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  2. Sunk cost - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a firm sinks $400 million on an enterprise software installation, that cost is "sunk" because it was a one-time expense and cannot be recovered once spent. A "fixed" cost would be monthly payments made as part of a service contract or licensing deal with the company that set up the software.

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    The itemization of an individual's or firm's total income and total expenses for a set period of time, usually a month or a year. budget deficit. Also simply called spending. The amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time; it is the opposite of budget surplus. The term may be applied to the budget of a government ...

  4. Capital expenditure - Wikipedia

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    Capital expenditures are the funds used to acquire or upgrade a company's fixed assets, such as expenditures towards property, plant, or equipment (PP&E). [3] In the case when a capital expenditure constitutes a major financial decision for a company, the expenditure must be formalized at an annual shareholders meeting or a special meeting of the Board of Directors.

  5. Expense - Wikipedia

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    An expense report is a form of document that contains all the expenses that an individual has incurred as a result of the business operation. For example, if the owner of a business travels to another location for a meeting, the cost of travel, the meals, and all other expenses that he/she has incurred may be added to the expense report.

  6. Half-life - Wikipedia

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    In this situation it is generally uncommon to talk about half-life in the first place, but sometimes people will describe the decay in terms of its "first half-life", "second half-life", etc., where the first half-life is defined as the time required for decay from the initial value to 50%, the second half-life is from 50% to 25%, and so on.

  7. Final expense insurance - AOL

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    Term life insurance: Term policies provide coverage for a set period — usually 10, 20 or 30 years — and often offer larger death benefits at relatively affordable rates. If you’re able to ...

  8. Two-body problem in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    This approach is called "post-Newtonian" because the Newtonian solution for the particle orbits is often used as the initial solution. The theory can be divided into two parts: first one finds the two-body effective potential that captures the GR corrections to the Newtonian potential. Secondly, one should solve the resulting equations of motion.

  9. Application-specific integrated circuit - Wikipedia

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    A solution to this problem, which also yielded a much higher density device, was the implementation of standard cells. [7] Every ASIC manufacturer could create functional blocks with known electrical characteristics, such as propagation delay , capacitance and inductance, that could also be represented in third-party tools.