Frequently a sinking fund is invested in securities, such as government bonds, which are placed in the hands of a trustee, thus insuring against the withdrawal of the funds from actual use in the business.
A sinking fundis an asset and may or may not be withdrawn from the business.
A sinking fund is an amount set aside out of profits to meet an anticipated liability, or an obligation which is to fall due at some future date.
Unlike a reserve, a sinking fund has no effect on the apparent profits of the period in which it is created.
Sinking Fund, automatically progressed until that burden would have become equivalent to 5d.
Sinking Fund, and payable, unless Parliament should in the meantime otherwise determine, as long as any debt remained outstanding.
He regretted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had raided the new Sinking Fund, and held that an undue burden of taxation was being thrown on the rich.
A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury contains a proposition for the establishment of a sinking fund.
One of several English ideas adopted by Mr. Hamilton from Mr. Pitt was a sinking fund apparatus.
If the company has been over-capitalized, and no sinking fund or depreciation has been set aside, it is the present owner's misfortune.
I explained that a sinking fund is nothing but an obligation or promise, on the part of the government or an individual, to pay a certain amount annually of the principal of the debt in addition to the interest.
A sinking fund is a fund set aside yearly for the purpose at some future time of sinking--that is, paying a debt.
It is customary when such bonds are issued to set aside a percentage of the earnings as a sinking fund to meet the bonds at maturity.
A windfall is a development loan without guarantee or interest or sinking fund to burden the mind of the Exchequer.
A Sinking Fund to be established to redeem the loan at maturity.
The additional one-half per cent goes into a sinking fund to pay the bonds at maturity.
Three-fourths of 1 per cent of this annual interest, to be paid by the man who owns the farm, goes into a sinking fund to meet the principal of bonds which have been issued to provide the purchase money.
This sum represents two and one-half per cent interest upon bonds issued to raise the funds and three-fourths of one per cent for a sinking fund to meet the bonds at maturity.
Ricardo's moral was that we should honestly give up pretending to have a sinking fund.
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