She says HP had more of a return on sales investment focus, rather than cash flow.
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We tend to go with the flow, rather than ask why it has to be so.
Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.
These are nebulous goodies like civility and the teaching of common values, the benefits of which flow to society rather than to the individual.
For those not used to seeing social updates as a steady flow of information rather than individual nuggets needing processing, it can be overwhelming to see all the little bits.
But when it comes to using the turbulent flow of liquid metal rather than well-behaved cables and wires, the experiment becomes rather harder.
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For international money there is no point investing in a stock if the currency it is held in keels over, so in a period of currency uncertainty money will flow dramatically between currencies rather than between stocks.
Information should flow down (also) rather than up (exclusively).
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The week that is about to conclude has once again been defined by the ebb and flow (more the former rather than the latter) of Fedspectations and by the absence of decent physical gold demand from key markets.
Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term.
The subtler psychological point is that it is easier to document and track a project or activity if you can do it in the flow of what you are doing, rather than returning after the activity is complete.
In many cases for inventors and flow through entities, IP can produce capital gain rather than ordinary income.
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But at first it will flow to the new members as a gentle stream rather than a mighty flood.
Recently the extended due date for flow through entitities was pulled back to September 15 rather than having it coincide with the individual extended due date on October 15.
During a demonstration executives said the intention was to let users "flow" through applications using swipes and other gestures rather than copy the "in and out" nature experienced when navigating rivals' devices.
Businesses like Google, Zappos, and IBM have been household names as great places to work because they value the free flow of ideas and innovations that prioritize creative talent rather than traditional hierarchical social status.
EU, and the juiciest subsidies will flow to regions of countries like Poland and Hungary, rather than, as now, Spain, Greece and Portugal.
Returns in this new economy flow to creativity, technological skills, and risk-taking rather than to static knowledge and seniority.
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We spend our meetings talking about their cash flow surpluses and how to best position their growing wealth, rather than how to make it to the end of the month.
That last point raises another free-lunch possibility: If we would lower the U.S. tax on foreign source earnings, much of them would flow back to the U.S. for investment here rather than abroad.
In exchange for sacrificing some of its most valuable assets, Bakrie would have a chance to start again, using the cash flow of its operating companies to run its remaining businesses, rather than just service their debt.
To simplify (a lot) the tri-gate transistor allows power to flow over three surfaces of a tall and narrow silicon fin, rather than over a flat surface.
Rather they are a nice incremental income flow that is turning out to be larger than he expected when he acquired the machine some seventeen months ago.
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Wal-Mart plans to keep a steadier flow of customer traffic this year by planning out an early discounting season rather than waiting until mid-December to clear out slow-moving merchandise.
The newly available SwiftKey 4 -- Flow is just a component here -- brings Android writers the promised gesture-based typing along with Flow Through Space, which lets users glide to the spacebar to keep typing rather than pause after every word.
Despite the support for McEnroe, the flow of young U.S. talent onto the professional circuit remains a trickle rather than the hoped for flood.
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