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by owenbrown 1193 days ago
I've always found it odd that cash-rich companies keep bank accounts, when they could purchase short-duration t-bills.

There's now at least one business bank the will purchase t-bills on a companies behalf with minimal transaction costs.

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You need some of that for working capital, and if you want to play the t-bill game, you're better off with a money market fund and letting someone else do the work for you.
If your Roku, How do you pay

salaries

interest on debt

Bills

Lobbyists

Foreign companies that manufacture your hardware

Hedge currency from foreign sales and bills

All without a bank account?

Keep in mind they say this is 25% of their cash, clearly they invested the bulk of their short terms assets elsewhere .

Aka operating cash