Sentences with phrase «less operating capital»

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Available cash flow is defined as U.S. GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

Although operating in a small city has its disadvantages, most obviously, less access to venture capital than you would find in urban centers like New York City, Boston, or San Francisco, analysts point out that there are still major benefits.

Therefore, while cash generated from operations is our primary source of operating liquidity and we believe that internally generated cash flows are sufficient to support day - to - day business operations, we use a variety of capital sources to fund our needs for less predictable investment decisions such as acquisitions.

Investors should expect operating and capital costs to represent no less than 30 % of the drug's royalty - based sales.

In particular, the company's strong operating cash flow means it ought to have less need for additional debt and equity to fund its capital spending requirements.

This allowed us to get our business started with less capital investment and meant we could start operating sooner.

Preliminary estimates show that the capital costs of forward osmosis can be less than 70 per cent and operating costs less than 60 per cent of those for evaporation, its main competitor technology.

The value of the net revenues — the forecast is for fares of # 14bn less operating costs of # 6bn over a 60 - year project life — will only cover less than half of capital costs.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Without sharing capital and operating costs (which are commercially sensitive), a PRISM plant would likely cost significantly less than alternative plutonium reuse options.

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

(hh) If the unencumbered amount of cumulative surplus revenue from tuition held by a charter school at the end of a fiscal year, less (i) the amount of the fourth quarter tuition payment, (ii) the amount held in reserve for the purchase or renovation of an academic facility pursuant to a capital plan, and (iii) any reserve funds held as security for bank loans, exceeds 20 per cent of its operating budget and its budgeted capital costs for the succeeding fiscal year as is reported in a capital plan to be submitted in the school's most recent annual report, the amount in excess of said 20 per cent shall be returned by the charter school to the sending district or districts and the state in proportion to their share of tuition paid during the fiscal year.

Two, insofar as wealth is created by having access to capital markets, having more reported earnings from operations tends to stand a company in better stead when raising equity capital at attractive prices (or at all) on Wall Street rather than having less operating earnings.

No less an authority than Warren Buffett called Dr. Singleton «the best operating manager and capital deployer in American business.»

This ratio is harder to calculate, since it involves delving into the financial statements to estimate free cash flow (FCF), which is calculated as operating cash flow less capital expenditures («capex»).

I agree that any capital intensive electricity generation technology forced to operate at less than maximum achievable load factor due to policy, market or engineering reasons will be placed at a potential economic disadvantage.

This new nuclear technology, because it operates at higher temperatures, can increase thermal efficiency from the 34 % or so of current nuclear technology to closer to 50 %; it can have more inherent safety features from not being pressurized and have a core that can not melt down; it can use more efficient combined cycle turbine technologies that require less capital for the same amount of power generated.

Residential assets typically require much less capital in order to invest or operate.

By operating with less capital, they can reap very large returns in good times.