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Can anyone here comment on what qualifies as cash?

• rednukleus 14y ago
  Definitions vary (depending on context), but generally it refers to short term (usually 90 day or less), highly liquid investments such as Treasury bills, money market holdings and commercial paper.
• protomyth 14y ago
  Short term investments that can be liquidated quickly. Most of it is not in the US.
• twoodfin 14y ago
  I believe it's just about anything they own that's actually cash or that they could turn into cash on short notice. Cash, T-Bills, marketable securities.
• mynegation 14y ago
  Highly-liquid short term instruments with very high credit rating, such as actively traded stocks, US Treasury bills, banker acceptances, commercial paper.
• wiredfool 14y ago
  It's more on the order of 120-140 billion, not 200. According to their 10k (which I received in paper yesterday): As of 9/29/2012, they had 121.3B in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Of that, 10.7B in cash, 18.3B in short term marketable securities, and and 92B in Long term marketable securities. Cash + equivalents are highly liquid investments with maturities of 3 months or less at the date of purchase. Short term securities have a maturity of < 12 months, and long term are > 12 months. It's also broken down by holding (in $B): Money Market : 1.4 (cash) Mutual Funds : 2.4 (st) US Treasury : 20.1 (mixed, mostly lt) US Agency : 19.5 (mostly lt) Non US Gov : 5.6 (mostly lt) CDs : 2.2 (cash + lt) Commercial Paper: 2.1 (cash + st) Corporate : 46.8 (st + mostly lt) Munis : 5.6 (mostly lt) MortgageBacked : 12 (lt) (edit for formatting)