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The asset management corporations--known as AMCs--were set up in the late 1990s to help clean up the major banks' balance sheets.

"Corporate balance sheets are in the best shape as they've ever been, " she said at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit in New York.

Attach Balance Sheets of the past years. If the company has less than years of operations, attach information for parent Company.

Equipped with stronger balance sheets, the banks were now ready to embark on the next cycle of dealmaking.

The release of a long-awaited U. S. government plan to rid bank balance sheets of money-losing "toxic" assets has also been a big spur.

"Financial solutions must be found to go beyond the limitations of the utilities' balance sheets, " he said.

Defending those who constructed the weird credit instruments that are piled up on balance sheets is a tough job but I shall take it on.

Particularly at a time when their balance sheets are under great stress, it is going to be very difficult for them.

Christmas, when markets are closed and banks are tidying their year-end balance sheets, is always a time of sparse liquidity.

However, there might be a problem if inflation is high or if deposits continue to leave the banks' balance sheets.

In August, the CBRC told banks that loans moved off their balance sheets up to that point must be returned by the end of next year.

Bankers said the growing amount of cash on balance sheets was likely to put companies under pressure to utilise it.

Attach Balance Sheets for the past 3 years. If the Company has less than 3 years of operations, attach information for parent company.

One benefit of TARP was that it bought time for banks to repair their balance sheets by issuing large amounts of new stock.

But it does promote price discovery and remove the assets from the bank's balance sheets -- necessary conditions to move forward.

There was a time when novice bankers were taught that illiquid or highly volatile assets should play little part on bank balance sheets.

Business reporters need to be able to read and understand financial statements, balance sheets, and annual reports.

The Fed and its peers had clean balance sheets, with basically nothing but Treasury bills on the asset side.

The balance-sheets of emerging-market and rich-world banks are like the coasts of America and Africa: they look like a good fit.

Banks had not shed risk altogether; [font=Arial]it was hidden off their balance-sheets.

He has no time for the theoretical economists' penchant for "efficient" balance sheets that lead companies to insolvency in recessions.

Big asset busts are usually followed by years of weakness as the over-borrowed repair their balance-sheets.

In fact, all that excess liquidity Chinese banks have on their balance sheets is really part of the problem.

Many Asian companies are better able to weather hard times, having bolstered their balance sheets since the Asian financial crisis of 1997.

Banks have no ability to lend at the moment because their balance sheets are so gummed up.

And there we return to the question of damaged household balance sheets.

Only after we bring full transparency to the bank balance sheets will we see private capital buying into banks again at scale.

It has also helped banks rebuild their balance sheets. It may even have led to an incremental increase in the supply of credit.

The IMF proposed a scheme for co-ordinated global taxes on banks' balance-sheets and profits to help pay for the cost of bail-outs.

Stable house prices would do wonders in reducing loan delinquencies, shoring up the banks' balance-sheets and restoring the flow of credit.

With inflation at several hundred per cent a year, many banks' balance-sheets were hard to decipher.

The US banking system is still woefully undercapitalised for the size of its balance sheets.

We have been here before, say sceptics, only to see fresh capital fizzle as bad assets ate through balance-sheets.

Banks are not expected to be willing to restructure their balance sheets to take on a large number of long-term, low-yielding loans.

account, bank statements and balance sheets must be kept for at least seven years.

Most recently, we have witnessed the hits to balance sheets of commercial banks, which did not have to mark-to-market right away.

A third is that swaps can be used to hide credit risk from markets, since positions do not have to be accounted for on balance-sheets.

The banks lobbied against such a step, fearing it would expose big holes in their balance sheets.

Banks do not make the list because their balance-sheets are so leveraged that lobbying expenditures are small as a percentage of assets.

Businesses have repaired their balance sheets and are now in a strong financial position to reinvest and grow.

A lessor shall include the assets subject to operating leases in relevant items of its balance sheets in light of the nature of the asset.

