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World’s Best Banks 2024—Asia-Pacific

Global Finance

Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits. In Japan, profits at the country’s five most prominent banking groups leapt 56% to a record ¥2 trillion (about $12.6 billion after-tax profit versus $8.3 billion; a 2.3% billion in 2022.

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A Primer on Free Cash Flow

CFO News Room

As you can see in my earlier computation of FCFE for Microsoft, every item that you need for the calculation is in the FCFE, with your key decisions becoming which items not to count (any cash flows to equity, investments in securities etc.) and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

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Earnings and Cash Flows: A Primer on Free Cash Flow

Musings on Markets

As you can see in my earlier computation of FCFE for Microsoft, every item that you need for the calculation is in the FCFE, with your key decisions becoming which items not to count (any cash flows to equity, investments in securities etc.) and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.)