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CONGESTION PRICING

Installing fee strucures for motor ways during high traffic. It is based on supply and demand but used in urban areas through electronic systems.

CONSEQUENTLY

Anything that occurs due to a previous event. Refer to subsequently.

CONSTRUCT

A story used to organize facts and explain theories. Refer to constructed knowledge. AKA hypothetical construct, logical construct, or theoretical construct.

CONTENT PROVIDER

A business that gives graphics and text for articles. It is used for publications or a website to make it catch the eye of the reader.

CONTRA ENTRY

A debit or credit entry made in the books to balance an earlier event.

CONTRACT COST ANALYSIS

Examination and review of price data, provided by a builder to a main (client), for appraisal of its truth and rationality pertaining to potential economies and accomplishable degree of efficiency.

CONTRACT MODIFICATION

Scripted, one-sided (but included in the ambit of adjustment clause), or agreed together bilaterally, change. A deal alteration may bring in or call off specifications or conditions of a already existing deal,

CONTRACT RATE

Low carriage charge assured by a transporter for a prolonged period, provided that the customer commits to providing a large volume.

BETTERMENTS

A asset whose changes are made to make services better.

BACK DATE

The date on a document that is retroactive. AKA ante date. It is the opposite of post date.

BACKFLUSH COSTING

Pricing a product by using the finished result and working your way back. When inventory must be kept low this is the way costing is done. AKA backflush accounting.

BACKTESTING

The process of determining the validity of a VALUE ATRISK model by comparing actual profit and loss experience with results predicted by the model. The process is also applicable in investment management,

BALANCED SCORECARD (BSC)

When past good performance is used to predict future performance. The cards do not take in to consideration the environment.

BANQUE D

In France, a MERCHANT BANK that invests its own CAPITAL in support of CORPORATE FINANCE transactions and engages in securities UNDERWRITING and TRADING.

BARRIER MATERIAL

Material used to make barrels. It is meant to stop leaking of gas, liquid, and radiation.

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