Now, chastened by the huge amounts of capital they have had to raise to strengthen their balance-sheets, banks are being more careful.

Analysts estimate that China lenders have raised close to Rmb700bn from capital markets so far this year to shore up their balance sheets.

Concerns remain, too, over the state of German banks' balance sheets, and their ability to support an upturn in business investment.

Just as there's goodwill in balance sheets and just as brand has value, reputation, broadly defined, has enormous value for companies.

A further plank of his plan is to require banks to undergo a "stress test" to make "their balance sheets cleaner and stronger" .

Conversely, a recovering economy means fewer bank failures, so government balance-sheets are less likely to be strained by bail-outs.

Plus, a stronger U. S. economy, with its financial players having clean balance sheets, will become a safe haven for capital.

Why should I give up the fun stuff and just look at balance sheets all day?

Article 20The category of assets in the balance sheets shall at least include the aggregate item of current assets and non-current assets.

In the consolidated balance sheets, the interests of minority shareholders shall be separately presented within the category of equities.

But a bank-bashing budget will not win the markets' favour, especially as cracks begin to emerge in lenders' Greek-laced balance-sheets.

A compromise might be to deal primarily with those securities that are on the balance sheets of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

The two most profitable banks were Chinese, though what might be hiding on their balance-sheets is anyone's guess.

Lawmakers who approved TARP last October originally thought it would be a way to take bad assets off bank balance sheets.

But, beyond that, the US is in for a period of painful restructuring of balance sheets to deleverage decades of overspending by borrowing.

Past domestic crises left Brazilian companies with a legacy of conservative financial management and mostly sound balance sheets.

The latest plan for migrating toxic assets off banks' balance sheets is, at bottom, vendor financing with Washington footing the bill.

These super-spreaders of the financial world have huge balance sheets and often comprise thousands of distinct legal entities.

State-owned enterprises (SOEs), keen to trim their balance sheets, would be prime candidates to set up property trusts.

These 'risk free' assets gain a higher capital weighting on banks' balance sheets, plus allow absorption of a greater amount of debt.

That old debt is still fouling consumer and bank balance sheets, and the TALF won't do much to erase it.

Patriarchs add value in two ways that do not appear on balance-sheets, says Mr Fan.

The expansion of household sector balance sheets over recent years has led to an increase in the riskiness of banks' mortgage portfolios.

In particular, the plan did not establish how to value the bad assets that are cluttering up bank balance sheets.

Although the US remains the biggest buyback market, corporate balance sheets there have been weakened significantly by the credit squeeze .

But their balance sheets have been tidied up and their local government owners hope western expertise will help to drive profitability.

And the banks would be able to free up their balance-sheets to lend to new projects.

But most crucially for the bank's future, the MICs have started doing a better job at nursing their own balance sheets.

All over the world, household, corporate (and now government) balance sheets are over-leveraged.

Banks must bring loans channeled through these products on to their balance sheets by the end of this month, the CBRC said.

Now, however, new concerns are emerging over the state of Chinese banks and their balance sheets.

Since the financial crisis, many companies have cleaned up their balance sheets and stockpiled cash reserves.

Irish banks may be free of the toxic securities that have poisoned rivals' balance sheets, but they are blighted by souring property loans.

As balance sheets grew, you could borrow more against them, buy more assets and admire your good sense as their value rose.

This was fine while house prices were rising, but the fall exposed how vulnerable banks' balance sheets had become.

And during the "Great Moderation" recessions were short, limiting the damage done to banks' balance-sheets by bad debts.

Despite massive injections of taxpayers' cash to restore lenders' balance-sheets, it will be a while before the credit crunch ends.

The practice forces banks to take a loss on their balance sheets on assets that are caught by the liquidity-solvency spiral.

Car sales have declined across the developed world as households rebuild their heavily stretched balance sheets.

Economists are fretting that Asia will suffer as European banks try to shrink their balance sheets while supporting clients at home.

