Dividend cover is calculated by dividing the company's cash flow from operations by the dividend.

Measurement of cash flow can be used for calculating other parameters that give information on a company's value and situation.

# Operational cash flows: Cash received or expended as a result of the company's internal business activities.

Although the company may have sufficient funds available in its account, remitting payment entirely from the acquiring company's cash on hand is unusual.

The failure of the Federated buyout was a result of excessive debt financing, comprising about 97 % of the total consideration, which led to large interest payments that exceeded the company's operating cash flow.

Things change when Bud learns that Gekko, in fact, plans to dissolve the company and sell off Bluestar's assets in order to access cash in the company's overfunded pension plan, leaving Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed.

On January 28, 2002, Global Crossing announced that it had signed a letter of intent with Hutchison Whampoa and ST Telemedia for a cash investment in a joint majority stake in the company's equity in connection with a restructuring of the company's balance sheet.

Flush with cash during the 1980s, General Electric also moved into financing and financial services, which in 2005 accounted for about 45 % of the company's net earnings.

( After Black was indicted in 2005 on charges of looting Hollinger, some speculated his desire to squeeze cash out of the company's properties helped hasten the demise of the original City News.

# Statement of cash flows: reports on a company's cash flow activities, particularly its operating, investing and financing activities.

Notably the Eurobell acquisition had been funded by an equity based deal, with a cash option, the poor performance of the company's stock meant that the cash option was favourable, and the company was not able to cover the call.

There were quality control problems, as well as persistent rumors of the company's demise because of its precarious cash flow.

Six Flags CEO Mark Shapiro said that the company's problem was the declining attendance and cash flow created by his new management initiatives.

* Quick ratio, also known as acid-test ratio or acid-test liquidity ratio, a measure of a company's cash liquidity

The company's co-founder Rudolf Ritter was arrested in Liechtenstein for laundering cocaine cash for the Cali cartel.

In November 2002, Lai Sun Development, which was heavily indebted following the HK $ 7 billion acquisition of the Furama Hotel at the height of the property bubble in 1997, announced that it would sell its 32. 75 % stake to the company's chief executive, Chan Wing-kee ( 陳永棋 ), for HK $ 360 million in cash.

The company's cash cows were two series, The Sword of Damacles ( sic ), a parody of mythological adventure series such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Beaver Creek, a parody of Canadian period dramas such as Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea.

In his report Jones upheld Van Egmond's position that the Canada Company's practice of paying debts, partially in cash and partially in ' land credits ', did not abide with the terms of the company's original purchase agreement, when they acquired the lands from the Crown.

If the market fairly prices a company's shares at $ 50 / share, and the company buys back 100 shares for $ 5, 000, it now has $ 5, 000 less cash but there are 100 fewer shares outstanding ; the net effect should be that the underlying value of each share is unchanged.

Dublin Bus follows an " exact fare – no change " policy on almost all buses for passengers who pay cash fares – to minimise the risk of staff being robbed, passengers must place the exact fare in coins ( notes are not accepted as the counting machines in the garages cannot process them ) in the fare box before the ticket is issued ; in the case of overpayment a " change ticket " is issued which can only be exchanged for cash at the company's head office on O ' Connell Street.

Hoping to stop pumping river water, the water company's superintendent lit a fire at the exit pipe of the reservoir, allowing water to flow freely downstream and contaminate the town's water supply.

Cash flow problems caused by Ewart Abner's tapping the company treasury to cover personal gambling debts led to the company's active demise ; Vee-Jay had been forced to temporarily cease operations in the second half of 1963, leading to royalty disputes with the Four Seasons and EMI.

It is one of the best measures of a company's cash flow and is used for valuing both public and private companies.

In respect to the auditors ' qualification of the company's accounts for the period ended March 31, 2005, about undisputed amounts payable in respect of income-tax ( Rs 4. 44 crore ), dividend tax ( Rs 2. 51 crore ), wealth tax ( Rs 0. 11crore ), TDS ( Rs 6. 77 crore ) and customs duty ( Rs 1. 68 crore ), the Chairman and Managing director, Mr Ajit G. Nambiar said the company had earlier not been able to remit the dues because of cash flow constraint but in July 2005, remitted the entire dues except Rs 1. 26 crore in customs duty.

An increase in DSO can result in cash flow problems, and may result in a decision to increase the creditor company's bad debt reserve.

) would likely have decreased net income due to depreciation ; however, as depreciation is a non-cash expense the operating cash flow would provide a more accurate picture of the company's current cash holdings than the artificially low net income.

While theoretically amortization is used to account for the decreasing value of an intangible asset over its useful life, in practice, many companies will " amortize " what would otherwise be one-time expenses by listing them as a capital expense on the cash flow statement and paying off the cost through amortization, thereby improving the company's net income in the fiscal year or quarter of the expense.

Consider that a perpetuity growth rate exceeding the annualized growth of the S & P 500 and / or the U. S. GDP implies that the company's cash flow will outpace and eventually absorb these rather large values.

According to their Report to Policyholders 2007, in early 2007 the company's managers became concerned about the state of credit markets, so in February 2007 " based on our belief that the markets were acting irrationally " New York Life decided to move much of its cash flow into safer investments such as US Treasury bonds.

His successor, Norio Ohga, had joined the company after sending Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of the company's tape recorders.

The UK's Financial Services Authority stated that the fine related to the company's inadequate bribery and corruption controls, claiming that between January 14, 2005 and September 30, 2007 Aon had failed to properly assess the risks involved in its dealings with overseas firms and individuals.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

In the early 1950s, Armand set aside his dream to focus on developing his company's other tracked vehicles, but by the end of the decade, smaller, more efficient engines had been developed and were starting to come onto the market.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

The FAA also discovered 82 other aircraft parts that had been incorrectly made and not detected by the company's quality assurance.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the computer press had often sought Commodore, one of the industry's leading players, and its colorful management for information, despite the company's notorious reputation.

During three out of the last six quarters of Pfeiffer's tenure, the company's revenues or earnings had missed expectations.

Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.

Many of the company's proofs were rushed out the door and then much of the company's effort had to be spent on maintenance.

The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been ( William Humphrey, 1914 ), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.

In 1979 Sonia brought a High Court action against Harrison who had in the meantime transferred 75 % of the company's voting stock to himself and had dissipated much of the value of the company.

The French appointed Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, who had shown great heroism during the raids, as commander of the company's captured posts.

By the release of Version 6 Unix ( 1975 ), the game had been ported to Unix C. An implementation of Hunt the Wumpus was typically included with MBASIC, Microsoft's BASIC interpreter for CP / M and one of the company's first products.

Things were going so well for the company, that in 1973, the company's German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open one in Koblenz.

Prior to nationalisation, the island's telegraph operations had been performing poorly and the company's share price valued it at around £ 100.

Unfortunately, by the time the ECS made its retail debut, an internal shake-up at the top levels of Mattel Electronics ' management had caused the company's focus to shift away from hardware add-ons in favor of software, and the ECS received very little further marketing push.

This ended an association with the trade which had existed from the company's inception, having inherited this area of business from the original Brunner, Mond & Co. Ltd ).

Leonard Goldenson, who had headed the chain since 1938, remained as the new company's president.

Fuhrmann's replacement, Peter Schutz, decided that the models should be sold side by side, feeling that the 911 still had potential in the company's line-up.

The first Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of Porsche AG was Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, who had been working in the company's engine development.

Sen. Edward Kennedy ( D-MA ), who chaired the committee with jurisdiction over the bill, refused to fight over the language that ( if it had been included ) would have reduced the drug company's profits due to these patent extensions.