Yes, the cash in the bank and receivables are actually worth more than the entire company at current prices.
Graham liked to buy companies for less than net current assets, meaning cash, inventory and receivables minus all obligations.
Beyond the hard assets that can be quantified--the cash and factories and receivables--are intangibles like trademarks, patents and ways of doing business.
Using SWIFT and a global bank like Citi, a corporate treasury can centralize its accounts around the world, giving the treasurer a real-time view of balances, payments and receivables and also permitting consolidation of funds for overnight or other short-term investing.
Discover Financial enjoyed healthy growth in card sales and loans receivables in the third quarter of 2012.
And I get my cash, receivables and expense numbers every week from QuickBooks.
Dewey within the past week brought aboard an operational turnaround and restructuring firm to help the law firm collect receivables and attempt to return money to lenders and other creditors, according to the people familiar with the matter.
You can gauge a company's receivables compared to sales by reviewing its quarterly income statement and comparing the receivables (balance sheet) ratio to sales (income).
He laments the fact that accounting rules require PeoplePC to recognize revenue over the life of a contract, and certain losses all at once, even though the company sells its receivables and takes in cash immediately.
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.
As Europe stumbles into recession our multinational corporations must feel the heat from a declining euro and lessening revenues, particularly sectors like technology, consumer durables and non-durables and financial services like credit cards receivables, travel and entertainment.
Loans based on receivables and inventories can be quickly liquidated, which is exactly what is happening.
D. (competing with the United Parcel Service) and let companies better manage their cash flow and reduce bad receivables.
Such activity could even be coupled with purchases of bundles of securitized consumer loans, credit card receivables and even corporate securities.
Most small businesses have a timing mismatch between receivables and payables--and you can't pay for things today with cash you expect to receive tomorrow.
Mark King, Affiliated's chief operating officer, says both the increase in receivables and slowdown in depreciation expenses were tied to businesses the company sold.
At 32, Pavlo was the department's "target man, " charged with handling high-risk accounts, collecting receivables and coming up with creative ways to dispose of them.
Many businesses applying for loans are looking to finance receivables and other working capital, according to a new survey of bankers by Sageworks, a financial information company.
Since 1986 the company has been financing the medical equipment and, later, receivables of healthcare providers, securitizing some of the loans and leases, and selling them to investors.
Roughly speaking, cash flow from operations is defined as net income plus depreciation, plus decreases in receivables and inventory, plus increases in accounts payable and deferred taxes payable.
America's government is working hard to revive markets for securitised debt, aware that banks lack the balance-sheet capacity to absorb all of those credit-card receivables and auto loans.
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Are receivables and inventories in line with the historical norm?
Infosys also discloses such sensitive information as the exact compensation packages for more than 450 of its top staff, the aging of receivables and other data that most companies consider proprietary.
Pavlo employed an array of tricks--taught to him, he says, at MCI--to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in aging bad debts and clearly uncollectable receivables owed by a raft of upstart telecom resellers.
Turns out that the Primary Fund, like many other money market funds, made significant investments in asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), which offered juicy yields, but did so because they were backed by things like mortgages, auto loans, credit card receivables and other risky assets that, despite their risk, came with investment-grade ratings.
Generally speaking, expect to write off roughly 5% of your receivables, and budget accordingly.
The bank keeps its risks under control by selling off mortgage and credit-card receivables to bigger institutions.
Timeshares in general has been under pressure in recent years due to defaults and diminished availability of receivables financing, but that has been improving recently.
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