That reflects investor concerns about the general transfer of risk onto public balance sheets.

All the evidence from financial crises past makes clear that sustainable recovery is contingent on a purge of contaminated balance sheets.

Restructuring expertise and the ability to wring cash out of challenging balance sheets will come in handy indeed.

The trick is to find the real interest rate at which those with perfectly healthy balance sheets decide to put their savings to use.

High quality, investment-grade bonds from companies with solid balance sheets and steady growth prospects have been harder to come by.

Beware, they warned, jumbo stimulus packages and ballooning central bank balance sheets will destroy the value of your hard-earned cash.

Although the rules are still being crafted, some clubs are beginning to pay closer attention to their balance sheets.

Banks' reluctance to lend as they strive to repair their overstretched balance-sheets is impairing the effectiveness of monetary policy.

"There has been a huge transfer on to government balance sheets because of the crisis, " he says.

The foreign banks that dominate Mexico's financial system stopped lending , as they shored up their balance-sheets at home .

Cross-border assets as a share of bank balance sheets have been shrinking, as have global syndicated loan volumes.

Sure, the impact on investment is mitigated by the fact companies have other sources of funding, including strong balance sheets.

One reason for the recent rally in bank stocks was a shift in focus from balance sheets towards the sector's renewed earnings power.

Those American banks whose regulator imposed a leverage ratio had an incentive to move assets off their balance-sheets.

The world economy has entered a major de-leveraging phase, both in terms of financial markets and household balance sheets.

But everything changed during the crisis. Suddenly, balance sheets contracted, volatility hit the roof and fear swept across trading floors.

It would also leverage their balance sheets to a greater degree than either hedge fund activist seeks.

The government had to step in and shore up the balance sheets of our major banks.

Most corporations list real estate holdings in the property, plant, and equipment part of the asset section of corporate balance sheets.

First, I think you can buy shares of the natural-gas producers with the best balance sheets right now.

While he lacks a strong background in mathematics, colleagues say he has an instinctive grasp of balance sheets.

SO CONTROVERSIAL has accounting become that even John McCain, a man not known for his interest in balance sheets, has an opinion.

Compiling, updating and reviewing statistical data in commodities balance sheets, macroeconomic monitoring.

Households with damaged balance sheets may not respond vigorously even to a dramatic easing in the supply and price of credit.

Balance sheets and statements of assets losses and gains for the last three consecutive years.

The slow and painful deleveraging of balance sheets and income-challenged households, financial institutions and governments will continue.

In both areas we like the quality stocks, the good balance sheets, steady revenue stocks.

Prudent investing practices dictate that we seek out quality companies with strong balance sheets , solid earnings and positive cash flows .

To be more precise, I learned a great deal about their balance sheets.

That would have caused a correspondingly steeper fall in incomes, making it harder for households to repair their balance-sheets.

Corporate profitability continues to be strong and balance sheets look healthy.

Summary central bank balance sheets should be publicly disclosed on a frequent and preannounced schedule.

This means that new assets are being created on the balance sheets of Huijin and the banks without new cash entering the system.

He added, ' Higher prices are a catalyst for mergers to create greater scale and capital raising to strengthen balance sheets. '

With banks around the world pressured to shrink their balance sheets, companies and governments need to tap other markets to raise funds.

Their importance in supporting bank balance sheets during the crisis is shown in the $137bn of deals in the past year.

Jettisoning non-core UK businesses looks like the obvious way to shrink the balance sheets of both AIB and BoI.

The ratio of liquid assets to debt in their balance sheets has risen and stayed at a relatively high level for some time now.

Will governments destroy their solvency, as they use their balance sheets to rescue over-indebted private sectors?

But strong balance-sheets gave commercial banks the chance to muscle investment banks out of the underwriting of securities.

Some bad loans were guaranteed by the Ministry of Finance and remained on the banks' balance sheets as "restructuring receivables" .

