In extreme cases, a company could have consecutive quarters of negative operating cash flow and, in accordance with GAAP, legitimately report positive EPS. In this situation, investors should determine the source of the cash hemorrhage (inventories, receivables, etc.) and whether this situation is a short-term issue or long-term problem.
Compounding the fiscal cliff threatening renewed recession in the short term is the even bigger issue of the long term fiscal and sovereign debt crisis, threatening long term stagnation and decline.
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Nevertheless, in the medium term the firm will probably have to issue more long-term debt to finance itself (it hopes to gain an investment-grade credit rating this year) and raise more equity, perhaps by listing.
The study raises the longer-term issue of the impact on families of such opportunistic approaches to the truth.
From an economic standpoint, avoiding the forthcoming fiscal cliff is the biggest short-term issue.
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By far the biggest long-term issue for anyone knocked down in life is the loss of self-esteem.
But we also have a long-term issue, and that is the priorities that we've set through our government.
Everyone agrees it would be best to take politics out of the issue of long term care for the elderly.
Ms. BEINECKE: I see that as an additional, important, and very, very significant long term issue that can really add urgency.
The point is to let corporations or municipalities issue long-term instruments at the lower rates usually associated with shorter-term instruments.
It will issue long-term debt for the first time in its existence.
Despite expectations of margin compression, most analysts believe margin compression is a near-term issue that will be worked out as the new products mature.
Does he think the Europeans need to step up, not so much on the longer-term issue but on the immediate issue of restoring market confidence?
Mr. EDWARDS: I think it depends entirely on, number one, whether there are leaders, who the country recognizes, who are willing to make this a long-term issue.
Do they make it clear to the rest of the organization that the resources are allocated and not to be trampled upon to meet some short term issue?
But that is a long-term issue for our economic competitiveness.
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Aodhan O'Donnell, Senior Manager for Public Health at the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland (HPA), said fuel poverty was a very serious issue although the term was not widely known or used.
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But it is too soon to tell whether the vehicle will ever be restored to its former pre-credit-crunch glory, when it was able to issue short-term commercial paper to fund its investments in asset-backed securities.
There is a long-term issue, though, that we have to deal with -- and this was true even before the current crisis -- and that is that so much of our economic activity was in the financial services sector.
Munis were especially hard-hit by the rise in long-term Treasury yields because tax-exempt issuers, such as state and local governments, tend to issue more long-term bonds than do corporate issuers.
Volatility in the long term is much less of an issue than it is in the short term.
Yes, Merck or Pfizer has honestly earned the government-issue, fixed-term monopoly that we call a patent.
Separate from this question of the distribution of water is the issue of long-term management of the resource.
"I don't think you will be seeing this as an issue, long-term through the Games, " he told a press conference.
What is crucial is the issue of the long term unemployed as certain processes are outsourced to cheaper, offshore labor centres.
The issue in the short term was how to make the market more competitive, by helping people change tariff and insulate their homes.
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