Category: E

If the company would announce the uncertainty, it would end the doubt enveloping a company’s financial situation.

Measured energy usage by the contracted energy user. Measured by the generating entity, typically the energy utility over its transmission lines.

A person signed up to receive benefits from a health insurance plan. Dependents of an insured are excluded.

Organized, computerized, periodic analysis of customers, sales, and market data. Computerized analysis trends detect patterns of demand, usage, and service requirements. Patterns are feedback to devise new or improved procedures and policies

A measurable condition. The level of disorder in a closed but changing system. The system can only change in one direction, from a relatively ordered state to a more disordered state. During

A non-governmental organization (NGO) focused specifically on the environment and its unique issues.

Planned, static, constant-amount repayment installments. May be post-dated checks collected in advance. Typically cover hire purchases, leases, or loans.

Ordinary shares of various types of stocks are bought and sold in a central trading place, called a securities market. In the US there are several of such markets, collectively called The

A place for trading investment vehicles, giving companies sources of capital, as well as investments for another entity to share risks, invest, and raise personal worth. Known also as stock market.

Calculated yearly cost for owning an asset, tallied up to a to-date, life-time cost of ownership.

Scholarly; smart. People who have great knowledge from spending extended time gaining this knowledge. This knowledge is gained formally through school, or personally by reading. Experts are considered to be erudite in

Projected leaving time and date for a ship at port or a flight at an airport. Typically for a specific city. Known also as expected time of departure.

Basing choices on what seems right or reasonable solely on one’s belief or value system. A trend of making ethical decisions this way.

Foreign currency denomination-based loan.

Exchange rating against one US dollar. Rate is how much of a foreign currency, in units and fractions, will buy one US dollar. The reciprocal term is how many US dollars, in

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

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

Expense for using more miles than the maximum agreed to on a lease or rental contract.

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

Known also as exclusive agency agreement.