BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Absorbed Account
- an account that has lost its separate identity by being combined with related accounts in the preparation of a financial statement
Additional Resources
- The internet and the 'e-solated'
- A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Should I Hire a PR Firm or Go In-House?
- Many companies (start-ups in particular) are confronted with the decision of whether to hire an outside PR firm, or to lead their PR efforts internally. These are the associated pros / cons as I see them:In-House PR Pros ... Lower cost than PR firm - A decent PR firm will...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Why Biogenerics Will Survive Genzyme's Problems
- The Food and Drug Administration rejected Genzyme's request to sell a version of its drug Myozyme made in a new factory, a decision some journalists and bloggers insist on casting as a black mark against the very notion of generic biotech drugs. There's just one problem: These...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Robert Half International Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Andrew Steinerman with Bear Stearns. Go ahead, please. Andrew Steinerman - Bear Stearns Good evening, gentlemen. I am going to need a little more explanation on why Protiviti operating margins didn’t increase sequentially even though there...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Administration calls for WIA-plus block grant with Adult Ed money.
- Adult education funding would be absorbed into a large, consolidated grant with workforce training, veterans' employment and other programs under an administration plan presented to the Senate this month. In what was the most complete account to date of the administration's concept,...
- Research articles 2005-04-28
- Investors told: cop it sweet with hike.
- Oct 01, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Investors in Australia's largest listed investment company have been told they must live with higher fees. The chairman of the Australian Foundation Investment Company AFIC, Bruce Teele, says that to date, the company had...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Credit Default Swaps are the Real Stress in Bank Tests
- Stress tests to be revealed Thursday will likely show that while subprime, corporate and commercial real estate loans are doing their fair share of tearing apart bank balance sheets, the real gremlin in the banking engine is the credit default swap, or CDS. Credit default swaps are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Promina talent up for grabs.
- Byline: Eric Johnston Mar 04, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Promina shareholders are expected to endorse a $A7.9bn merger with Suncorp-Metway at a meeting on 5 March 2007. However, the merger is expected to create massive integration problems for...
- Research articles 2007-03-04
- Brazil : CSN has performance with.
- The good performance of automotive, and civil construction sectors boosted the sale of iron and steel sector. CSN Companhia Siderurgica Nacional announced R$146.3mil in profits for 2000 first half of the fiscal period (Jan - June), with a 21,6% growth on its sales in domestic market,...
- Research articles 2000-08-15
- A new era; Hospitals cope with ailing investment portfolios.(The Week in Healthcare)
- Byline: Cinda Becker Hospitals nationwide are grappling with the best way to account for their long-suffering investment portfolios. UPMC Health System in Pittsburgh last week faced the music and said it would take a whopping $161.5 million charge on its investments for...
- Research articles 2003-06-02
- Bank Mergers and the 'Curse of Bigness'
- "Size, we are told, is not a crime. But size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put." -- Louis Brandeis One of the challenges of dealing with financial institutions that are "too big...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Trafigura: A few tweets and freedom of speech is restored
- Twitter users claim historic victory for the power of the internet after gagging attempt on routine act of journalism triggers race among bloggers to reveal all The Guardian story announcing that it had been restricted by an existing high court order from reporting certain parliamentary proceedings...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Chrysler prepares to lay out future under Fiat
- There is a flurry of activity behind closed doors in Auburn Hills as Chrysler Group LLC reinvents itself. While the restructuring is occurring largely out of view, the automaker's long-range plan is expected to soon be made public. There are promises that Chrysler will be more open and transparent than...
- News items 2009-08-24
- The Rise and Rise of the Social Network Q&A
- Sandra Hanchard and I presented a webinar titled ‘The Rise and Rise of the Social network' earlier this week, and due to time constraints we could not answer all the questions posed to us, so the following are our responses. We are interested in your comments on any or all...
- News items 2009-11-11
