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Cash flow
Increased and decreases in working capital affected by fluctuating income and/or expenses.

Cash flow statement
Alternative name for the statement of cash flow.

Wallflower
Stock that has fallen out of favor with investors. These stocks tends to have a low price-earnings (P/E) ratio.

Statement-of-cash-flows method
A method of cash budgeting that is organized along the lines of the cash flow statement.

Statement of cash flows
A financial statement showing a firm's cash receipts and cash payments during a specified period.

Scheduled cash flows
The mortgage principal and interest payments due to be paid under the terms of the mortgage not including possible prepayments.

Real cash flow
A cash flow is expressed in real terms if the current, or date 0, purchasing power of the cash flow is given.

Production-flow commitment
An agreement by the loan purchaser to allow the monthly loan quota to be delivered in batches.

Price-specie-flow mechanism
Adjustment mechanism under the classical gold standard whereby disturbances in the price level in one country would be wholly or partly offset by a countervailing flow of specie (gold coins) that would act to equalize prices across countries and automatically bring international payments back in balance.

Operating cash flow
Earnings before depreciation minus taxes. It measures the cash generated from operations, not counting capital spending or working capital requirements.

Nominal cash flow
A cash flow expressed in nominal terms if the actual dollars to be received or paid out are given.

Low price-earnings ratio effect
The tendency of portfolios of stocks with a low price-earnings ratio to outperform portfolios consisting of stocks with a high price-earnings ratio.

Low price
This is the day's lowest price of a security that has changed hands between a buyer and a seller.

Low-coupon bond refunding
Refunding of a low coupon bond with a new, higher coupon bond.

Blow-off top
A steep and rapid increase in price followed by a steep and rapid drop. This is an indicator seen in charts and used in technical analysis of stock price and market trends.

Cash flow after interest and taxes
Net income plus depreciation.

Cash flow coverage ratio
The number of times that financial obligations (for interest, principal payments, preferred stock dividends, and rental payments) are covered by earnings before interest, taxes, rental payments, and depreciation.

Cash flow from operations
A firm's net cash inflow resulting directly from its regular operations (disregarding extraordinary items such as the sale of fixed assets or transaction costs associated with issuing securities), calculated as the sum of net income plus non-cash expenses that were deducted in calculating net income.

Cash flow matching
Also called dedicating a portfolio, this is an alternative to multiperiod immunization in which the manager matches the maturity of each element in the liability stream, working backward from the last liability to assure all required cash flows.

Cash flow per common share
Cash flow from operations minus preferred stock dividends, divided by the number of common shares outstanding.

Cash flow time-line
Line depicting the operating activities and cash flows for a firm over a particular period.

Cash-flow break-even point
The point below which the firm will need either to obtain additional financing or to liquidate some of its assets to meet its fixed costs.