Even as key corporate financial indicators continue to fall, some hope may be emerging that forecasts of an impending recession will prove inaccurate.
As the use of free cash flow as a guiding metric grows, researchers seek a solid definition for the term.
If the U.S. Tax Cuts and Job Act doesn’t push companies to invest more in capex, a “stagflation scenario” could ensue.
“Firms are only capable of sustainably maintaining their dividend payouts provided they are generating sufficient free cash flow,” researchers contend.
The new tax cuts will make winners out of companies with big deferred tax liabilities and losers of those with large tax assets, an expert forecasts.
Despite surging sales and cash flow, company spending on capex continues to lag.
Freewheeling reporting rules on other comprehensive income set the stage for earnings management, researchers assert.
But big, public, non-financial companies are generating cash partly by cutting capex, study finds.
The order in which a company presents financial statements may present clues about how it wants to be viewed by investors and analysts.
A huge dollar amount has vanished from corporate America’s investment in capex.
U.S. companies are throwing off cash but still investing tepidly in capital expenditures and inventory.
