Sentence examples for Discretionary cash flow from inspiring English sources

Both Safeway and Kroger enjoyed significant discretionary cash flow during this period, while Albertsons owner Supervalu struggled under the significant debt burden resulting from the 2006 merger.

William Featherston, an analyst at PaineWebber, says a group of 15 gas producers he tracks are expected to post a 75percentt gain in discretionary cash flow -- net income plus depreciation and deferred taxes -- to $9 billion this year.

Kraft reported $979 million in discretionary cash flow in the first half of 2004, down from $1.08 billion a year earlier, attributing the difference to lower earnings, pension contributions and an increase in capital spending.

You can bet it will use most of its discretionary cash flow to pay down that debt quickly.

In 2006, Magner is focusing upon energy companies with double-digit production growth, attractive valuation metrics and healthy free cash flow (discretionary cash flow minus capital expenditures).

The sale of Brinker's Romano Macaroni Grill should help discretionary cash flow, Fitch Ratings said in late November, but operating cash flow would remain under "significant pressure" due to declines in sales in stores open at least one year, and higher commodity costs.

They are good businesses with huge discretionary cash flows".

We use four financial reporting property measures: discretionary accruals, the correlation between operating cash flow and accruals, the persistence of earnings, and the predictability of earnings.

"That reduces the cash flow for parents without reducing discretionary spending for kids," he said.

We run this analysis only for the first and second financial reporting properties (absolute discretionary accruals and correlation between accruals and operating cash flow) since provisions are not important in testing the persistence of earnings and the predictability of earnings.

Our analysis is based on the magnitude of absolute discretionary accruals, the correlation between accruals and operating cash flow, the persistence of earnings, and the predictability of earnings as accounting-based financial reporting properties.