BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Availability Float
- money that is available to a company because checks that it has written have not yet been charged against its accounts
Additional Resources
- Fed Won't Float new Check Hold Limits In Wake Of Check 21
- The Federal Reserve last month rejected requests by lawmakers to shorten check hold times, saying it is too soon after enactment of the Check 21 law to warrant changes to its funds availability or Reg CC, availability of funds and collection of checks.In The Federal Reserve last month rejected requests...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Final move for stock indices to free float.
- Sep 30, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The last day of September 2002 marked the end of an era on the Australian Stock Exchange. From 1 October, Australian indices will move into line with the global equities market, officially adopting a...
- Research articles 2002-09-30
- Remote Capture Is Simplifying the Way Some Organizations Route Checks: Learn How It Is Helping These Companies Lower Costs, Increase Funds Availability and Improve Cash Flow
- While opportunities such as the facilitation of pure image exchange are likely to take at least a couple of years for consumer payments and even longer for corporate payments, some organizations are already experiencing cost savings and faster access to funds using only a scanner, an Internet connection and a...
- White papers 2005-03-31
- Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you [operator instructions]. Your first question is from Ageline M. Sedita with Lehman Brothers. Ageline M. Sedita - Lehman Brothers Thanks. First glad to see the quarterly special dividends certainly are positive. The question, your thoughts of John on the jackup of market...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Stocks are Special Too: An Analysis of the Equity Lending Market
- This paper characterizes the equity lending market in general, and in three situations where the availability and cost of loans are potentially important: initial public offerings, merger speculation, and long-short "factor" portfolio construction. Specialness generally decreases with the float and increases with performance, but IPOs trading below their offering prices...
- White papers 2001-06-30
- EMC Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Aaron Rakers with A. G. Edwards. Aaron Rakers - A.G. Edwards Thanks, guys, and congratulations on a good quarter. I guess I'll just start by asking, David, how do you look at the cash position of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- AFS Launches Service Aimed to Help Banks Improve Check Clearing Operations in Check 21 Environment
- EXTON, Pa. -- A combination of maintaining image- and paper-based infrastructures, more complex Federal Reserve pricing and operational changes and an expected decline in revenue generated from float and traditional check collection services equal a myriad of choices for banks in the next several years according to Automated Financial Systems...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- MSCI ends the weighting game.
- Apr 15, 2002 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Morgan Stanley Capital International has released the final weightings for its new free-float index. Analysts expect the new weightings will lead to a fresh rush of weighting-related trading, which could increase funds flow...
- Research articles 2002-04-15
- Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as software markets
- By Prince McLeanPublished: 05:00 PM EST Google's Android is working to match the iPhone App Store's mobile software market but with fewer restrictions for developers. This article is the fourth in a series examining how Android stacks up in comparison to the iPhone as a smartphone software platform, with this...
- News items 2009-11-21
