Unrelated diversification can balance the cash flows of SBU entities. A firm, which has many SBUs that merit investment might buy or merge with a cash cow to provide a source of cash. The acquisition of the cash cow may reduce the need to raise debt or equity over time, although if the cash cow is acquired, resources will need to be expected.
There are currently estimated to be 1,541,900 people living within the Kent County Council area (as of 2016). The estimated resident population of an area includes all people who usually live there, whatever their nationality.
But in Kent the answer is the Catholic Church, whose 114,437 adherents accounted for about 19 percent of county residents in 2010, according to a recently released religious census. The Grand Rapids-born CRC came in third with 43,152 adherents -- a modest 7 percent of Kent residents. In fact, the CRC lost more adherents than any other Kent County church from 2000 to 2010, says this study released every 10 years to take the pulse of religious America.