This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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Also on the plus side were a more than doubling of net current assets, to 769 million pounds and a debt-to-equity ratio that actually improved to 0.7 from 1.1 the previous year.
The implication of my view of the way monetary policy works for the assets of the Fed is that the current level of total assets is a result of past policy and that continued slow growth is needed to support the real economy going forward.
And a great antidote to deflation is current income: so investing in real assets that also provide yield is a double-purpose move.
Its current ratio, a measure of liquidity, is low, with current liabilities often bigger than current assets.
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The keener investors are to hold a country's assets, the bigger its current-account deficit will tend to be.
In February, Domino's announced a plan to refinance its current debt and take out a large low-interest loan backed by its revenue-generating assets, in an effort largely aimed at returning capital to shareholders.
Comparing long-term debt to current assets helps measure financial stability and highlights a potentially worsening situation within a company.
Sinopec's chief said the company "urgently" needs to acquire upstream capacity, and current low oil prices offered a good time to buy assets.
The Vickers Commission said there should be at least 6% of the personal current account market in a new competitor, and yet Project Verde assets forced by the European Commission into a sale only represent 4.6%.
Banks should like it because interest-only mortgages earn a premium rate and they get to lock in low-risk assets at their current depressed values.
At the current pace of borrowing, in a few years government debt will exceed total household financial assets.
Typically a bypass trust is worded so that at the time of death assets equivalent to the current legal estate tax exemption divert to the trust, generally benefiting the children.
Frontline wasn't a classic Graham value play since it didn't have much in the way of net current assets.
Instead, the yen's strength is a by-product of private sector recycling of the current account surplus and international purchases of Japanese assets.
Money fund shares price at a dollar on a daily basis not because they have promised to repay shares at a dollar, but because the underlying assets are required to meet very stringent portfolio requirements under current SEC regulations.
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Second, prospective foreign buyers and American sellers should proactively think about all of the potential applications of the intellectual property and other assets that would be transferred in a transaction, including those well outside the scope of current product lines.
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Investment adviser John Mauldin stops short of classifying the current overall market as a "bubble, " even though graphs showing the annual rise in funds and assets resemble the Nasdaq circa 1999.
If they hadn't, Zuckerman says, her current husband would be entitled to those assets, which he could bequeath to his own children or a new wife if he remarried.
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