Recent trends in corporate finance : some evidence from the Canadian System of National Accounts / by Allan Tomas. : CS13-604/50

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Corporations have been posting record profits over much of the last decade. Meanwhile, business fixed capital investment has been relatively sluggish in recent years. This situation has led to a significant shift in the corporate sectors' net lending/borrowing position - from one of a chronic deficit position to one of sustained surplus. After having run deficits for almost 30 years, corporations have emerged with significant surplus positions in the last decade. This has placed the corporate sector in a new role - that of increasingly supplying funds to the rest of the economy. This note looks at this development from a few angles, focusing on non-financial corporations. It identifies the underlying causes for, and the major effects of, the development of an expanding corporate surplus position.

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Department/Agency Statistics Canada.
Title Recent trends in corporate finance : some evidence from the Canadian System of National Accounts / by Allan Tomas.
Series title Income and expenditure accounts technical series1707-1720No. 50
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language Bilingual-[English | French]
Format Paper
Other formats Electronic-[English], Electronic-[French]
Publishing information Ottawa - Ontario : Statistics Canada March 2006.
Binding Processed
Description English text, 19p. : glossary, graphs ; 28 cm.
ISBN 0-662-49071-1
ISSN 1707-1720
Catalogue number
  • CS13-604/50
Subject terms Finance
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