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Cash Flow (LTS:0LSC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.56 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2014)


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What is Cash Flow Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Cash Flow's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2014 was £0.08 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2014 was £0.56 Mil.


Cash Flow Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Cash Flow Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Cash Flow Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.58 0.72 0.71 0.85 0.63

Cash Flow Quarterly Data
Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.15 0.22 0.15 0.11 0.08

Competitive Comparison of Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Mortgage Finance subindustry, Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cash Flow's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Cash Flow Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.56 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Cash Flow  (LTS:0LSC) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Cash Flow (LTS:0LSC) Business Description

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Cash Flow S.A. is engaged in the provision of helping other businesses to regain financial stability by vindicating client's debtors, financing liabilities, factoring or other financial services tailed to client's needs.

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