No one knows exactly what the right balance of debt and equity is in an economy, but the shrinkage of securitisation in particular makes it more likely that the process of deleveraging will overshoot.
But when she accompanied Mulyono to the clinic to offer to pay the balance of his debt, they were told the baby had been sold to someone who could take care of him.
In the mid-1990s, they looked at the balance-sheets of their debt-laden subsidiaries, and at the feeble earnings from them, and decided, one after the other, that they had had enough, either merging their interests or pulling out altogether.
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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However, if Oracle can make use of the cash balance to make acquisitions instead of paying off debt, it could open up a lot of strategic opportunities.
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New Constructs includes off-balance sheet debt in all of its reports and adjusts the reported earnings of all companies for this misleading accounting practice.
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With the resulting near-collapse of financial systems, the banks passed the debt load on to the balance sheets of governments as part of government rescue efforts.
With the resulting near-collapse of financial systems globally, the banks passed the debt load on to the balance sheets of governments as part of the government rescue efforts.
The company would have posted a loss for 2011 if it hadn't received a government subsidy, and the amount of debt on its balance sheet has doubled in the last two years, according to company financial statements posted on the official Web site for China's bond market.
I'm glad to see Buffett isn't afraid of some debt on his balance sheet and in his operating properties.
Almost immediately, with the subprime mortgage crisis swirling and lots of leveraged buyout debt overhanging balance sheets, the bonds fell precipitously.
Margolin says that the seniority of the bank debt makes up for some of the weakness in the borrowers' balance sheets.
In such a situation, temporary balance-of-payments support together with generous debt relief makes sense.
The Federal Reserve Board requires long equity margin accounts maintain a balance of 50% equity, 50% margin debt.
Thompson is obsessive about the quality of his balance sheet--Thor is debt free, which allows it to acquire companies when the time is right for Thor, without overleveraging.
This is a company with off balance sheet debt that is over 60% of its net assets, write-downs that are over 25% of net assets, and after-tax profits that have been declining.
Yet regulators (such as Consob, which regulates Italy's stockmarket) and sophisticated financial institutions not only failed to spot the trouble, but also let it get worse, overseeing a spiral of debt issuance and off-balance-sheet deals that allowed Parmalat to keep up its pretence.
There is now a big gap between the two definitions of net debt, largely because the ONS took the decision to include all of the balance sheets of the banks that are majority owned by the public sector.
As you know, many of the countries out there enjoy capital surpluses on their balance sheets, and also consumer themselves are not in debt as they are in many of the developed markets.
Their balance sheet is pristine with no debt and plenty of cash.
The strong cash flows generated by the company along with the absence of debt have resulted in a sturdy balance sheet and abundant free cash.
Blankfein appeared next to the authors of the Simpson-Bowles plan to avoid the fiscal cliff and balance the US budget while reducing the dangerous overhang of debt.
An IVA requires you to pay back as much of your debt as you can afford over a period of about five years after which the balance is written off.
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Until America and Europe own up to the true magnitude of the problem and sort bad debt from good to get toxic liabilities off financial-industry balance sheets, no amount of talking or stimulus will mend the global downturn, he warns.
Or to put it another way, the official view is that Italy is intrinsically capable of repaying all it owes, that it is capable of recalibrating the balance between public sector and private sector in a way that over time will allow the burden of debt to fall.
It does not -- the key element of any plausible proposal to get our deficits and debt under control is that it have balance so that it is not unfairly burdensome to any sector of American society.
The company has used the proceeds of the offering to pay down all of its debt and rid itself of nearly all of its dilutive warrant obligations, - leaving its balance sheet in pristine condition.
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The analysts recommend stocks in companies with healthy balance sheets, high returns on equity and low levels of debt.
The sovereign debt crisis there is hurting the balance sheet of European banks, with the market wondering if Europe is now facing its own 2008.
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