B- Scada (B- Scada) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : $0.67 Mil (As of Apr. 2017)

B- Scada Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Chart

B- Scada Annual Data
	Trend	Oct07	Oct08	Oct09	Oct10	Oct11	Oct12	Oct13	Oct14	Oct15	Oct16
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.10	0.25	1.15	0.84	0.85

B- Scada Quarterly Data
	Jul12	Oct12	Jan13	Apr13	Jul13	Oct13	Jan14	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.09	1.12	0.85	0.67	0.67

B- Scada Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities 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.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.

B- Scada  (OTCPK:SCDA) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

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.

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