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Bus/Financial - Accounting | | French term or phrase: CAF | CAF / INVESTISSEMENT
It's a header.
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| | | Caisse d'allocations familiales or 'coût, assurance, frêt' | Explanation:
Sounds like a social insurance contribution to a fund (caisse).
See the first link for a useful site on French acronyms!
The second link gives 'Coût, assurance, frêt' for CAF. This sound feasible as well, especially since it's a heading.
You could go for 'Costs, insurance, freight'.
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 Marcus Malabad
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Local time: 17:23
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5 mins peer agreement (net): +1
19 mins peer agreement (net): +2 Caisse d'allocations familiales
Explanation:
Being French, this would be my first guess as it's really well known in France. The CAF is like Social Security. They provide medical insurance and housing benefits for the poor, offer unemployment benefits for the 25+ (called RMI).
Valerie
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5 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 capacité d'autofinancement
Explanation:
This could be way off, so it's just a possibility. Anyway, here is some context:
Ce concept a été proposé et défini par les autorités comptables françaises lors de la mise en place du plan comptable 1984. La Capacité d'autofinancement (CAF) aurait du remplacer la notion de marge brute d'autofinancement (MBA) qui correspondait au référentiel comptable précédent, Mais nous constatons que le concept de MBA reste utilisé par de nombreux analystes et que MBA et CAF sont souvent utilisées et considérées comme synonymes.
La capacité d'autofinancement, dont la mesure est dérivée des soldes intermédiaires de gestion, permet d'identifier le potentiel de ressources internes dégagé par l'activité de l'entreprise. Destinée à figurer dans le tableau de financement ou le tableau de flux de trésorerie, la CAF est mesurée hors produits de cessions d'actifs qui sont présentés distinctement dans les ressources. Deux approches différentes sont proposées pour mesurer la CAF :
Reference: http://www.journaldunet.com/dossiers/lexiques/finances/cashf...
| lefoque
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Local time: 17:23
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12 hrs Turnover
Explanation:
Just a hunch, but Chiffre d'affaires (= turnover or sales) / Investissement (= investment) seems to be a known ratio in financial dealings, hmm?
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18 hrs peer agreement (net): +2 Cashflow
Explanation:
lefoque was quite right - in this context, CAF is VERY DEFINITELY 'capacité d'autofinancement', and his descriptions were very accurante.
The equivalent English term is simply 'Cashflow', in accounting terminology!
Tableau des termes financiers (français, anglais / américain ...
... Capacité d'autofinancement (CAF), Cash flow, Bar kapital - Kapitalflussrechnung
(cashflow), Flusso di cassa, Cash flow / Flujo de caja.
Reference: http://www.vernimmen.net/lexique/lexique_tableau.html
Reference: http://www.tectrad.com/glossfin-cd.htm
| jgal
Local time: 23:23
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