Again, 90% of cash earned is paid out in distributions, so if one of these management teams does something that is not cash-accretive, it becomes very apparent very quickly.
Most senior traders of this type were paid a percentage of the profits they made, with deferred compensation usually comprising a mix of cash and stock paid out over three years.
But that's cash that could have been paid out to the shareholders as dividends.
What can be paid out is really the cash that Apple already has onshore in the US: effectively its accumulated US profits.
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But what about all the cash bonuses and stock that had already been paid out for illusory earnings and revenues based on valueless investments?
He handed out cash to buy support, but never paid his soldiers regularly.
"Even in the worst times, we never paid out more than 92% of our cash, " says its chief executive, Mitchell Hersh.
Undeterred, Locker sought out Kenneth Minor who was paid some cash up front and given an ATM card with a PIN for additional payment.
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Valuations were lower overall prior to 1950 because companies paid out a significant amount of their earnings as cash dividends.
The short-sellers borrow the shares, replace them with cash collateral and promise both to return the shares on demand and cover dividends paid out in the meantime.
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By 2013, when Mr Clinton and his fellow boomers start retiring, the cash flowing into the system from payroll taxes will no longer match the benefits being paid out.
Their challenge was figuring out how they would ever improve cash flow enough to justify the huge premium paid for the newspaper.
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Additionally, the nominal amounts of interest being paid by money market accounts cannot be ruled out as contributing to the shift out of cash.
She worked out an arrangement with the owner of the ribbon factory: the rent would be paid in cash, and if Shelly was discovered by the housing authorities the owner would claim that she was a squatter.
If I chose to cash out my stocks, which would have provided only a short-term fix, then I would have paid a significant amount in capital gains on my taxes.
And, sooner or later, when those postponed debts must finally be paid, Russia will find itself in much the same place it has been until now: out of cash, and desperate for someone to lend it money.
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