Glossary in "Financial Terms"
Financial Terms by:
- Abridged Prospectus
- Absolute Advantage
- Acceptance Credit
- Accounting Equation
- Accreted Value
- Accrual basis
- Accrued Expenses
- Accrued Interest
- Acid Test Ratio
- Acid-test ratio
- Acquisition
- Actual market
- Adequacy of coverage
- Adjusted Futures Price
- Adverse selection
- Affinity fraud
- Ageing schedule
- Algorithmic Trading
- Amalgamation
- Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
- Annual report
- Annual Value
- Anonymous Trading
- Arbitrage-Free Pricing
- Asset allocation
- Auction Rate Securities
- Back Months
- Backup Withholding
- Backwardation
- Balance Sheet
- Balloon Interest
- Bankruptcy
- Base currency
- Basis grades
- Basis point
- Bayes’ Theorem
- Being Bearish
- Being Bullish
- Benchmark
- Benchmark index
- Beneficial owner
- Bid Ask price
- Book-to-Bill-Ratio
- Borrowing Limit
- Bought-deal underwriting
- Budget Deficit
- Business-to-Consumer
- Buyout
- Calendar Spread
- Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR)
- Capital Gains or Losses
- Capital Lease
- Capital Lease Obligations
- Cash Flow
- Cash Settlement
- Collateral
- Commodity
- Conduit Issuers
- Conflict theory
- Consensus Estimate
- Contingent Capital
- Contingent deferred sales charge
- Contribution Margin
- Corporate Action
- Cost of Equity
- Cover Order
- Credit risk
- Currency Hedging
- Currency Swap
- Cut-off-time
- Data Tagging
- Debt to Asset Ratio
- Debt-to-Equity Ratio
- Debtor Risk
- Decoupling
- Defeasance
- Deferment Payment Option
- Deferred compensation
- Demand elasticity
- Depositary Receipts
- Devaluation
- Disbursement
- Distributable Net Income
- Double Taxation Relief
- Dow Theory
- DuPont Analysis
- Dynamic Asset Allocation
- EBITA
- Economic Forecasting
- Efficient Frontier
- Embedded Options
- Emerging Markets
- Equity Clawback
- Escrow
- Excess Equity
- Excess spread
- Exchange Control
- Exchange privilege
- Exchange rate
- Expected maturity date
- Externality
- Fair Market Value
- Fiat money
- Fiduciary Duty
- Fiduciary responsibility
- Finance Charge
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Futures
- Financial independence
- Financial management
- Financial plan
- Fiscal policy
- Fixed Income Securities
- Folio number
- Fringe benefits
- Futures
- Futures contracts
- Giffen Goods
- Global indices
- Grading Certificates
- Green Shoe Options
- Gross Income
- Gross margin
- Hammer Candlestick
- Harmonic mean
- Historical Volatility (HV)
- Holding company
- Holding period
- Hope Credit
- Human capital
- Hurdle rate
- Hybrid annuity
- Hyperdeflation
- Illiquidity
- Inception date
- Income protection insurance
- Income Statement
- Indexation
- Individual Savings Account
- Industry Groups
- Information-less trades
- Insurance
- Intangibles expenses
- Interest Coverage Ratio
- Intermediated market
- Inventory turnover
- Investor fallout
- Joint tenancy
- Junior Market
- Keynesian economics
- Kiddie tax
- Law of One Price
- Letter of Intent
- Leverage ratio
- Liability
- Liquid Assets to Net Worth Ratio
- Liquidity coverage ratio
- Liquidity Ratio
- Liquidity risk
- Listing Rules
- Lump sum payment
- Market Indexes
- Market Order
- Maturity distribution
- Multi-level marketing
- Net present value
- Net profit margin
- Net Profit Margin
- Net Profits Interest
- Operating expenses
- Operating Margin
- Optimal portfolio
- Overcollateralization
- Payroll deduction plan
- Pegging
- Perpetuity
- Personal financial ratios
- Probate Court
- Procurement
- Profit and Loss Statement
- Pump and dump
- Qualifying Annuity
- Quantitative tightening
- Quartile rank
- Quick Ratio
- Racketeering
- Recession
- Redemption
- Redemption fee
- Redemption yield
- Regression analysis
- Relevant Cost
- Replenishment
- Residual maturity
- Risk Tolerance
- Riskometer
- Rollover option
- Savings Ratios
- Securitization
- Short Covering
- Short Selling
- Soft Dollar Broker
- Spillover Effect
- Stagnation
- Strategic Alliance
- Strong order book
- Subrogation
- Sustainability
- T-bills
- Target Leverage Ratio
- Total Debt Servicing Ratio
- Tracking Index
- Trailing Stops
- Transferable notice
- Treynor Ratio
- Trigger Option
- Trust deed
- Turnover Ratio
- Unearned Income
- Value at Risk
- Value chain
- Vertical Financial Analysis
- Visible Supply
- Wealth manager
- Withholding Tax
- Working capital
- Yield on Distribution
- Zeta model
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