FPCG (First Physicians Capital Group) Cash And Cash Equivalents : $1.89 Mil (As of Jun. 2014)

First Physicians Capital Group Cash And Cash Equivalents Chart

First Physicians Capital Group Annual Data
	Trend	Jan04	Jan05	Jan06	Jan07	Sep08	Sep09	Sep10	Sep11	Sep12	Sep13
Cash And Cash Equivalents		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.32	0.54	1.00	1.39	0.98

First Physicians Capital Group Quarterly Data
	Sep09	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14
Cash And Cash Equivalents	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.19	0.98	0.28	4.11	1.89

First Physicians Capital Group Cash And Cash Equivalents 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.

First Physicians Capital Group  (OTCPK:FPCG) Cash And Cash Equivalents Explanation

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.

Be Aware

Depreciation estimates make the calculation of net income susceptible to management's accounting choices. These choices can be either overly aggressive or overly conservative.

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