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French term or phrase:capitaux étrangers financiers
The document is a company sale prospectus, drawn up in Belgium for a Belgian-based service company.
This term occurs in the heading for one row in the table "Financial ratios", as "Cash-flow opérationnel / Capitaux etrangers financiers".
I have authoritative references for "capitaux financiers" and "capitaux étrangers" as "financial capital" and "foreign capital" respectively; but I have not encountered them in combination before and, not being an accountant, I like to double check any new terminology in this field! Can I simply use "foreign financial capital" or does this combined term have a different corresponding EN term?
Explanation: No harm in translating what you see. But you could leave out 'financial'.
In accounting, 'capital' is rarely anything *but* financial capital: after all, what economists call capital is on the asset side of the balance sheet. So I'm surprised.
If the writer meant to refer to footloose financial capital -- portfolio investment as opposed to direct investment -- he could have been more specific.
Explanation: No harm in translating what you see. But you could leave out 'financial'.
In accounting, 'capital' is rarely anything *but* financial capital: after all, what economists call capital is on the asset side of the balance sheet. So I'm surprised.
If the writer meant to refer to footloose financial capital -- portfolio investment as opposed to direct investment -- he could have been more specific.
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