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The Theft Act 1968 creates three offences of obtaining by deception and the Theft Act 1978 adds another four offences.
The Theft Act 1968 section 15...
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FOR THE ARMY, the upcoming budget season is shaping up to be a competition between "boots" and "hardware," even though officials have argued that they...
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Business Editors
DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2002
Catuity, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTTY; ASX: CAT) today announced that it achieved positive cash flo...
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Sports Editors/Business Editors
CHARLESTON, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2003
Golf Trust of America, Inc. (AMEX: GTA) announced today that it h...
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The principles underlying business valuation are well-founded in discounted cash flow techniques: analyze the historical operating performance of the target company, project future operating cash flows after considering anticipated operating enhancements, and discount those estimated flows at the firm's cost of capital. Acquisition value is driven by the projected performance of the underlying business-revenue growth, operating margins, operating tax rates, working capital needs, and capital investment requirements. Companies' general purpose financial statements provide the starting point for most valuation data-gathering exercises that forecast cash flow or residual income.
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In Today's Economic Climate, Where "Cash is King," Many are Still Flying Blind
ATLANTA & LONDON -- Four out of five of the world's largest companies...
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Through the recent economic recession and credit meltdown, companies of all sizes and industries diligently prepared for the worst, making cash flow improvement a top priority. Indeed, 72% of companies, increased or maintained their cash balances during the first part of 2009, according to the Association for Financial Professionals' 2009 Liquidity Survey. At the same time, companies recognize that, beyond short-term cash improvements, longer-term changes are necessary to achieve sustainable cash flow optimization. The purpose of this article is to provide a simple, seven-step cash flow optimization model to help achieve this objective. These are: 1. Centralize cash operations. 2. Concentrate bank relationships and bank accounts. 3. Trace cash availability daily. 4. Implement a rolling ...
...Implement a Rolling Cash Forecast. A 13-week (chree-monrh) cash forecasr helps antic...
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Dynamic financial analysis (DFA) models an insurance company's cash flow in order to forecast assets, liabilities, and ruin probabilities, as well as full balance sheets for different scenarios. In the past years DFA has become an important tool for the analysis of an insurance company's financial situation. In particular, it is a valuable instrument for solvency control, which is now becoming important as regulators encourage insurance companies to determine risk-based capital using internal risk management models. This article considers three aspects: First, we discuss the reasons why DFA is of special importance today. Second, we classify DFA in the context of asset liability management and analyze its fundamental concepts. As a result, we identify several implementation problems tha...
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Software packages can help small to medium business operators manage financial status on the up-to-the-minute basis. Some of the most effective computer programs include Collections Plus (Business), M.Y.O.B., Profit, QuickBooks, Up Your Cash Flow and ACCPAC-Simply Accounting.
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TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- SofTech, Inc. (OTCBB:SOFT), a proven provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, announced today results for its fou...