So he also pays close attention to valuations, looking at metrics such as cash flow and earnings.
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Russell Croft, managers of the Croft Value and Croft Income funds, combine low earnings multiples with other indicators, such as cash flow, book value and debt-to-enterprise value.
It uses so-called passive systems for cooling, such as the gravity flow of water and natural circulation based on thermodynamics.
The Internet does not, and never did, hold out the hope of a nirvana in which such things as cash flow, delivery of goods or sales service would become trivia.
Eligible improvements (PDF) include not only energy-saving equipment such as insulation, lighting, and HVAC systems but onsite renewable energy (rooftop PV, wind turbines, and fuel cells) and water-saving upgrades such as low-flow plumbing fixtures and grey water systems.
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Divided into teams of four, students spend the summer analyzing a complex problem such as a work-flow snag in the health care industry.
High dividend tax rates will cause tax conscious boards not to make that choice, opting instead for other uses of free cash flow such as debt-fueled stock buybacks and acquisitions.
The Forbes-DeLay-Saxton bill would, moreover, ensure that such funds as were provided would flow through monitorable U.S. government agencies and U.S.-registered non-governmental charities.
Indeed, some 43% of companies were renegotiating contracts without significantly addressing cash-flow problems such as unpaid bills, even though a third said suppliers were requesting improved payment terms.
Don't think it is unusual to have such large sums in bank account -- I know of several organizations and businesses who keep such sums as part of cash flow in the bank.
Both the Switzerland-based Basel Committee on Banking Supervision1 (BCBS) and the Financial Services Authority2 (FSA) in the UK have recently made it clear that when relying on manual processes, desktop applications or key internal data flow systems such as spreadsheets, banks and insurers should have effective controls in place that are consistently applied to manage risks around incorrect, false or even fraudulent data.
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In some cases, as in Brooklyn, there is also an incentive, such as tax abatement, that is counted as additional cash-flow over some number of years.
Longer term plays such as heavy oil should be put into the mix for positive cash flow, as should joint ventures with serious NOCs to give BP much more market and political cover.
It's better to break the bad news about money concerns, such as missed revenue projections or cash-flow gaps, before there's nothing left in your company's bank account.
Operations people, such as the CTO for electronic equity order flow or the operations director for fixed income, equities or market data, will want to monitor systems in real-time.
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The new boss says that risk appetite at the investment bank will be dialled back up again in due course, and that more capital will flow to other businesses such as retail banking in emerging markets, consumer credit and private banking.
In short, when the dollar is in decline limited capital tends to flow toward hard assets such as gold, land and rare art that already exist, and away from the stock and bond income streams that will fund the creation of wealth that doesn't yet exist.
These are "flow-based" tools such as wikis, micro-blogging and internal social networks, according to Mr Bryant.
Some of your savings should be earmarked to cover such expenses, so as not to stifle the flow of your regular income needs.
According to Zhao Qingming, an economist at China Construction Bank, international capital will flow back to emerging nations such as China this year.
"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.
When a current flows in such a wire, the electrons that flow as electricity are forced to align their spins to those of the local atoms embedded in the wire.
Rent-seeking and sheer profitability provide strong incentives for powerful pan-Asian logging networks to stay one step ahead of environmentalists trying to regulate the flow of logs from countries such as Indonesia.
This idea has been proposed to the State of California as a way to temporarily and quickly address water disruptions caused by a disaster that affects the water-delivery systems of the Delta, such as an earthquake that destroys levees, disrupts flow patterns, or damages pumping systems.
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Success depends on such intangibles as the rule of law and the free flow of ideas.
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Consumables such as high-margin toner cartridges provide a steady flow of cash on the back of this printer business.
For long picks, the Ward Ferry team puts a lot of emphasis on such classic numbers as return on equity, free cash flow, dividend yields and price-to-book ratios.
" The creativity of the Renaissance, he asserts, was catalyzed by the free flow of ideas in trading centers such as Venice, Genoa and Istanbul, cities that "lacked both big government and big corporations.
What's more, a European fund would not have to be big enough to deal with simultaneous deposit runs across all of Europe but only with ones in the periphery, since money would presumably flow to banks in core countries such as Germany.
He praised the efforts of Mexican President Felipe Calderon to counter drug cartels, which "have gotten completely out of hand, " but said the United States must take further steps, such as ensuring that illegal guns and cash do not flow from north of the Rio Grande to the cartels in Mexico.
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