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FIN 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, was an interpretation of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) published on January 17, 2003 by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) [1] that made it more difficult to remove assets and liabilities from a company's balance sheet if the company retained an economic exposure to the assets and ...
A special-purpose entity (SPE; or, in Europe and India, special-purpose vehicle/SPV; or, in some cases in each EU jurisdiction, FVC, financial vehicle corporation) is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, specific or temporary objectives.
The entity does not have enough equity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support (e.g., the entity is thinly capitalized) The equity holders, as a group, lack any one of the common characteristics of a controlling financial interest: The power to direct the economic activities of the entity through voting rights
Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an abbreviation for Cost of Equity (COE). Ke is the risk-adjusted, theoretical rate of return on a Company's invested excess capital obtained through external investments.
In my case, it was the difference between earning 0.1% APY and 3.8% APY. If I had saved $10,000 in the account, this would have amounted to a difference of $370 a year in interest income.
The risk premium represents the compensation awarded to the equity holder for taking on a higher risk by investing in equities rather than government bonds. [1] However, the 5% to 8% premium is considered to be an implausibly high difference and the equity premium puzzle refers to the unexplained reasons driving this disparity.
One of the fun parts of reporting on finance is that the subject is so broad and full of wonky niches that there is always something new to learn.
1. The stock looks like a bargain. Dollar General is currently being priced as a no-growth company in secular decline. The stock trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 12. That's based on earnings ...