forward purchase

What it does is bring forward purchases.

One instance is the forward purchase by Japan Airlines of $4 billion over 11 years at much more than the present rate.

Buyers brought forward purchases in August to beat the deadline on stamp duty, creating a vacuum in the following month.

At 31 December 1992 the Group had forward purchase commitments amounting to Deutschmarks 9 million (1991: nil).

Laker Airways needed to pay the high spot market oil prices because it could not hedge its future supplies by negotiating fixed-rate, forward purchases.

In 2009, Luggage Forward purchased several competitive brands including Baggage Quest and Sports Express.

Because even the most inspired forecasts of how prices are going to move can't be right all the time, some forward purchasing is arranged on a 'hedging' basis.

A precarious balance was reached when the log was high at the far end, but was now so steeply angled that no more forward purchase could be gained.

The margining of futures eliminates much of this credit risk by forcing the holders to update daily to the price of an equivalent forward purchased that day.

But of course such operations affect the reserves in the month in which the forward purchase matures, not in the month in which the transaction is executed.

For customer service deliveries, JUDGEnergy uses ByBox - a company that reduces peoples' carbon footprint when delivering products by forwarding purchased products to a network of 400 collection points around the UK, rather than individual homes.

The housing market impacts on consumer spending in two ways: directly, in that a higher number of house-moves brings forward purchasing of consumer durables and DIY products; and in a wider context, because as property values appreciate, homeowners become wealthier and therefore likely to spend more.

HMRC's ERP system has the facility to forward Purchase Orders to one email account and payment remittance notes to a second email address, it is the responsibility of the supplier to ensure that these email accounts are monitored at all times, preferably with the use of group email accounts.