Cash Dividend Cash payment of dividend to shareholders of a company. Dividend amount is dependent on profits earned and is taxable. … [Read more...]
Cash Equivalent
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Cash Equivalent Liquid short-term security that is considered as a cash equivalent. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow
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Cash Flow Also termed as cash earnings. Earnings prior to adjustment of costs like non cash charges, depreciation, and amortization. Cash/ funds flow from operations by real estate or trusts indicates the dividend payment ability. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow after Interest and Taxes
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Cash Flow after Interest and Taxes Formula: Net income + depreciation. Used to evaluate general health of the company. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow Coverage Ratio
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Cash Flow Coverage Ratio Shows how many times the earnings before taxes, interest, rentals, depreciation covers the financial obligations towards various items like interest, rental, preferred stock dividends and principal payments. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow from Financing Activities
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Cash Flow from Financing Activities Item in cash flow statement representing external activities such as distribution of cash dividends, modification of loans, or issuance or sale of more stock. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow from Operations
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Cash Flow from Operations Net cash inflow arising directly from regular operations of a company, excluding extraordinary items, for example, sale of fixed assets. Calculated as non-cash expenditure that was removed during net income calculation plus net income. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow Matching
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Cash Flow Matching Also termed portfolio dedication. An alternative strategy to multi-period immunization. The manager matches maturities of each liability stream element to ensure all necessary cash flows, working from the final liability. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow per Common Share
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Cash Flow per Common Share Formula: cash flow generated by operations less dividends paid on preferred stock divided by outstanding number of common shares. … [Read more...]
Cash Flow Time-Line
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Cash Flow Time-Line Line representing the company’s operations and cash flows over a specific time period for a firm. … [Read more...]
Cash-Flow Break Even Point
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Cash-Flow Break Even Point Levels below which a company needs to make arrangements for additional financing or should liquidate some assets so that fixed costs are met. … [Read more...]
Cash Management Bill
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Cash Management Bill Treasury bills with very short maturity sold by it to raise cash for a few days when cash balances are low. … [Read more...]
Cash Markets
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Cash Markets Refer: Derivative markets. Also termed spot markets. Marketplace where security or instrument is delivered immediately. … [Read more...]
Cash Offer
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Cash Offer Public offer wherein the equity issue is sold to every investor interested in the issue. … [Read more...]
Cash Ratio
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Cash Ratio Cash held by a firm as a proportion of total assets. … [Read more...]
Cash Settlement Contracts
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Cash Settlement Contracts Futures contracts settling for cash instead of involving actual physical delivery of commodities or securities. For example, stock index futures. … [Read more...]
Cash Surrender Value
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Cash Surrender Value Also termed cash value, surrender value, policyholder's equity. Amount paid by insurance company to policyholder when policy is terminated before maturity voluntarily or the event insured occurs. … [Read more...]
Cash Transaction
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Cash Transaction As opposed to forward transactions, a transaction wherein the exchange takes place immediately. … [Read more...]
Cash-Equivalent Items
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Cash-Equivalent Items Investments made on temporary basis in short term, low risk instruments like T bills by investing cash that is in excess currently. … [Read more...]
Cash-Surrender Value
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Cash-Surrender Value Amount payable by insurance company when a whole life policy is ended by the policyholder. … [Read more...]
