Corporate Cashflow Magazine articles from June 1992

Corporate Cashflow Magazine archives from June 1992

Tactics vary on how, when to take bitter FAS 106 cure. (Financial Accounting Standard 106) (Trends: Investment & Benefits)
June 1, 1992... Adopting Financial Accounting Standard 106 and recognizing the company's liability for postretirement medical obligations is a hard pill to swallow. Companies should evaluate potential side effects before deciding how to take their medicine....

Companies band together to battle health care prices. (Trends: Investments & Benefits)
June 1, 1992... Companies used to going head-to-head as competitors are working hand-in-hand against a common enemy: pernicious medical costs that make their bottom lines anemic. A Memphis group seems to have found a cure. Memphis Business Group on Health...

Bailing employees out of failed GICs is risky business. (guaranteed investment contracts) (Trends: Investment & Benefits)
June 1, 1992... Helping employees whose pensions are entangled in defaulted guaranteed investment contracts is like finding your way through a maze, plan sponsors are discovering. "The situation is unprecedented," exclaims John Marshall, associate general...

823 format removes manual delays from remittance posting. (ANSI 823 lockbox reporting format) (Trends: Cash Management)
June 1, 1992... Simple solutions work best sometimes, says David Reynolds, assistant controller of Comdisco, Rosemont, IL. A simple program to speed up and simplify Comdisco's accounts receivable processing has reduced account reconciliation time from two...

Vancouver listing offers cheap, quick path to public equity. (Trends: Financing)
June 1, 1992... Pssst, buddy. Wanna sell your privately owned company to a failed canadian mining concern, raise millions of dollars in an IPO and still keep the current owners in control? It's possible, and it isn't as crazy as it sounds. A number of...

Prompt-pay discounts too costly, but hard to shed. (Trends: Credit & Accounts Recievable)
June 1, 1992... Low interest rates have inflated the cost of prompt-pay discounts, but few vendors are making adjustments. A company that sells on 30-day terms but offers a 1% discount for payments received within 20 days effectively pays 36% interest to...

Treasury systems: tapping technology to make money. (includes list of services provided by workstation vendors) (Cover Story)
June 1, 1992... It's easy to buy too much or too little. The key is finding the system that fits your needs. Today many treasury manager's are inundated with data, not all of it readily usable. Hardcopy reports, paper schedules and telephone calls tend to...

Finding gold in them thar hills: private capital starts to surface for borderline deals.
June 1, 1992... Now that financing runs on NAIC tracks, funding the NAIC-3 issuer has become the real challenge In late January, Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. of Toronto, Canada's largest cable TV group, announced that it had lined u commitments from 25...

Treasur-ring. (treasury professionals answer questions relating to treasury management)
June 1, 1992... Real answers to real questions as treasury pros discuss EDI costs, the value of forecasting software and whether small companies should use wholesale lockboxes. The following discussions are a result of Treasur-Ring, a telephone...

Outpouring of insured munis justifies close look at insurers. (insured municipal bonds) (Basis Points) (Column)
June 1, 1992... Barry's company just installed electronic answering. I hate it! Whatever number I dial, I get the same lady with the IQ of a ladybug. We talk so often, you'd think she would remember me. But no, she repeats the same litany of options each time....

SEC launches program to boost financing for emerging businesses. (Washington Watch) (Column)
June 1, 1992... A lingering recession and stubborn credit crunch (coincidentally, in a presidential election year) are prompting the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue several proposals that would make it easier for small businesses to raise capital...

Bank loan market stirs, providing borrowers with competitive prices. (Capital Ideas) (Column)
June 1, 1992... Borrowing funds from commercial banks may be just a bit easier now than it was in the latter half of 1991. The essential elements of a flight to quality ("Capital Ideas," September 1991, p. 60) are still in place, despite the signs of an end to...

To upgrade or not to upgrade: Lotus 2.4 poses the question. (upgrading treasury software) (Treasury Technology) (Column)
June 1, 1992... Last month, we discussed some of the advantages of off-the-shelf software. Another consideration in purchasing treasury software is deciding whether or when to buy the latest upgrade. The competition among software providers is intense, as...