BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Cash Flow Life
- a lifestyle characterized by working for individual project fees rather than a regular salary
Additional Resources
- Avoiding Cash-Flow Problems
- Cash flow is the life blood of any business, and a core indicator of an enterprise's financial health and viability. While not a failsafe way to appraise performance, cash flow is as good a barometer as any to quickly judge the financial performance of an entire company, an operating unit,...
- Articles 2007-11-14
- Cash Flow Planning For Life
- The most basic aspect of financial fitness involves planning for adequate cash flow to cover ongoing expenses and major purchases. Financially speaking, life can be viewed as a timeline with a series of cash inflows and cash outflows. For adults still relying on wages to provide income, prudent cash flow...
- White papers 2008-02-08
- Facebook's Positive Cash Flow: Social Media Means Business
- Well, we don't have Facebook to kick around anymore. By recently turning cash flow positive a year ahead of plan with more than 300 million global users and scale that advertisers crave, it has taken a major step to transforming social media from a fad into a business. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Free Cash Flow: Free, But Not Always Easy
- The best things in life are free, and the same holds true for cash flow. Smart investors love companies that produce plenty of free cash flow FCF. It signals a company's ability to pay debt, pay dividends, buy back stock, and facilitate the growth of business--all important undertakings from an...
- White papers 2003-09-17
- BP Sees Cash Flow Balance at $50-$60 Oil for 2009
- Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: Estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of $74 a share is more than 70% above stock price for moderate-debt, hold-rated BP plc BP. Released today, fourth quarter results displayed lower unlevered cash flow Ebitda driven by crude oil and natural gas prices. Our valuation capitalizes...
- External links 2009-03-10
- Lender on the block? That's the buzz around cash-flow lender Antares as business cycle peaks.(News)(Antares Leveraged Capital Corp., a unit of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to be acquired by Heller Financial Inc. )
- Byline: KATE RYAN Just as cash-flow lending appears to be near a cyclical peak, it may be a good time for the owner of one of Chicago's biggest such lenders to cash out. The possible sale of Antares Leveraged Capital Corp., a...
- Research articles 2005-08-15
- Downstream Refining Helps Marathon Oil's Cash Flow
- Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: Hold-rated Marathon Oil MRO offers unlevered appreciation potential of 54% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 and levered appreciation potential of 82% to Net Present Value (NPV) of $54 a share. During the first quarter, according to results released today, MRO generated cash from...
- External links 2009-05-31
- Commercial Property's Cash Flow Issues Not Limited to Maguire Properties
- The WSJ reported in this morning's paper that real estate investment trust Maguire Properties MPG has notified the holders of $1.06B worth of commercial debt that it faces "imminent default" on it's obligations. Aside from the fact that Maguire's lenders are taking a bath on this one, this latest piece...
- External links 2009-08-10
- BP's Downstream Cash Increase Offsets Upstream Cash Decrease
- Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: Hold-rated BP plc BP offers unlevered appreciation potential of 51% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 and levered appreciation potential of 77% to Net Present Value (NPV) of $74 a share. During the first quarter, according to results released today, BP generated cash from...
- External links 2009-05-26
- "Why Should You Take the Fall? A big client's bankruptcy shouldn't mean life or death for your business: Insure yourself with a UCC filing
- "With the present accounting scandals and bankruptcies, entrepreneurs can face problems in cash flow which ultimately leads to bad debt. Fortunately, recent changes to the Uniform Commercial Code UCC makes it easier to protect yourself as both a creditor and a debtor. By making use of the UCC laws, and...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Canadian Natural Resources Sees First Welcome Cash from Horizon
- Kurt Wulff McDep Associates submits: Buy-recommended Canadian Natural Resources CNQ offers unlevered appreciation potential of 20% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 where stock price would equal Net Present Value (NPV) of US $80 a share. On July 14 we reduced NPV from US$85 when we reduced estimated Present...
- External links 2009-09-11
- A Day (or Two) in the Life of a US Dollar
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that since certain international companies started using global liquidity management services, life has been looking up for the US dollar. Extensive cash concentration possibilities, global liquidity management, enhanced yield investment opportunities: the US dollar can now lead a fully mobile and rewarding life, if...
- White papers 2003-06-05
- Insurers eye American Skandia's VA securitization. (American Skandia Life Assurance Corp.'s variable annuities)
- American Skandia Life Assurance Corp. has issued a debt offering worth $42 million to securitize packaged fees for a block of the company's variable annuities. The securitization is believed to be a first in the variable annuities field. Variable annuities need a large cash flow to pay financial advisers. American...
- Research articles 1997-01-13
- Schering-Plough cuts.(Life Sciences)(Brief Article)
- CITING CASH flow problems and downward revenue pressures, Schering-Plough Corp. SP unveiled a bleak near-term outlook. SP says its second half 2003 EPS is "likely to be lower" than first half EPS, which analysts say would mean that CITING...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Life Insurance Planning
- Determining life insurance needs involves an analysis of the potential financial burdens created by the death of an individual. Such financial burdens could involve the need to meet immediate one-time obligations and/or provide a financial asset base to meet ongoing cash flow needs. Life insurance could also play a role...
- White papers 2009-03-04
- Under Congressional attack: corporate-owned life insurance
- The use of corporate-owned life insurance ("COLI") contracts as tax-advantaged funding vehicles has recently emerged as an important issue in Washington. Both the House and Senate have passed COLI legislative proposals that will change the deductibility of these policies.In a leveraged COLI transaction, a corporate owner and beneficiary of a...
- Research articles 1996-02-01
- Fitch Rates Nationwide Life's Global Funding Program Debt 'AA-'
- CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned 'AA-' ratings to Nationwide Life Global Funding I programs' outstanding issues specified below. The notes are secured by funding agreements issued by Nationwide Life Insurance Company NLIC, which carries an 'AA-' insurer financial strength rating by Fitch. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The...
- Research articles 2004-11-16
- Securitization of life insurance assets and liabilities
- INTRODUCTION Securitization is one of the most important innovations of modern finance. The securitization process involves the isolation of a pool of assets or rights to a set of cash flows and the repackaging of the asset or cash flows into securities that are traded in capital markets. The...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- British life insurers seek eight-billion-pound merger
- LONDON AFP — British life insurance groups Friends Provident and Resolution said on Monday that they were in advanced talks on a merger worth 8.31 billion pounds (12.4 billion euros, 17.1 billion dollars). "Friends Provident and Resolution believe a merger would create significant value for both sets of shareholders...
- Research articles 2007-07-23
- Petro-Canada's Capital Program Up 28% Over 2007; Continued Focus on Long-Life Projects
- Highlights - $5.3 billion capital program planned: focus on long-life projects that provide sustainable cash flow - Upstream production guidance range for 2008 of 390,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) to 420,000 boe/d Petro-Canada's Board of Directors today approved a capital and exploration expenditure program...
- Research articles 2007-12-13
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