Glossary in "Financial Acronyms"
Financial Terms by:
- Analysis of variance
- Annual Percentage rate
- Applicable federal rate
- ARPU
- Automated teller machine
- Average True Range (ATR)
- Balance of trade (BOT)
- Balanced scorecard
- CAGR
- Capital expenditure (Capex)
- Central limit theorem
- Certificate of deposit
- Coefficient of Variation (CV)
- Constant maturity treasury
- Contingent deferred sales charges
- Creative Destruction (CD)
- Cumulative total return
- DCF
- Double Taxation Agreement
- Employee stock option
- Federal Open Market Committee
- FIRE
- Floating Rate Notes
- GAAP
- GATT
- GDPR
- General and administrative expenses
- Hysteresis
- Individual retirement account (IRA)
- Investment adviser public disclosure
- Investment adviser registration depository
- Irrevocable Trust
- Letter of credits (LC)
- Letter of Intent
- Line of credit
- Mark-to-market
- Net asset value (NAV)
- NPL
- OPEX
- PATMI
- Price-to-Book Ratio
- Price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
- Quantitative easing
- REITS
- Retail price index (RPI)
- Return on Assets (ROA)
- Return on Equity (ROE)
- Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
- RevPAR
- Rights of accumulation (ROA)
- SPAC
- Statement of additional information
- Unit investment trust (UIT)
- WACC
- Year to date
- Yield to maturity
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