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Record 1 2002-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
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Record 2 1998-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

[The problem of unpaid contributions] does,..., adversely affect the cash flow situation and, were it not for obvious overbudgeting, the accumulation of arrears would have a detrimental effect on the level of the Working Capital Fund.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
OBS

«Montants excédentaires» s'emploie par rapport aux ressources approuvées dans le Budget des dépenses principal (Impôt).

OBS

Le Conseil du Trésor du Canada a annoncé, le 5 février 1998, que l'équivalent français de Main Estimates devient «Budget principal des dépenses», et celui de Supplementary Estimates, «Budget supplémentaire des dépenses».

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
DEF

The sale by a business of its book debts to a factoring company, who will pay the business the face value of the total of the invoices, less a discount which will take into consideration: the fee, interest rates appertaining at the time, risk of non-payment, etc. The seller of the invoices will do so in order to improve his cash flow. The factoring company, will not necessarily offer any other service, such as guarantee of bad debts, sales ledger accounting, etc. [Klein, Gerald. Dictionary of Banking. Pitman Publishing, 1995].

CONT

Invoice discounting is a working capital facility which provides immediate finance(prepayment) of up to 80% of funds tied up in unpaid debtor invoices, the balance is paid(less costs) as the debtor collections are received. In short invoice discounting is an acceleration of cash flow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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