Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from April 1993

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from April 1993

Risk aversion keeps trade credit tight, collections brisk. (Trends: Credit & Accounts Receivable)
April 1, 1993... The notorious credit crunch has filtered through to corporate trade credit policies, resulting in a more discriminating extension of trade credit, a more aggressive in-house effort to collect past-due receivables and a reduction in the accounts...

Bank-corporate team reengineers tighter cash management. (Trends: Cash Management)
April 1, 1993... What started as a simple effort to consolidate eight treasury workstations has grown into a complex bank-corporate partnership that is reengineering one company's cash management function and radically changing who does what. Sun-Del Services...

Assembling the workers' compensation puzzle. (Cover Story)
April 1, 1993... First Union places managed care at the center of the picture, using inside and outside resources to reduce claims and cut costs. After years of uninterrupted escalation, workers' compensation costs continue to plague employers. For some...

Risk management information systems. (includes directory of vendors)
April 1, 1993... What to consider before you take the plunge. After 10 years of expansion, the market for risk management information systems has hit its stride. Competition among vendors is intense, and products are changing to reflect a wider variety of...

Equity buy-backs.
April 1, 1993... Why strong companies are using cash to buy back stock, even though share prices are high and leverage is unfashionable. On November 16, 1992, Atlanta-based Equifax Inc. announced a tender offer for 10.5 million of its shares, with the price to...

Market heats up: leveraged financings: cold ashes yield new flames.
April 1, 1993... The fires of leveraged financing have staged a remarkable recovery. High-yield bonds, once declared cold ashes, enjoyed a record 1992 with over $38 billion of new bonds issued, more than three times the amount issued in 1991. Cash-flow-based...

Buying tax-exempt securities with tax-deductible debt. (Basis Points) (Column)
April 1, 1993... A good April Fool's joke is an absurdity that manages to disguise itself as a reality. I once spent much of the day persuading colleagues that Walter Cronkite had been appointed to the Federal Reserve Board. Federal income taxes also might...

States slap roadblock on SEC's small business initiatives. (Capital Ideas) (Column)
April 1, 1993... Last August, right before the Republican National Convention, the Securities and Exchange Commission released the final version of its "Small Business Initiatives," a package of rule changes that were supposed to make it easier and less expensive...

Corporations fight to avoid state regulation of health care. (Washington Watch) (Column)
April 1, 1993... While the health care reforms being floated by President Clinton--tied to combinations of employer-mandated coverage, global budgets and managed competition--aren't likely to garner much corporate enthusiasm, encouraging states to experiment with...

Banks open treasury Windows of opportunity. (corporate treasury Windows programs) (Treasury Technology) (Column)
April 1, 1993... Last month we discussed the Windows environment in general and version 3.1 in particular. Our present topic will be the Windows influence on treasury systems. Of the Windows products being offered to corporate treasury managers, I have seen...