If banks with combined balance sheets ten times those of Lehman had collapsed, we would now be in another great depression.

The build-up of liquidity just reflects the fact that banks are hoarding funds to improve their balance sheets.

Listings are being seen as an increasingly important source of cash to bolster insurers' balance sheets and propel their expansion.

The recent market rally should bolster household balance sheets, the flow of funds data might show.

Many banks have damaged client relationships more directly, by skimping on credit as they slim their balance-sheets.

Liquidity also remains questionable as banks seek stronger balance sheets and raise capital to pay back government support.

But the economic contraction, and the wretched state of balance sheets, should be forcing a rethink.

Thus, the desire of financial institutions to shrink balance sheets may be an even bigger cause of recession in the US.

Meanwhile, the financial sector will see its equity holdings shrink and its balance sheets worsen once again.

Companies and individuals, rather than adding debt to leverage corporate and family balance sheets, are deleveraging by cutting debt.

The transition from the former model to the latter created UK banks whose balance sheets are many times larger than their loans or deposits.

But that has done little to slow a sea-change in the balance sheets of some of the technology industry's leading lights.

In addition, as the prices of the assets have risen, improving banks' balance sheets, the banks face less pressure to sell at a loss.

It is not alone: around the world, central-bank balance-sheets have ballooned (see chart).

Buy-side equity research, as with the sell-side, focused on profits at the expense of rigorously analysing company balance sheets.

Meanwhile, suppliers demand instant payment from companies with weak balance-sheets and equity investors downgrade the shares.

Meanwhile, record-low interest rates have allowed banks to rebuild balance sheets severely damaged by the credit crisis.

As shareholders in Visa, they will probably use money from a sale to help repair their balance sheets.

Balance-sheets appear to have been stabilised if not repaired.

Investors say that these twin pressures mean banks now have more incentive to get bad debts off their balance sheets.

Another part of the plan is a Legacy Loans Program that hopes to cleanse bank balance sheets of distressed loans.

This era of more sober balance sheets should mean plenty of development capital opportunities for private equity.

A better alternative is to give regulators draconian power but over a smaller part of banks' balance-sheets, so that the panic is contained.

Mr. Ely was particularly skeptical about letting companies bolster their balance sheets by converting preferred shares to common.

It needs an extended period of under-performance to repair its financial institutions, household balance sheets and its trade imbalance.

Sure, slower global demand will crimp Chinese earnings, and US subprime exposure is (slightly) denting Chinese banks' balance sheets.

Some economists though say the better balance sheets may not translate into more consumer spending.

Do they deserve such lavish compensation after savaging their balance sheets and precipitating a worldwide financial crisis?

But the banks are also grappling with a backlog of unsold leveraged loans, which is placing additional pressure on their balance sheets .

Thanks to QE, central banks now have two policy levers: short-term policy rates, as before, and the size of their balance-sheets.

First, loss-socialisation lowers the funding costs of mega-banks, thereby selectively subsidising their balance sheets.

But he ventured that "balance-sheets and deleveraging issues" may be stronger head winds than expected.

Massive fiscal and monetary stimulus is cushioning the damage to households' and banks' balance-sheets, but the underlying problems remain.

Think of the mortgage-backed securities that are still weighing down bank balance sheets.

There are huge piles of toxic debt on these balance sheets but much of it isn't being recognised.

But they worry that banks are also denying loans to worthy customers, choosing instead to use public funds to shore up their balance sheets.

Picking the pockets of investors and savers is a historically validated manoeuvre to rebalance sovereign balance sheets.

Every quarter end, banks file a one-day public snapshot of their balance sheets with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But the bigger problem is the giant shadow cast by the pension and OPEB liabilities that are absent from balance sheets.

The sales were cheered by the investors as a sign the banks were cleaning up their balance sheets.

This capital shortfall has already prompted asset sales by banks, which would rather shrink their balance-sheets than tap shareholders.

