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In 2008, he had several term sheets to raise capital but they were quickly withdrawn after Lehman collapsed.
Within 6 months it was clear we were on a rapid growth trajectory and we started seeing inbound investment term sheets.
If you really have a potential blockbuster, a venture capitalist or two might come sniffing around with a checkbook and backbreaking term sheets.
While most VCs have a signing rate of 50%, in 11 years in the business, writes Grant, Hornik offered 28 term sheets and got 25 acceptances.
The company has not explained what happened to the two term sheets, nor has it explained to investors why the restructuring did not take place by March 31 as planned.
Term sheets have been drawn up.
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Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
Separately, the Bank of England said it expects existing banks to bolster their balance sheets with more capital and long-term debt in the second quarter.
This will set off a flurry of restructuring in Europe's biggest but worryingly sluggish economy, because German companies' balance sheets contain huge hidden reserves derived from long-term holdings of shares in other companies.
Under the classical gold-coin standard (1717-1914) private banks and central banks alike issued currency convertible into a fixed weight of gold, with balance sheets consisting primarily of gold coins and short-term loans denominated in local (but gold-convertible) money.
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Another is the need for European banks to slim their balance-sheets: trade finance, because of its short-term nature, is easy to prune.
The lesson of every big banking crisis in recent history is that rapid and decisive government action to clean up balance-sheets results in a quicker recovery and smaller long-term damage to the public purse.
With legacy countries in a state of long-term insolvency, and major banks highly leveraged and with opaque balance sheets sitting on trillions in liabilities, policymakers have resorted to one of the most dangerous solutions in the aftermath of the financial crisis: money printing.
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Providing greater short-term liquidity might ease the taking back of assets on to banks' balance sheets and hence bring down interbank rates.
The long-term bond market is also very accommodating today for companies that do not have leveraged balance sheets.
In America, Britain, Japan and Switzerland they have pushed short-term interest rates to, or close to, zero and vastly expanded their balance-sheets by buying debt.
Credit analysts look at the corporate balance and income sheets and gauge whether or not a company has enough money to cover its short term maturing debt while paying interest on its long term loans, and still manage to grow as a company.
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