Defense Financial and Investment Review. Appendix 3. Financial Community Perceptions of the Defense Industry: 1985,

Abstract

The Conference Board made a study of leaders in the nation's financial community concerning their perceptions of the defense contractors with whom they do business to support the Defense Financial and Investment Review study. The report contains a summary of comments from financial executives of commercial banks, life insurance companies, accounting firms, investment rating agencies, investment banking firms, and venture capital firms relating to the suitability and desirability of providing financing to defense oriented firms. Commercial bankers and large life insurance companies particularly welcome the business of defense contractors. The prevailing opinion is that the collection experience in this sector of industry is good and the loans are profitable for lenders. In particular, the industry is in good shape because of the present and prospective defense build-up and also because of changes that have been made in DoD profit and financing policy and in economy-wide tax policy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA158246

Entities

People

  • F. J. Walsh Jr
  • P. J. Davey

Organizations

  • LMI

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Business Administration
  • Capital Investments
  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economics
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Logistics Management
  • Money
  • Motivation
  • Procurement
  • Strategic Defense Initiative

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Economics
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.