Current liabilities have fluctuated significantly as well, although the company maintains no short-term debt.
Its current ratio, a measure of liquidity, is low, with current liabilities often bigger than current assets.
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Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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Net cash is a traditional measure of excess cash and is calculated by totaling cash, marketable securities and short-term investments, and subtracting current liabilities.
This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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In other words, given their current liabilities, they simply invested far too little in cash and liquid assets rather than too much in alternatives like private equity.
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And the quick ratio, which measures cash and accounts receivable relative to total current liabilities, has been trending lower over the years, dipping below 1 in the last 12 months.
The current unfunded liabilities are more than five times the personal debt of the average household, including mortgages, loans and credit cards.
The amount would be far less than the system's current unfunded liabilities.
Accordingly, a 3.2% growth rate would make our current debt and unfunded liabilities financially insignificant.
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Beyond the current debt are the unfunded liabilities for entitlement programs that come due in the future.
Mercer Consulting reckons that governments that have not set aside money for future obligations will face liabilities 40-60 times the current annual cost of retirees' health care.
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States show current contributions as expense, not billion dollar liabilities (money owed), and worst yet, most states use ludicrous actuarial assumptions to estimate the returns on pension funds.
It appears increasingly clear that the Congress will need to intervene forcefully if U.S. taxpayer liabilities associated with propping up the current Soviet political and economic systems are to be avoided.
Jonathan Anderson, a China specialist at UBS, calculates that under the current pension system the government could face unfunded liabilities of up to 6% of GDP annually a few decades hence.
This indicates a potential upside to the current valuation which factors in heavy compensation and retirement liabilities.
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This makes it difficult, if not impossible, under the current rules, for any federal agency to consider tax liabilities as part of its own criteria for grants and contracts.
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The money that is deducted out of your check for these unfunded liabilities and future promises are going to pay the current generation of retirees.
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He gave warning that the current system of budget accounting seriously underestimated the government's future liabilities.
In particular, he gave warning that the current system of budget accounting seriously underestimated the government's future liabilities.
Cheaper access to dollars from the Fed (via the ECB) for euro-zone banks will give them greater incentive to roll over existing liabilities rather than merely shrinking their balance sheets at the current breakneck pace.
The liabilities of Social Security, as we know it, for current recipients and those about to receive benefits, can be amortized over 40 years.
Portugal, Greece and (to a lesser extent) Spain still have big current-account deficits, and so are still adding to their already high foreign liabilities.
The measure would repeal their current ability to deduct 6% of their oil and gas production income from their tax liabilities.
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