Chapter 6. Cash

Cash is the most coveted of all assets. It can be converted into any other asset, and therefore is viewed as the most desirable. A company can stay in business without making a profit (for example, Amazon.com raised enough capital to last it through many years of not making a profit), but it cannot stay in business without cash (think of all the failed dot-com companies).

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