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A method of financial analysis based on financial accounting ratios; comparing various accounting items with each other as ratios.
UK process for electronic payments, typically made via the internet or phone, to be processed in hours rather than days.
For example, Days sales outstanding.
 
It allows credit transfers and standing orders to be paid in near real time.  There is a maximum transaction amount.  It is operated by VocaLink 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Instant payments for corporates?'''''</span>
 
:"... in a live proving exercise a [UK] Faster Payment valued in the tens of millions of pounds was sent and received.
 
:In comparison, SCT Inst has started with a EUR 15,000 limit, and the US Real-time Payments System caps transactions at USD 25,000."
 
:''The Treasurer magazine, April 2018, p23 - In Search of the Tipping Point.''


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A broader quantitative analysis also including relevant operational and market measures in the various ratio calculations, as well as accounting items.
For example, Price to earnings ratios.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[BACS]]
* [[Days sales outstanding ]]
* [[C&CCC]]
* [[Financial analysis]]
* [[Clearing House Automated Payment System]]
* [[Price to earnings ratio]]
* [[CPA]]
   
* [[Electronic commerce]]
* [[ERPS]]
* [[Faster Payments Scheme]]
* [[Immediate payments and the impact on corporate treasurers]]
* [[IMPS]]
* [[LVPS]]
* [[NPP]]
* [[Pay.UK]]
* [[Payments and payment systems]]
* [[PSP]]
* [[Real-time Payments]]
* [[Single Euro Payments Area]] (SEPA)
* [[Single Immediate Payment]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/2932 UK Faster Payments Service, ACT Briefing note, 2008]


[[Category:Cash_management]]

Revision as of 14:20, 23 October 2012

1. A method of financial analysis based on financial accounting ratios; comparing various accounting items with each other as ratios. For example, Days sales outstanding.

2. A broader quantitative analysis also including relevant operational and market measures in the various ratio calculations, as well as accounting items. For example, Price to earnings ratios.

See also


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