The guarantees will all be "off balance sheet", like the investments carried out under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
Even successful firms generating value for customers can be knocked off balance.
Allowing loan securitizations, derivatives, and swaps to be taken off bank balance sheets was an important element in this, as were the procyclical rules on capital and loan loss reserves.
To work our way out of the current morass, it will be necessary to relax the mark-to-market rules for banks on valuing the assets that need to be taken off of their balance sheets.
So Mr Shimpi tells his clients to overcome their preoccupation with the debt-equity ratio and to concentrate instead on the underlying issues: how much capital does the company need, and how much should be on and off the balance sheet to minimise its total cost?
Under Warren's plan, the commission would prevent credit card marketing to college students, provide statements to show when the balance will be paid off, and require that the card's terms remain the same until it expires.
The sector may be paying a price for its cleverness, and for all those complex products and-off balance-sheet vehicles that seemed to be working so well in the good years.
Tearing motions shall be downward to prevent pulling the detainee off balance.
Regulators are said to be examining how banks accounted for derivatives exposures held off balance sheet.
It is hoped that, with toxic debts off their balance sheets, the Nigerian bank will be able to attract new investors in the private market, and will be better placed to recommence fresh lending to support the economy.
What follows the transistor will, on this reasoning, most likely be just another kind of transistor: one that is not thrown off balance by the uncertainties of quantum physics, but instead uses them.
Just as the cable television newsmen were bemoaning the unwillingness of the Republicans to compromise, Boehner came forward to suggest strongly that the Grand Bargain was a very real possibility since his Republicans in Congress would now be willing to accept some tax increases to produce revenues to balance off the reductions in spending on entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
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If a borrower wants to rescind, he also should be prepared to sue and put up the cash to pay off the principal balance.
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By including both the cost of paid-up capital and off-balance-sheet capital, managers and investors would be more accurate in their estimates of a company's true cost of capital, and therefore of a company's real value.
Historic liabilities have to be honoured (and properly accounted for, rather than hidden off the government's balance-sheet).
Amex's problems stem in part from a familiar source: an aggressive move out of its traditional business of charge cards, which must be paid off each month, into riskier credit cards that allow customers to carry a balance.
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Mr. BRENT NORBERG: Now, the population growth rate appears to be slowing or leveling off, which would give us an indication that it's reaching its balance point.
The lesson of big banking busts, such as Japan's in the 1990s, is that debt-laden balance-sheets must be restructured and troubled banks fixed before real recoveries can take off.
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