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In four or more paragraphs, distinguish between a cash hog and a cash cow business.

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Contrasts occur between a cash hog and a cash cow business,

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A cash hog business is one whose internal cash flows are inadequate to fully fund its needs for working capital and new capital investment. Therefore, the parent company has to continually pump in capital to ...

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