by Tim Delaney | Nov 22, 2013
We blogged about Tesla just over a year ago, looking at what we called the company’s “liquidity burn.” We thought they only had about a year’s worth of liquidity left. Since then, burning through liquidity hasn’t been Tesla’s biggest problem. Instead, Tesla’s...
by Tim Delaney | Nov 9, 2012
Tesla Motors has drawn a lot of attention for its sleek, high-performing electric cars. Its Roadster has been an enviro-celebrity favorite for several years, and its new Model S sedan is getting great reviews. The company has been trying to scale up to large-scale...
by Tim Delaney | Mar 10, 2012
Kodak’s cash burn was a big concern among analysts in the last months before the firm’s bankruptcy in January of this year. Cash burn is a term that gets thrown around a lot when companies are in trouble, but it’s hard to find a definition for it in books on...
by Ron Carleton | Nov 18, 2009
There are lots of measures of liquidity. The classics are the current ratio and the quick ratio, but they’ve fallen out of favor because they don’t include cash flow, a critical component of liquidity. Cash burn is too recent to be classic, even though...
by Ron Carleton | Mar 19, 2009
There’s a new book about the collapse of Bear Stearns. It’s House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan, and it is getting good reviews. The New York Times calls it “…high drama that is gripping…” The story may...
