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IT Consultants (DHA:ITC) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : BDT0.00 Mil (As of . 20)


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IT Consultants Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data

The historical data trend for IT Consultants's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities can be seen below:

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IT Consultants Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.


IT Consultants  (DHA:ITC) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.


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IT Consultants (DHA:ITC) Business Description

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Evergreen Plaza, 260/B, Tejgaon I/A, 3rd Floor, Dhaka, BGD, 1208
Information Technology Consultants Ltd is engaged in electronic payment and transaction processing system. The business of the Company includes online Switching Solution, Software Development and Service Provider of Q-Cash member banks shared ATM network. The company is committed to being the leader as Smart Card Solutions Provider in the Banking sector as well as the Automated Transaction Processing Industry in Bangladesh.

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