Net cash: the meaning
Money in the bank and in hand minus financial debt due within the year.
Suppliers and taxes do not count here, only loans.
How to read it
Positive: the company can repay its short-term loans at once. Negative: it leans on the bank.
On Nummo you find this figure in the Figures tab of every company that filed annual accounts, over the years. In the tables, a small card gives this explanation in short.
How to calculate it
cash − short-term financial debt (in belgian annual accounts: 50/58 − 42 − 43)
The item numbers follow the official format of Belgian annual accounts, which builds on the European Accounting Directive.
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