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This is a list of abbreviations used in a business or financial context. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008
Definition Action that Put something into practice [1] Baked in Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove. Alternatively, "baked in" can refer to a desirable, although non-essential, property of a product being incorporated for the user's convenience. Boil the ocean Undertake an impossible or impractical task [1]
In international finance, leads and lags refer to the expediting or delaying, respectively, of settlement of payments or receipts in a foreign exchange transaction because of an expected change in exchange rates.
Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to corporate finance: . Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.
The operations of the company are not affected by the financial restructuring. Nonetheless, the financial restructuring requires significant management attention and may lead to customers losing faith in the company. The inability to repay debt in an LBO can be caused by initial overpricing of the target firm and/or its assets.
According to the first approach, investor attention can be approximated with particular financial market-based measures. According to Gervais et al. (2001) [10] and Hou et al. (2009), [11] trading volume is a good proxy for investor sentiment. High (low) trading volume on a particular stock leads to appreciating (depreciating) of its price.
In finance, a position is the amount of a particular security, commodity or currency held or owned by a person or entity. [1]In financial trading, a position in a futures contract does not reflect ownership but rather a binding commitment to buy or sell a given number of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.