In anticipation, many banks scramble to dress up their balance sheets, shedding unloved assets and declining credit to risky borrowers.

Domestic lenders are concentrating on repairing their balance sheets; foreign ones are being pressured to focus on their home countries.

Banks, as many commentators have noted, kept a surprising share of subprime securities on their balance-sheets rather than selling them on.

Most have spent the last twenty years repairing their balance sheets and building up cash.

Even healthy companies responded by trimming balance sheets to repay debt and boosting cash reserves to cover immediate funding needs.

Encouraging an orderly deleveraging of balance sheets, both household and financial, is one route.

Some continental European banks have been more sluggish in cleansing their balance-sheets.

Still, someone will eventually have to pay to restore the banks' balance sheets to health.

Balance sheets would become unbalanced and widespread default, insolvency and bankruptcy would result.

In fact, since the dotcom and telecoms busts earlier this decade, many have put their balance-sheets in order.

Quality developers with strong balance sheets look as important for prospective buyers as for investors in the current environment.

So between diversification and buying companies with strong balance sheets, we try to manage risk.

The financial crisis already has shaken the confidence of debt investors in everything from ratings to asset values on bank balance sheets.

Activity Ratio Accounting ratios that measure a firm's ability to convert different accounts within their balance sheets into cash or sales.

French companies are already seeing a lending freeze as French banks become more conservative amid fears about their balance-sheets.

Moreover, the action carmakers have taken to strengthen their balance sheets is working: most are expecting to generate cash this year.

But he ventured that "balance-sheets and deleveraging issues" may be stronger than expected.

At present, substantial portions of management compensation are not reported in the income statements or balance sheets for many companies.

In such an environment, banks tighten lending standards and shrink their balance sheets.

"Thecredit markets' reaction is sending a strong message that the banksdon't trust each other's balance sheets, " Mr. Stiglitz said.

But with bank balance sheets stretched by the credit crunch, that's not likely to happen quickly.

They all have strong balance sheets and demonstrate the ability to grow sales, earnings from continuing operations, and free cash flow.

Balance sheets are typically prepared at the end of an accounting period i. e. , monthquartermonth-end, quarter-end, and yearyear-end.

Lagarde and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet both said strengthening bank balance sheets is crucial.

The result is that the balance-sheets of different banks are not always directly comparable.

Hedge funds could short financial stocks and then bid down the prices of CDOs stuck on Wall Street's balance sheets.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

A large take-up, the central bank hopes, would avoid banks having to shrink their balance sheets.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of such loans are now stuck on the balance sheets of financial institutions.

If the European sovereign debt crisis leads to defaults then these banks would suffer huge holes in their balance sheets.

"In many cases, their balance sheets are still wounded, or their credit profile has changed as standards have tightened. "

For consumers and governments to rebuild balance sheets and start spending again is a much lengthier, and painful, process.

And many are leaving the cash haul on their balance sheets, bracing for the possibility of fresh crises or leaner growth ahead.

That risk appears to be pretty low for now, given the strength of bank balance sheets.

On the positive side, UK companies are generally in good health, supported by strong balance sheets and largely stable earnings.

Earnings have support from decade-low gross margins and strong balance sheets, but face headwinds from fragile global growth.

Analysts expect profits to continue to slump next year, even as balance sheets balloon with government- directed lending.

Central banks slashed interest rates; the big ones dramatically expanded their balance-sheets.

While they have shored up their balance sheets since the 2008 crisis, this process has just in-filled their previous losses.

And stronger balance sheets, both at government and corporate level, give policy makers greater flexibility.

As banks shrink their balance-sheets the squeeze on business intensifies, which in turn hurts the banks through higher loan losses.

Providing support for stocks is the solid state of corporate balance sheets.

In Europe, concerns over what lies on the balance-sheets of Deutsche and Barclays are ebbing but are not gone.

