Category: E

Projected useful time of revenue or service generation of an asset. Known also as estimated life.

Directives based on one’s ethics and morality. How one lives with others. The foremost concepts and principles of proper human conduct. Socially, it is the collective of universal values, treating each human

International stock and derivatives exchange. From the merger of the Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris exchanges and the purchase of London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) and the Bolsa de Valores

Alloy mixture of two or more components. Eutectic alloys are fusible, becoming a very well mixed solid as they solidify from a liquid while cooling. Proportioned mixtures attain a melting point as

In life insurance, requirements for becoming insured are satisfied by documented evidence.

Not perfect, yet achieving the highest levels of performance or expectations. Better than outstanding or superior.

A plan that includes social security in its retirement funding.

Marketable, tradable vehicles, like bonds or shares one can swap, rather than sell and buy, for another common stock.

Area up to 200 miles (321.87 Km) offshore is the exclusive area of resource management by the government and country owning that coast. Free navigation is allowed by all countries beyond 12

The payoff, regardless of how or what, on a completed promise. Refer to executory consideration.

Business continuity plan section for smooth, pre-planned, transferal of authority under any condition. It identifies who succeeds the current position holder and is done for every position deemed critical for recovery from

External factors in a model, organism, organization, or system cause this type of condition. Contrast to endogenous.

Experience-based mortality-table-calculation of an average person’s number of remaining years of life, as of a certain age.

Unrepairable, consumed-when-used component or part, like a bolt, nut, or rivet (1) needing no authorized repair procedure; (2) having excessive repair cost exceeding replacement cost; (3) listed as un-returnable inventory at issue.

Upper limit of what a landlord or tenant will pay. The provision obligates the renter to pay a maximum of certain fees. Beyond that maximum, the landlord owes the rest. Represents an

An expense for revenue in a period of time when benefits are also received. If a business gets all benefits from a cost it is an expired cost.

A form for customs the exporter done at the port to describe the exports and be a control document. An export license or certificate of origin is needed as well.

A place tha can do 24 hour nursing care by local and state laws.

A rule that lets employees not working extend their coverage after the policy ends. It lasts until they come back to work or are discharged from a hospital.

A report that has the company information in it. It is meant for the public to get the data needed to make decisions.