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A financial calculator or business calculator is an electronic calculator that performs financial functions commonly needed in business and commerce communities [1] (simple interest, compound interest, cash flow, amortization, conversion, cost/sell/margin, depreciation etc.).
EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator; EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer; EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory; EFF—Electronic Frontier Foundation; EFI—Extensible Firmware Interface; EFM—Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation; EFM—Ethernet in the First Mile; EFS—Encrypting File System
Project stakeholders are those entities within or without an organization which sponsor a project or, have an interest or a gain upon a successful completion of a project. Project team is the management team leading the project, and provide services to the project. Projects often bring together a variety number of problems.
"Directly supervising qualified research" is the first-line supervision of qualified research. This does not include the higher-level managers to whom the first-line supervisors report. "Supporting qualified research" includes an employee's time spent aiding the direct conduct of research and development.
QTIP trust is a type of trust and an estate planning tool used in the United States. "QTIP" is short for "Qualified Terminable Interest Property." A QTIP trust is often used in order to take advantage of the marital deduction and still control the ultimate distribution of the assets at the death of the surviving spouse.
Fixed effect: An effect associated with an input variable that has a limited number of levels or in which only a limited number of levels are of interest to the experimenter. Interaction: Occurs when the effect of one factor on a response depends on the level of another factor(s).
Software researchers and practitioners have been addressing the problems of effort estimation for software development projects since at least the 1960s; see, e.g., work by Farr [8] [9] and Nelson. [10] Most of the research has focused on the construction of formal software effort estimation models.
In business and for engineering economics in both industrial engineering and civil engineering practice, the minimum acceptable rate of return, often abbreviated MARR, or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other projects. [1]