When companies say "cash", it is not physical cash, but cash in the bank. It may not even be in a bank, but may be in money-market funds. It is usually stashe

When companies say "cash", it is not physical cash, but cash in the bank. It may not even be in a bank, but may be in money-market funds. It is usually stashed away in highly-liquid money market funds which return slightly more interest than the bank would.