Business assets

Asset-based loans are an alternative to traditional bank lending because they serve borrowers with risk characteristics typically outside a bank's ..... level.

Banks typically require less collateral controls and monitoring but more financial ......

In financial accounting, financial assets are cash and other assets that convert directly into ..... amounts of cash.

The most ..... financial asset is cash, followed by cash equivalents, marketable securities, and receivables.

Interest is a contractual amount that accumulates day by day; the amount of interest ..... over a time period may be computed by the formula Principal x Rate x Time.

The satellite portion allows the investor to select more aggressive and often less liquid strategies that have ..... correlations with the core component and provide the portfolio manager with the flexibility to generate attractive returns.

..... receipt is issued by an approved depository to a clearing corporation on behalf of an investor evidencing ownership of the underlying call, interest, stock or bond; upon assignment, the depository agrees to deliver the underlying property to the clearing corporation against the aggregate assignment value.

..... evolve rules that depend on technical market indicators only; in contrast, fundamentalists evolve rules that only take fundamental indicators into account.

Once considered simply a consequence of business activities, cash has evolved into a strategic asset, valued as a hedge against market volatility and amassed to stay ..... in a world of business opportunities.

This ..... change in how cash assets are viewed and treated has implications for corporate treasurers, who are looking to minimise risks, optimise returns, get the most from their cash portfolios and make the most of their own valuable time.