It is probably in recognition of these interdependencies that the role of finance professionals in the management of their companies has substantially widened in recent years.

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These finance companies earned millions of dollars through unusually high fees, high-interest loans and the float (the working capital they handled for their clients).

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These control thousands of companies, ostensibly to finance education and health care for military families.

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The enterprise multiples of these two companies is not easy to calculate because they have finance arms that complicate their numbers.

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This has opened a window of opportunity for the Chinese government to finance, and for Chinese technology companies to develop, then manufacture these new green products.

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These are companies that created a lot of jobs, a lot of intellectual capital, and Wall Street helped finance that.

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