BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Cash Discount
- a discount offered to a customer who pays for goods or services with cash, or who pays an invoice within a particular period
Additional Resources
- Porsche offers incentives in USA; Reversing last year's pledge, automaker offers cash discount.(News)
- Byline: Diana T. Kurylko NASHVILLE, Tennessee, USA - Faced with a glut of sports cars last summer, Porsche Cars North America quietly did what its executives swore they would never do again - offer customer incentives. To cut bloated inventories,...
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- Cash Flows and Discount Rates, Industry and Country Effects, and Co-Movement in Stock Returns
- This paper examines the relative importance of global, country-specific, and industry specific factors in both the cash flow and discount rate components of equity returns between 1995 and 2003. The framework draws upon previously separate literatures on country versus industry effects and (forward- looking) cash flow versus discount rate components...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Cox initiates tender offer.(Cox Communications Inc. initiated a cash tender offer for its subordinated discount debentures)(Brief Article)
- ATLANTA -- Cox Communications Inc. initiated a cash tender offer for its subordinated discount debentures due in 2020. ATLANTA -- Cox Communications Inc. initiated a cash tender offer for its subordinated discount debentures due in 2020.
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Forecasting Cash Flow: Mathematics Of The Payout Ratio
- Most people realize the importance of Discounted Cash Flow DCF method for business valuation. It is considered the most comprehensive and theoretically correct valuation model. Experts suggest that with the help of the model, capital gains can be converted into cash at any time. Hence, it is consistent to discount...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Big increase in discount stores as recession bites in affluent areas
- Thursday, 03 September 2009 Discount retailers have increased by 60% during the last two years, according to new research by the Local Data Company backed by the British Property Federation BPF.Just under half of the 1,423 discount stores across Great Britain are in London and the south-east and for every...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Sierra Wireless: Scrutinizing That Discount to NAV
- Saj Karsan submits: Just two months ago, Sierra Wireless SWIR, a provider of wireless solutions, was trading at a large discount to its net current asset value (NAV). With cash of $270 million, A/R of $67 million, and inventory of $33 million, the company's current assets covered its total liabilities...
- External links 2009-05-23
- A Primer On The Quantitative Marketability Discount Model
- From the executive summary: ‘The value of a business today is generally expressed as the present value of all expected future cash flows to be derived from the enterprise, discounted to the present, at an appropriate discount rate. As a result, the Quantitative Marketability Discount Model QMDM was designed to...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Advance Auto Parts To Acquire Discount Auto Parts, Inc
- Business Editors/Automotive Writers ROANOKE, Va. & LAKELAND, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 7, 2001 Advance Auto Parts and Discount Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:DAP) announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for Advance to acquire Discount in a merger transaction. As a result of the merger, Discount shareholders will own...
- Research articles 2001-08-07
- Teleport Communications Group Inc., TCG, Elects to Commence the Accrual of Cash Interest On Its 11 - 1/8% Senior Discount Notes
- DAYTON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 28, 1998--Teleport Communications Group Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:TCGI) announced today its election to commence the accrual and payment of cash interest on TCG's 11-1/8% Senior Discount Notes due July 1, 2007 (CUSIP No. 879463-AC-1). The accrual of interest payments will begin on July 1, 1998 and cash interest will...
- Research articles 1998-05-28
- Sears: It's a Discount Store, Not a Hedge Fund
- A store is a store, not an investment vehicle. Proof of this comes via the miserable quarter Sears Holdings just posted, capped by a $56 million loss. Comps at Sears stores fell 9.8 percent, while same-store Kmart sales were down 7.1 percent, in a quarter when other discounters (Costco and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Get Cash Back with Live Search
- For years, I've been a sucker for the Discover Card, even though my experiences with the card often mimic this Futurama scene between Fry and a store clerk in the year 3000: Fry: "Do you take Visa?" Clerk: "Visa hasn't existed for five hundred years." ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Connecticut gas station owner offers discount to customers who pay cash.
- By Pam Dawkins, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 3--BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The days when gas station owners could offer one price for cash purchases and another for those made on credit are gone, but Sam Dedhia has found a...
- Research articles 2004-09-03
- GM's Discount Promotion Could Boost Satellite Radio Subscription Numbers
- Tyler Savery submits: General Motors GM has announced that all 2008 and some 2009 vehicles will be available to everyday consumers for the employee discount. The Employee Discount promotion started in 2005 and boosted GM’s sales in a big way. Other auto makers have offered similar promotions as well...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Advance and Discount to form new No. 2 - Advance Auto Parts' to buy Discount Auto Parts - Brief Article
- ROANOKE, VA. -- Advance Auto Parts' pending acquisition of rival Discount Auto Parts would strengthen its position as the No. 2 aftermarket retailer and more closely nip at the heels of No. 1 player AutoZone, especially in the southern United States. The proposed merger, announced Aug. 7, would make Advance...
- Research articles 2001-08-20
- Future Values Of Multiple Cash Flows
- The article is about discounted cash flow valuation which is one part of decision making for financial accounting. Discount the last amount back one period and add them up as you go, or discount each amount to time and then add them all up.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Exxon dealers to get $1.3 billion.(TOP OF THE NEWS)(Brief Article)
- About 11,000 Exxon gasoline dealers who maintained they were cheated on a company-sponsored cash discount program in the 1980s and 1990s will begin collecting up to $1.3 billion after a Supreme Court victory in June. About 11,000 Exxon gasoline dealers who maintained they...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Elron Announces Commencement by Discount Investment Corporation of Cash Tender Offer for Certain Elron Shares
- TEL AVIV, Israel -- Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ & TASE: ELRN) today announced that Discount Investment Corporation Ltd. ("DIC"), has advised Elron and publicly announced that DIC is today commencing a tender offer to purchase up to 4,440,000 ordinary shares of Elron for $12 per share, net to the...
- Research articles 2006-10-25
- Elron Announces Results of Discount Investment Cash Tender Offer for Certain of Elron's Shares
- TEL AVIV, Israel -- Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE:ELRN) today announced that further to Elron's announcement on October 25, 2006, Discount Investment Corporation Ltd. ("DIC") has publicly announced that, pursuant to its tender offer for ordinary shares of Elron, it is purchasing 352,183 ordinary shares for $12 per...
- Research articles 2006-11-30
- Mortgage sellers dangle cash-back home loans
- THE DEADLINE for fixing up a new mortgage before 1 October is getting uncomfortably close. Mortgages and remortgages completed after that date will qualify only for a much reduced level of state support if the holder falls ill or loses his or her job. But ahead of the deadline there...
- Research articles 1995-07-23
- Lloyds Tests Waters on Cash Call
- By Myles Neligan and Raji MenonLONDON (Reuters UK) - Lloyds Banking Group LLOY could launch one of the world's largest cash calls as early as next week after talking to shareholders on Friday to gauge their appetite for the fundraising.The part-nationalised lender approached its shareholders on Thursday, investor sources said,...
- News items 2009-10-30
