Sentences with phrase «book is an asset to»

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In addition to CB «s Investor 500 stock rankings, investment strategies and stock picks, the book contains insight from top Canadian fund managers, such as BlackRock, TD Asset Management, Fidelity Investments and RBC.

It's expected to be a noisy quarter for bank earnings in general, thanks in part to the tax law, which has caused many banks to book losses on repatriated cash and deferred tax assets that declined in value.

Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets.

Start building a powerful and visible personal brand even before you begin writing your book, because it is going to be the most valuable asset you have to evaluate your audience, find your voice, sell your book, get reviews and get noticed by the press.

Starting in December 2001, the accounting changed so that goodwill stays on the books for the original amount unless the fair value of the acquired assets is judged to be «impaired.»

According to the International Business Brokers Association, a company's value is determined by a compilation of factors such as sales, earnings, performance, market outlook, personnel, net book value, and the fair market replacement value of equivalent operating assets.

In contrast, when a deal is structured around stock, the assets on the books must be amortized at their value to the seller, which is likely to be far less than the total sale price.

BHP said its plan to sell its onshore U.S. shale assets, which it has in its books at $ 14 billion, was progressing to plan with initial bids expected in the June quarter.

Indeed, the book values of the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials have declined over the past year, as assets continue to be written down.

Accounting book value is meant to measure the potential assets available to investors in the event of liquidation, and that's simply not a very useful measurement for most equity investors.

Also associated with these actions, the company anticipates one - time charges of approximately $ 160 million, or approximately 33 cents per share, (of which approximately $ 115 million is expected to be cash) to be booked in the fourth quarter of 2017 for restructuring activities, asset impairment, store closings and other costs.

Chris Burniske has a new book coming out that frames Bitcoin as both a currency and an asset class, and he's attempting to use monetarist math and the velocity of use as the building blocks.

Price - to - book (P / B) ratio is another popular tool for measuring the price of a stock or index against its per - share book value (total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities).

For instance, a P / B ratio tends to be more useful for companies with a lot of hard assets on their books, such as factories or equipment.

«We study companies and try to find undervalued securities... We're absolute value investors focusing on asset values, book value discounts and low price to earnings ratios to normalized earnings.

Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such as Eletrobras, would be forced to receive indemnity payments as much as 50 % less than the book value of their assets.

The first is that the current book value of the assets on the balance sheet understates their current value and the second is the potential for the company to expand its current operations and to roll - up wineries to boost case sales, leverage costs and produce free cash flow.

This focus on an asset's earnings power and, in particular, the ability of assets to earn returns in excess of desired returns is the essence of my intrinsic valuation, which is based on Steven Penman's residual income model.1 The basic idea is that if a company is not earning a return in excess of our desired return, that company, like the bank account example above, deserves no premium to book value.

With this method, assets are measured at their gross book value rather than at net book value in order to produce a higher return on equity (ROE).

In fact, the company's assumed return on plan assets is so high that it allowed EK to book income from its pension plan equal to 2.2 % of its revenue last year.

Although it is written in the same no - nonsense, down - to - Earth style, The Intelligent Asset Allocator dives much deeper into the investing strategy that Bernstein presents in the book at the top of our list.

This means it is willing to admit that some of its fossil fuel assets — possibly including the spanking $ 13 billion Kearl tar sands project in Northern Alberta — could be wiped off its books if governments start taking action on climate change.»

Most value stocks have low price - to - earnings (P / E) ratios, high dividend yields, low price - to - cash - flow ratios, and stocks with a market value (generally, the stock price) that is lower than the book value (how much the company's net assets are worth).

I recall attending a lecture (shortly after the book was published) in which someone asked Joel G whether the formula unjustly favored service companies over product manufacturers since servicers do nt carry many hard assets and therefore tend to have higher ROIC (all else being equal).

The book could benefit from additional real - world examples illustrating the procedures being described, (perhaps using the same dog grooming brush business referred to a couple of times) to help the reader to understand how to judge the value of particular assets and approaches and to see the tactics in use.

Suffice to say that 1x book value for BAC is about right given the bank's asset and equity returns, and the state of the credit markets.

Once you have digested the theory behind link building and the suggested ways of assessing what type of link assets you have and need, the next step is to make use of the tools and templates provided with the book to help get you started with your campaigns.

The more that a company can get out of its net assets, the higher its price to book ratio should be.

As we've previously seen in Allwork.Space, meeting rooms are an operator's most profitable asset; however much of the potential of meeting rooms goes unrealized as meeting rooms aren't offered to the general public and aren't easy to find and book.

It is a crypto coin trading platform which enables users to buy and sell popular digital assets (crypto coins) in an open order book.

Or when a club is in serious financial mess and need to sell off his prime assets to balance books.

It may be pertinent to mention that the book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.

Cue hurried meetings with the firm's big cheeses at 2 am and a choice between jacking it all in or trying to sell every asset on the books before anyone notices, causing a wider problem for financial markets.

«To help fund the plans, the Government is to sell off # 15billion in public assets by 2020, including the student loan book and # 5billion of property and lanTo help fund the plans, the Government is to sell off # 15billion in public assets by 2020, including the student loan book and # 5billion of property and lanto sell off # 15billion in public assets by 2020, including the student loan book and # 5billion of property and land.

«We have directed our troops to be on red alert as well as ensure that criminals and vandals who sabotage the national assets are brought to book,» he said.

One step would be stress testing, engaging pension funds and companies to examine if they hold carbon - intensive assets on their books, said Martin Skancke, who spoke on the first panel and is chairman of the Advisory Council of Principles for Responsible Investing, a U.N. - supported initiative that has helped formulate a widely followed voluntary protocol of responsible investment criteria.

The book's most important asset is the author's genuine concern with the values that ought to help structure the role and the function of universities in a society where the influence of private markets and their associated materialistic values is ever more pervasive.

I hope that my book will be an asset that will convince the middle of the bell curve of doctors to practice functional, because not only is it going to actually allow them to practice the care that they've always wanted to practice and they thought they were going to practice in medical school, but actually give them a structure to be able to do that.

There's a lot of character model and animation asset reuse from MVC3, which I'm fine with, but some of it doesn't seem to transition over well from the more comic - book art style to this game's more cinematic universe look.

Whether you join him for one of his award - winning Professional Development presentations, subscribe to his blog or pick up one of his books, you'll find Steve is a great asset to your team.

I think that all authors have to look at what their goals are, what their assets are — we have a lot of books, so we have a lot of flexibility in the different things that we want to try.

And then your book will drop into high - priced electronic oblivion because to the publisher, that book is now just a property asset on their accounting ledger.

The cover of your book is its most important marketing asset, so we recommend leaving this to design professionals.

Another way I'm reinvesting to build assets is by creating audio and print versions for every Kindle book.

Swiping through books however, is fine, and text is plenty readable on the LCD screen, but the hitchiness of the Nook apps (which may have been in part due to loading assets on a crowded Barnes and Noble Wi - Fi) and the performance on the whole is a bummer.

With any luck, your book will prove to be the authority - building and income - building asset you set out to write.

According to Dowd, the division of labour in comic book production «is not really necessary except as an asset protection strategy» (2004:18).

Your greatest asset is your creative writing so instead of spending hours marketing, you may be better served to write more books.

For those of you who don't know, the bankruptcy clause in writer's publishing contract is not valid, and when your publisher drops into bankruptcy, your book is an asset of the company and is treated like one and can be sold off to anyone for any purpose and you have no say over anything.

That way, when you do hire a publicist, the publicist has some starting assets: social media, websites, and other tools that are starting to connect with the book's target reader.