FirstBuy has a similar aim for first-time buyers, but instead of paying rent, owners take out an equity loan to finance the balance.
No other country, not even America, comes close to matching Britain's trade balance in finance.
To finance the off-balance-sheet assets, the government set deposit interest rates at very low levels: 1% or so.
He must find a way to shrink the finance unit's balance sheet (freeing up cash for the parent to use for product development and for possible factory closings and job cuts) while keeping the profit engine from conking out.
According to a joint survey of finance directors conducted by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), very few countries surveyed are more upbeat about the economic recovery than the U.S. On balance, finance directors in the U.S. are more upbeat than their counterparts in other countries.
The nation's balance sheet could finance such a transition with no fiscal sweat.
Zapf has also had to restate its accounts for several previous years, and this week prosecutors began investigating Rudolf Winning, its former finance director, for suspected balance-sheet manipulation.
The usual approach is to conduct reverse-repurchase agreements, borrowing from one of its 16 primary dealers for short periods of time in order to finance the assets on its balance-sheet.
Carlos Julio Emanuel, the finance minister, has promised to balance the budget, but won't say exactly how.
Another is the need for European banks to slim their balance-sheets: trade finance, because of its short-term nature, is easy to prune.
Accor's finance director, Benjamin Cohen, says this balance of risks gave the company an advantage over its competitors in the downturn.
Which explains why finance directors prefer operating leases: they make balance-sheets shrink.
The central question in putting global finance to rights is how to strike the balance between, on the one hand, coping with financial distress once it has started and, on the other, improving incentives so that lenders and borrowers do not get into trouble in the first place.
The balance sheet of a carmaker's finance subsidiary, for example.
We were able as a nation to consume more than we produced by running deficits in our trade balance that the world was willing to finance by lending to us through the balancing capital accounts.
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In Britain, given the size of its finance industry, housing boom and consumer debt, the balance-sheet adjustment will, if anything, be greater.
The second was to use its balance sheet to help commercial and investment banks finance their holdings of hard-to-value securities and avoid fire-sales of assets.
Mr Papandreou and his finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, talk up the need to balance fairness and social peace with fiscal austerity.
Carbon-emissions trading is becoming increasingly widespread within the industry, as is carbon off-setting, the latter involving passengers paying a voluntary surcharge to help finance the planting of trees or other green projects and so balance out the environmental damage caused by their journey.
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The later would reduce imports, increase exports, and, by improving our balance of payments reduce our reliance on foreign saving to finance domestic investments.
"The work I've done here captures both of my majors, and it's so cool when they overlap, " says Jennifer Blundo, a 21-year-old double major in finance and mechanical engineering who is working on a running shoe for New Balance.
The guarantees will all be "off balance sheet", like the investments carried out under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
If the new finance minister, Christian Sautter, lacks the kilos to keep the government's balance, Mr Jospin will surely be tempted to interfere himself.
This solution, of the ESM bypassing the balance sheets of national governments and directly recapitalising banks, was already rejected by finance ministers when a number of Spanish banks were close to collapse last year.
The craftsmen own 26% of the equity in each company, with Artisans Micro Finance, a Fabindia arm holding 49%, and employees and other private investors holding the balance.
For all the risk that Mr Fabius will be too powerful to control, the likelihood is that he will provide a balance to the government that it has lacked since Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as finance minister last November in order to defend himself against charges of fraud and corruption.
For example, Capital One earns a large portion of its income from late fees or finance charges on cardholder loans, which are only charged if the cardholder does not pay the full monthly balance within an allotted period.
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The crisis might help the island balance its economy so that it had "more to do with tourism and less to do with international finance, " Calder said.
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