Sound investing is an appropriate focus, but not at the cost of ignoring essential cash flow management.
Call it what you will: a budget, a spending plan, cash flow management.
Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately-held companies and provides cash flow management analysis.
Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately-held companies and provides cash flow management software.
Smith (water heaters), Badger Meter (water meters), Kohler (faucets and toilets), Siemens (water filtration), Veolia (sewage filtration) and Pentair (flow management and filtration).
If you either owed the government a substantial balance or received a significant refund, you have some work to do on the tax segment of your cash flow management.
Real cash flow management involves understanding the components that make up where the money comes from, where it goes, and what choices are appropriate in creating a life of greater satisfaction.
For example, if a professional firm has a large number of partners who potentially want to sell out at death, disability, divorce, or retirement, the firm can significantly improve cash flow management by pre-funding these buyouts through purchases of life insurance on the owners.
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"While we focused on getting the finances in order and introducing a culture of cash-flow management, we let the Jains do what they knew best--make and sell their products, " says Jacob, now a partner at Richard Branson's renewables-focused Virgin Green Fund in San Francisco.
Interlocked components of GPS, traffic surveillance and flow management could optimize rivers of automobiles to lessen jams and feed cars onto roads with extra capacity -- all informed by an intelligent overview that gets you to your destination quickest by routes you could never compute yourself.
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Analysis of free cash flow also facilitates management's comparisons of our operating results to competitors' operating results.
Here is where an entrepreneur can confess his or her struggles with cash flow problems, management challenges, ethical dilemmas and so forth, without fear of exposure or ridicule.
He sees a scalable, long-term growth story based on the rising consumption of fast food, strong brands that cater to local tastes, a dominant market position at home, strong cash flow and strong management.
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Allowing companies to incorporate yuan into the ebb and flow of their treasury management operations marks another milestone in integrating the currency into the global economy.
The Management of Transportation Flow is one of 100 "Icons of Progress, " significant company milestones from the last century that are being recognized during IBM's Centennial celebration.
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One way is to work with social BPM and tie networks into BPM, process management, and work flow tools for end to end solutions.
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"Quiznos management has initiated cash-flow-improvement programs, such as lower food costs, reduced discounts and labor optimization, " Mr. MacDonald said in a statement last week.
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The company might be generating cash flow but many investors like to see management pay this cash to shareholders and many investors take the dividend policy into consideration before buying stocks, especially in consumer related sectors.
Profits should show up in cash flow, earnings should be predictable, and management needs to be owner-oriented.
Its housing guide is a good source of advertising revenue since housing management companies generally have regular cash flow.
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These are globally recognized brands with strong balance sheets, experienced management, high levels of cash flow and above-average dividends.
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The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.
While Kodak invented many of the core technologies underlying digital cameras, its management was too addicted to the steady flow of fat profits from its film, paper, and chemical franchises to risk cannibalizing it.
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Wahlstrom says the company meets the requirements for a leveraged buyout or management buyout, chiefly positive free cash flow and low financial leverage, and says it is "more likely than not" that a buyout will happen.
The formula: have management borrow money against the assets and cash flow of a company, and use that money to buy a controlling stake of it.
The idea that big data is going to change business is gradually taking hold in the ranks of senior management, and budget dollars are starting to flow.
Examples like Ampad come to mind, where the management team had a business with strong cash flow, but had a poor plan for how to grow and maintain their business.
McMoRan's early successful wells did not produce as much gas as expected to generate sufficient cash flow to keep the drilling program moving along, so management needed to try something different.
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