Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from August 1993

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from August 1993

Put your money on the right horses to win short-term investment payoff. (Cover Story)
August 1, 1993... As staff ranks are thinned in most departments, including treasury, the importance of adding quantifiable value grows. Financial costs tend to be 1.5% of sales. To help justify that cost, more companies are managing their corporate cash...

Banks or brokers: choosing a stable for your investments. (Cover Story)
August 1, 1993... Banks or brokers--which are best qualified to provide safekeeping for your investment portfolio? Call us biased, but we think the answer is clear; banks are better, hands down, and for some pretty good reasons: * Safety, * Convenience...

Floating a stock offering: new buoyancy from the SEC.
August 1, 1993... In July 1992, as traditional capital sources were drying up, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted the Small Business Initiatives (SBI), aimed at making it cheaper and easier for small to midsize companies, public and private, to...

Choose floating-rate index to prepare for a rate rise. (Basis Points) (Column)
August 1, 1993... Being a sensible '90s kind of guy with a lingering ,80s affection for the big life, Jerry recently installed a new mobile satellite phone in his Plymouth Satellite. "It's the latest model, the most technologically advanced in the industry....

New CP-funded loans broaden market but aren't always cheap. (commercial paper) (Capital Ideas) (Column)
August 1, 1993... Special-purpose corporations (SPCs) have been issuing commercial paper backed by the pooled trade receivables of a group of companies since Citicorp invented the arrangement in 1983. Cheaper debt is one of the main reasons why companies...

Corporations feel effect of new stockholder powers. (Washington Watch) (Column)
August 1, 1993... Boards of directors are beginning to pay attention to their institutional shareholders, a group that until recently got the corporate cold shoulder. Shareholder activists protested that they were getting the shaft, and last October the...