Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Cash And Cash Equivalents : CHF42.6 Mil (As of Jun. 2014)

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What is Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash And Cash Equivalents?

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's quarterly cash and cash equivalents increased from Jun. 2013 (CHF33.36 Mil) to Dec. 2013 (CHF40.23 Mil) and increased from Dec. 2013 (CHF40.23 Mil) to Jun. 2014 (CHF42.55 Mil).

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's annual cash and cash equivalents declined from Dec. 2011 (CHF39.50 Mil) to Dec. 2012 (CHF31.19 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2012 (CHF31.19 Mil) to Dec. 2013 (CHF40.23 Mil).

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash And Cash Equivalents Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Cash And Cash Equivalents can be seen below:

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash And Cash Equivalents Chart

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Annual Data

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67.37

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Semi-Annual Data
	Dec09	Jun10	Dec10	Jun11	Dec11	Jun12	Dec12	Jun13	Dec13	Jun14
Cash And Cash Equivalents	Get a 7-Day Free Trial					28.48	31.19	33.36	40.23	42.55

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding 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.

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding SA was incorporated on July 26, 2004 in the Canton of Geneva. The Company is engaged in the development and sale of equipment, services and software for the digital television and broadband data communication industry, and relies on third party contract manufacturers for the production of equipment. In 2005, the Company made an initial public offering. It develops and delivers diverse products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms such as cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Its customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes. The Company is in system integration, incorporating the industry's middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short time as possible.

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