Same thing happens with tax returns as the clients send you a K-1 that they have misplaced or all of sudden get serious about looking for deductible items, when they learn they have a balance due.
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"England have a great chance in the final - they have great balance and great depth, " he added.
They use too much leverage (in other words, they have risky balance-sheets) and are thus a threat to financial stability.
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Soon it will be colleges day of reckoning as they have to balance the reality of high costs, debt burden and lower degree value.
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They have become balance sheets that might swallow the earth.
Though they want to give the inspectors more time implying there is no need for a second resolution yet they have to balance this against fear that America might go it alone and spurn the Security Council, which is a useful mark of their remaining global influence.
They have managed the balance sheets so that they're getting an increasing return on invested capital.
They say the story should speak for itself but also that they have tried to balance national security and journalistic imperatives.
To some extent, the banks have been able to disguise their ills because of the unrealised equity gains that they have on their balance sheets.
Not only must governments heal financial systems, they also have to balance budgets or at least get them back to something that looks like sane economics.
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Had their votes counted, they would have tipped the balance of power firmly back to the nationalists.
Akorn is another health-care company, in the ophthalmology, the eye care area, and they have just an amazing balance sheet, and great growth potential.
U.S. regulators might not be able to rein in pay incentives as their European counterparts have, but they have been aggressive on balance-sheet risk.
They no longer have inflated balance sheets with high cost debt.
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If people continue to save more than they typically have, on balance, that's going to be hard for retail without factoring in online purchases from offshore which are an issue as well.
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Then they have to solve the balance of payments crises draining the west white before getting their economies on a footing to compete with developing markets all while hoping to avoid social unrest.
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For one thing, they are avoiding making long-term loans, a sign of funding difficulties, probably caused by the nonperforming assets they have been carrying on their balance sheets.
This is the uncertainty about potential losses from subprime mortgages and the products based on them, and given that uncertainty the banks' own desire to hoard capital against the chance that they will have to strengthen their balance sheets.
As a matter of fact when I heard that some companies are not accelerating dividends, even ones that will be paid in January, so that they will have a better looking balance sheet on December 31, I thought it was outrageous.
It's a similar dynamic to what is happening with Wall Street banks that committed to fund leveraged buyouts, only to have trouble selling those loans in the syndicated loan market--they have to hold them on balance sheet until the credit markets come back to life.
"They have to prove on the balance of probabilities ... what happened to them and that will be forensically tested, there will be independent psychiatric reports for all of them and they will have to give evidence and satisfy the court that they're telling the truth, " she said.
People want names that they know, that they can trust, that have limited debt, great balance sheets, and that they know will be around, and they can trade out of it.
The book argues that, had they not lost this balance during periods of tension, they might have seen the opportunities hidden beneath the dangers.
Companies I have seen recently for bank lending have mostly implemented the job losses and restructure they have needed to stave off immediate threat to their balance sheet but many have yet to get to the low point in their sales downturns so more may need to be done.
How many employers have actually asked their employees what they would want to have a satisfactory work-life balance?
They have just been shifted to another balance sheet or pushed out into the future.
Next come executives, with 40.5% saying they have a happy work-life balance.
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With the new reform, are they going to have some checks and balance on these companies, who before did not have to answer to anyone?
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