-look-alike, but he also hunts for companies with characteristics that Buffett opts for, such as strong free cash flow generation, efficient management performance and owns undervalued, productive assets.
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Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our "recurring core business operating results, " meaning our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, such as SBC, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature.
Such covenants are typically related to net profit, which includes non-cash charges such as depreciation and amortization.
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In these contracts, selling stockholders, such as Stevenson, get cash upfront but retain some exposure in a stock.
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All have attributes that make them targets, such as having plenty of cash, good balance sheets or strong cash flow.
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