A little gussying-up of bank balance sheets. Maybe, just maybe, some feeble protection against rapacious credit card lenders.

Across much of Europe, bad debts held by banks are impairing the balance-sheets of their governments.

Still, investors expect REITs to continue trimming their leverage levels and bolstering balance sheets.

Third, these unwanted assets are putting additional strain on banks' balance sheets, which forces them to restrict their lending.

Recoveries after financial crises are normally weak and slow as banking systems are repaired and balance-sheets rebuilt.

By broadening the range of acceptable collateral, the central banks are taking more risks onto their balance sheets.

The sprees had the effect of driving down nonperforming-loan ratios by increasing the size of balance sheets.

Taking troubled assets off bank balance sheets is the next step in the process.

Consumer spending may continue to grow relatively slowly in the near term as households focus on repairing their balance sheets.

Supports the scenario of reporting income statements and balance sheets that include all subsidiaries.

My banking experts have analyzed each of your balance sheets.

He likes both energy and information-technology shares, which have strong balance sheets and impressive growth.

Chinese lenders are raising tens of billions of dollars in fresh capital to bolster balance sheets strained by rapid loan growth.

Corporate balance sheets remain healthy, and we continue to expect solid economic growth across the region.

This time, the region's balance sheets are in better shape and the crisis began elsewhere.

The deals that attract financing will involve strong balance sheets or special opportunities, bankers say.

It calls for a levy of 0. 15 of a percentage point on the balance sheets of companies with assets exceeding $50 billion.

US households, meanwhile, will continue to adjust their balance sheets, which will take some time.

But he was interested in pure research, not in marketing and balance sheets.

The balance sheets of the financial sector exploded, as did the sector's notional profitability.

This should diminish the urgency for banks to shrink balance sheets and should engender a less risk-adverse attitude to lending.

For the past two months, China's leaders have been taking steps to rein in the banks' lending and the risk mounting on their balance sheets.

That with the Treasury's bailout program in place, bad assets will be speedily removed from balance sheets, and credit will again flow.

Several of them are locked in negotiations with lenders to restructure their overleveraged balance sheets.

Both the income statements and balance sheets of insurers can be minefields.

Financialinstitutions, desperate to repair the damage inflicted on their balance-sheets by mortgage-related securities, sell assets.

Some Indian companies are already visibly weighing heavily on their state-owned creditors' balance sheets.

The shrinking of banks' balance-sheets that follows a financial bust makes credit more costly and harder to come by.

Some people worry that by expanding their balance-sheets central banks have been playing with inflationary fire (see chart 3).

That's not to mention the risk of further home-price declines, which could crimp balance sheets.

One result of this approach, however, is that when banks remove assets from their balance sheets, it eats into capital.

Banks still have much work to do to repair their ravaged balance-sheets, which will limit their ability to lend.

They cannot replace the needed repairing and strengthening of banks' balance sheets and public finances.

In many developed countries, fiscal policy is being tightened to repair strained balance sheets.

As far as I can tell, it has gone mostly into propping up corporate balance sheets.

Modern banking is peppered with tales of rogue traders blowing holes in their employers' balance sheets.

So too will be the accuracy of the valuations such stakes command on investment firms' balance-sheets.

You can get balance sheets, income statements, ratios, Seizing Opportunity growth patterns - just about anything.

As long as banks restrict lending while they strive to mend overstretched balance-sheets the economy will continue to wilt.

Above all, Citi's collapse showed the dangers of leaving huge quantities of toxic assets to fester on banks' balance-sheets.

Yet as Mr Prasad points out, the risk in emerging market balance sheets has shifted to the asset side.

In the aftermath of Japan's bubble, firms spent more than a decade paying down debt and rebuilding their balance-sheets.

With more than $200bn of loans committed or stuck on banks' balance sheets, the hit to profits could be substantial.

Alternatively, the plan could give the taxpayers an equity stake in the banks in return for cleaning their balance sheets.