Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from June 1991

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from June 1991

Clinging to edge, firms find banks step on fingers. (relationships between banks and financially troubled firms)
June 1, 1991... Bankruptcy is not a popular topic among treasury managers, but it's becoming a familiar one. Those whose companies are floundering are discovering particular strains in managing banking relationships, a situation that usually improves if...

Low rates spur funding plunge into public bond market.
June 1, 1991... Wall Street woke up in the Spring of 1991 to the old, familiar sound of money moving Stock prices were breaking records, new equity offerings were leaping off the shelf, a new issue of junk bonds was oversubscribed and corporate treasurers were...

Inside FASB's walls: mission and the methods. (Financial Accounting Standards Board)
June 1, 1991... For an organization dealing with the seemingly placid, even stodgy field of accounting, the Financial Accounting Standards Board generates an unexpected amount of intense attention from various groups in the business world. Just who is...

FASB seeks to capture debt, equity distinctions, off-balance-sheet risks. (Financial Accounting Standards Board)
June 1, 1991... The FASB financial instruments project has the potential to change significantly the financial statements of virtually every company in the United States. Probably no other FASB project will affect so many companies and deal with such broad,...

Other than financial instruments project: what treasurers should know about accounting changes. (Financial Accounting Standards Board and Securities and Exchange Commission regulations)
June 1, 1991... Several impending accounting changes are likely to affect corporate treasures, some of them in unexpected ways. The changes are coming from not only the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which dictates the contents of the financial...

Treasury Island: peril of the unintegrated. (information technology) (includes related article on information management)
June 1, 1991... Traditionally, a corporate treasury managed financial resources. The emerging treasury of the future will manage information. A treasury that fails to recognize and use the new information technologies to communicate with its internal and...

Can your insurer withstand hard times?
June 1, 1991... In the wake of the savings and loan debacle, other industries with shaky finances have come under public scrutiny. Particular attention has been focused on the insurance industry. Newspaper articles have addressed the problems caused by the...

Putting muscle into a corporate turnaround. (financial management)
June 1, 1991... Keeping a business solvent these days is no easy matter. In fact the business failure rate of the 1980s--94 of 10,000--is 241% higher than the rate that prevailed from 1940 through 1979 (39 per 10,000) and even 9.3% higher than the failure...

Keep custody decisions on the fairway. (custodians of securities) (Basis Points) (column)
June 1, 1991... The easiest way to catch Michael's attention is to be a golf ball. Once, when I threatened to take up golf. Michael advised, "Take up crack cocaine instead. It's cheaper and less disruptive to your life." Michael plays golf a lot. He...

Pension plans draw 'simplification' and 'reform' sharks. (Washington Watch) (column)
June 1, 1991... The movement underway in Washington to simplify pension rules is expected to seek legislative and regulatory changes aimed at injecting at least a modicum or reason into the corporate compliance process. "It all seems so logical, but the...

A yellow light for M&A activity. (mergers and acquisitions) (Capital Ideas) (column)
June 1, 1991... After being in the doldrums most of last year after the junk-bond market collapsed, merger and acquisition activity is on the rise again. With the quick and successful end to the Persian Gulf war, the stock market soaring to new highs and...