The significant out performance by Nokia, Research In Motion and Facebook over Apple shows the importance of monitoring money flows.

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Monitoring cash flows more closely will help your business anticipate and prevent low cash balances and help you meet monthly obligations.

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Moving forward HSBC and other major banks are likely to be more vigilant when monitoring financial flows between the U.S. and Mexico.

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The back office staff will probably remain at their desks monitoring cash flows, but the senior executives who just have to approve transactions or monitor cash flows can do it from anywhere with mobile devices.

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The report said they also failed to fix gaps in the firm's system for monitoring its cash flows and customer funds.

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They include the development of internationally accepted standards, increased transparency of governments and markets, and improved monitoring and supervision of capital flows.

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And if the government were to increase its monitoring of FDI and trade flows, the extra bureaucracy could harm the real economy.

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In more recent years, however, a new set of ocean monitors has documented a decrease in the rate of oceanic heating for the same time period that satellite-based monitoring systems have shown an expanding imbalance between incoming and outgoing energy flows.

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