Category: Finance Dictionary

An increase in profit or savings due to implementation of a program or project.

Water that becomes scum and scale. It interferes with the industrial process. It is alkaline because of small amounts of inorganic compounds from soil and rocks. It can be temporary and dissolved

A magazine the Harvard business school started in 1922. There is useful information for business people. Articles cover every angle of finance. The audience is a senior manager.

Any difference from normal function in the body due to an external agent.

A substance that absorbs heat from a machine. Water can be used and does not use power to do the work. Refer to heat exchanger.

When a risky trading position and hedge are treated as one to increase profits and prevent loss.

A chemical agent that decreases oxygen in blood causing death.

An asset not on the balance sheet like a long term contract or lease.

Stock that gets a high price and trading volume in a short time.

When the highest and lowest cost is used to estimate the variables in a mixed cost.

A column chart that shows a sumary of changes in the upper and lower data sets. An x axis and a y axis are used to shown. Rectangles are also used to

A party that gets an instrument with knowledge that it is not properly negotiated. Refer to holder in good faith.

A 3d image used on credit cards and other objects to make sure it is authentic. 100mb is on 1cm3 of crystal.

The main page of a website that gives the owner’s information and links for other parts of the page. It is the first page shown but can be changed by the visitors

The elastic limit on a solid material. The strain is measured to show how much a material can take and have the same shape. When the limit is passed it is the

When competitors and distribtors on the same level change prices to control supply. It causes a nonpricing horizontal restraint.

A direct reduced iron that is made into a brick shape that has 90-92% iron.