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Asia Cork (STU:6A3) Cash And Cash Equivalents : €3.21 Mil (As of Dec. 2010)


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What is Asia Cork Cash And Cash Equivalents?

Asia Cork's quarterly cash and cash equivalents increased from Dec. 2008 (€0.02 Mil) to Dec. 2009 (€0.03 Mil) and increased from Dec. 2009 (€0.03 Mil) to Dec. 2010 (€3.21 Mil).

Asia Cork's annual cash and cash equivalents increased from Dec. 2008 (€0.02 Mil) to Dec. 2009 (€0.03 Mil) and increased from Dec. 2009 (€0.03 Mil) to Dec. 2010 (€3.21 Mil).


Asia Cork Cash And Cash Equivalents Historical Data

The historical data trend for Asia Cork's Cash And Cash Equivalents can be seen below:

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Asia Cork Cash And Cash Equivalents Chart

Asia Cork Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10
Cash And Cash Equivalents
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.43 0.25 0.02 0.03 3.21

Asia Cork Semi-Annual Data
Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10
Cash And Cash Equivalents Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.43 0.25 0.02 0.03 3.21

Asia Cork 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.


Asia Cork  (STU:6A3) 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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Asia Cork Business Description

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Asia Cork Incorporated formerly known as Hankersen International Corp., was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on August 1, 1996. On July 11, 2008, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Asia Cork Inc., was merged into its parent, the Company, in order to change the name of the Company, after approval by the Board of Directors of the Company according to the Delaware General Corporation Law. As permitted by Delaware General Corporation Law, the Company assumed the name of its wholly owned subsidiary following the merger and now operates under the name Asia Cork Inc. The Company through its subsidiaries is engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of cork products including cork wood floor, wall and decorating materials. It produces approximately seven series of cork flooring planks with over approximately 50 different patterns, colors and granules. It produces approximately 16 types of cork wallboard and approximately three types of cork art crafts with different patterns. It products include Cork Granule, Cork Sheet and Roll, Glue-down Floor, Floating Floor, Cork Wallboard and Basic Board. All these products utilize staining technology to create different colors. Its cork art crafts include ornaments and decorations. Wallboard could also be used as decorative material. It also sells semi-finished cork products to other manufacturers which use cork granule and sheet roll as raw materials. Cork granule comes in varies sizes and is the early stage of cork material processing. It sells its products directly to customers in China through its own sales team, and it distributes its products to customers overseas through unrelated distributors and sales agents. The countries in which its products were distributed through these sales agents include India, the United States of America, Germany and Japan. The Company competes with Portugal cork manufacturers as its major product is cork stopper used for wine bottles, which usually accounts for one third of its total sales and even higher percentage of profit. Domestically, the Company competes with local mid-sized cork manufacturers. These companies' products are semi-finished cork boards, sheets and roles.

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