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Capitalism. Business cycles are intervals of general expansion followed by recession in economic performance. The changes in economic activity that characterize business cycles have important implications for the welfare of the general population, government institutions, and private sector firms. There are numerous specific definitions of what ...
Fee-for-service. Fee-for-service ( FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately. [ 1] In health care, it gives an incentive for physicians to provide more treatments because payment is dependent on the quantity of care, rather than quality of care. However evidence of the effectiveness of FFS in improving health ...
The Austrian business cycle theory ( ABCT) is an economic theory developed by the Austrian School of economics seeking to explain how business cycles occur. The theory views business cycles as the consequence of excessive growth in bank credit due to artificially low interest rates set by a central bank or fractional reserve banks. [ 1]
A service-level agreement is an agreement between two or more parties, where one is the customer and the others are service providers. This can be a legally binding formal or an informal "contract" (for example, internal department relationships). The agreement may involve separate organizations or different teams within one organization.
Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A business will sometimes factor its receivable assets to meet its present and immediate cash needs. [ 4][ 5] Forfaiting is a factoring arrangement ...
The schedule is generated based on a set of rules and market conventions to define the frequencies of the payments. These parameters include: Payment Frequency (Annually, Semi Annually, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Continuous) Payment Day - Day of the month the payment is made. Date rolling - Rule used to adjust the payment date if the ...
Procure-to-pay (also known as Purchase to Pay (P2P)) is a term used in the software industry to designate a specific subdivision of the procurement process. The P2P systems enable the integration of the purchasing department with the accounts payable (AP) department. Some of the largest players of the software industry agree on a common ...
Finance. A syndicated loan is one that is provided by a group of lenders and is structured, arranged, and administered by one or several commercial banks or investment banks known as lead arrangers . The syndicated loan market is the dominant way for large corporations in the U.S. and Europe to receive loans from banks and other institutional ...