| Publisher | CFO Publishing | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | HTML | Date added | 01 Jul 2000 |
| Topics | Green IT | ||
| Downloads | 4 | ||
This article is related to the working capital and cash management. When it comes to cash balances, lots of companies are keeping low profiles. How much cash is enough cash? As debates in corporate finance go, few are more basic or more persistent. On the one hand, cash supplies a cushion against hard times or a war chest to bankroll growth strategies. Increasingly, finance executives are becoming critics of high cash balances. It highlights several measures of cash- on-hand at a cross-section of 550 public companies. The Scoreboard tracks: 1) cash levels at each company as a percentage of sales; 2) a target cash level based on volatility of cash flows and cash requirements; 3) actual cash levels versus target levels, or cash gaps; and 4) cash gap per share.
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