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EVERGREEN PROMISE

Perpetual renewal or reoccurrence regardless of what happens in the future.

EXAMPLES

One member of a group that is representative of the group. A person is a example of a member of a group of people.

EXCHANGE RATE RISK

Investing or dealing with competing currencies that have no mutually agreed-to fluctuation limit carries this exposure and uncertainty. Known also as currency risk.

EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Equals a stock’s ex-dividend period’s first day. On and after this date until dividend payout date, a buyer of these shares will not earn the dividend yield. Known also as the reinvestment

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

Constitutional right to not disclose information, given to the government’s executive branch. Typically used to cover national defense and foreign policy. Protects sensitive information under the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers.

EXIT STRATEGY

Planned, condition-triggered timing for an investor to divest the assets and investment involved in the strategy, and this exit. It can be a planned buyout arrangement or cashing out of a startup

EXPECTANCY VALUE MODEL

Consumer attitude theory type proposing consumers ranking of products is based on all of the product’s characteristics. Known also as the fishbein model.

EXPEDITE

Prioritize; do as quickly as possible, but attain the expected outcome; achieve results faster.

EXPENSE REPORT

1. Accounting details and summarization of all expenses posted by a company in a specific time-period. A detailed report produced monthly, quarterly, or yearly for parts or all of the business. Subsections

EXPIRED

When a contract ends that was active between parties.

EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING

Finding changes in data but ignoring fluctuations that have no influence. Older data is given less considerations while newer is more important. AKA averaging.

EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE (XML)

A document description language that was started in 1998. It is regulated by the W3C. It allows different computer interact with eachother. It is a subset of ISO language. It gies tags

EXTERNAL FINANCING

Money from outside investors and lenders not from the firm’s internal reserves.

EXTRA RISK

A party or risk that is outside standard insurance. It is needed to pay a higher premium or getting less coverage.

EFFICIENCY WAGE

Wage higher than market that raises worker morale to achieve higher output and discourage absenteeism and inventory shrinkage.

ELASTICITY

1. In Economics, this is the measure of responsiveness to an increase or decrease in its price or capability of a good or service to demand and supply of a good or

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