Category: Finance Dictionary

Accounting showing income and expenses in a not normal way. This is done to bury financial issues.

An area like a city with abandoned buildings or in disrepair. Refer to browfield site or greenfield site.

A facility offered by certain FUTURES EXCHANGES where two parties agree to cross (buy/sell) a large transaction away from the exchange in order not to skew prices. Once a transaction is concluded

Insurance that covers hospital treatments with some restrictions. Refer to blue shield.

The slang way of refering to the performance of an investment.

A bonus offered for completing a project without cost overruns. A penalty is charged in the amount of any overcharges. The carrot and stick approach keeps projects on budget and schedule.

The arrangement with a customer and their goods that is a complete sale. AKA reservation and transaction.

A plan where insurers agree that they will not reject property coverage on residential buildings in a slum area. Insurers agree to accept the coverage until there has been an inspection and

Another common term that is used when a check is used for a person that has insufficient funds.

The proprietary combination of names, symbols, and colors that convey visually a brand’s identity.

A price gap that forms on the completion of an important price pattern. A breakaway gap usually signals the beginning of an important price move.

Established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world’s major industrial states in the mid 20th century. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary

A job grading structure that falls between using spot salaries vs. many job grades to determine what to pay particular positions and incumbents within those positions. While broadbanding gives the organization using

The practice of bringing one’s own packed lunch to work or the practice of bringing one’s own liquor to a restaurant or club that cannot sell alcoholic beverages.

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.