Category: Finance Dictionary

The primary deficit is defined as the difference between current government spending and total current revenue from all types of taxes.

A market trend is a putative tendency of a financial market to move in a particular direction over time. These trends are classified as secular for long time frames, primary for medium

Product bundling is a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product.

Placing an ad between other ads in a print publication, so that readers are less likely to see it.

The company’s operations. Fixed assets and accounts receivable may be balanced in accounting using business areas.

When a critical process or function has made it so that a business or firm is no longer able to continue.

A formal analysis of the effect on the business if a specific set of IT services are not available. It will also identify the minimum set of services that an organisation will

Comments on business matters that were handled and stored on a record. These are matters that also require use of the record which also follow up with the action(s) taken after the

Analyzing business processes to determine if there is a more effective way to perform the existing ones, or if they should be completely re-designed. Typical reasons for BPI include outmoded processes or

A business scenario is a view of a possible future external environment based on a set of assumptions about important uncertainties which face the business and which may affect organizational performance.

An electronic commerce exchange where networks are used to connect institutional buyers and sellers of ASSETS, goods or services. See also ALTERNATIVE TRADING SYSTEM, BUSINESSTOCONSUMER (B2C) EXCHANGE, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.

Strategy requiring the simultaneous purchase of underlying securities and the writing of call options over those securities representing the same number of those securities.

A secondary result, unintended but inevitably produced in doing or producing something else.

A asset whose changes are made to make services better.

A process where the BANK OF ENGLAND attempts to influence UK money supply indirectly by dealing in TREASURY BILLS through its own account, at market rates. See also FRONT DOOR.

The inventory left after orders are processed and the manufacturing needs are met. The parts used or bought are taken out of the inventory records to get an idea of what a

1. another resource used to make sure an activity can go on. Or a project that is done if a primary one cannot be done. 2. saving data on disk that are

When balls serve as friction in a bearing. It is designed to reduce friction.

A big hotel room that the public can use and serve food in. AKA banqueting room and function room.

A COMPLEX DERIVATIVE contract that creates or extinguishes an underlying EUROPEAN OPTION as the price of the market reference moves through a specified BARRIER. Four versions of the barrier option are commonly