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LONGEVITY PAY

A contract to provide annual seniority-based employee compensation. Given as compensation for their service to top pay-scale employees.

LOSS CARRYBACK

Current year’s net loss offsets previous year’s taxable income as an accounting adjustment, giving a tax refund as already paid. US tax law allowance. Also refer to loss carryforward.

LOSS RATIO

The ability an insurance company has to cover its loss with premiums.

LOW DOCUMENTATION LOAN

Loans given to borrowers unable or unwilling to give a lender certain information or documentation. A variety of loan types are considered to be low documentation. Not everyone is eligible for this

LUMINANCE

Measuring a light source’s Intensity in a unit area. Also refer to illuminance.

MACAULAY DURATION

In 1938 US academic Frederick Macaulay defined this tool. A fixed-income financial instrument’s approximate measure of its price volatility and interest rate-sensitivity. An interest bearing bond is an instrument example. Calculated as

MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS

National or state-level economic factors. These influence the whole aggregated economy. Changes in employment levels, gross national product (GNP), and prices, be it deflation or inflation, are typical influences.

MAILING LIST

Listed physical mailing addresses. Names, phone numbers, household income levels, and geographical location are typical data elements on the list. Used to send advertisements and relevant information to listed individuals. A company

MAJOR MARKET INDEX

Trading in options and futures is based on an index such as this. 20 blue-chip stocks comprise such a US stockmarket index. 17 of these blue-chip are also in the Dow Jones

MALNUTRITION

An insufficient, poor, sub-nutritional diet or an excessive, rich but unbalanced diet tied to a lack of calories and/or essential minerals, proteins, vitamins, manifests as a diseased state of kwashiorkor, marasmus, oedema,

MANAGEMENT INDICATORS

Resources consumed per unit of output as measured relates actual performance and results achieved to desired, targeted objectives. Also refer to management ratios.

MANIPULATIVE

1. The way one acts attempting to attain selfish ends by disregarding another’s aspirations or well being to control or play upon that one’s hopes or fears. 2. To use a model

MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEM

Management information system type targeting any production becoming computerized. Managers need to plan and direct operations within the company and use modern management information systems designed to collect and present the necessary

MARGINAL COST OF CAPITAL

Cost determination method for obtaining just one more dollar of capital. When considering how to raise additional funds, some methods are more costly than others.

MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY THEORY OF WAGES

Economic concept that marginal productivity determines labor demand and labor’s marginal product value determines the wage rates. Also known as marginal productivity theory of income distribution.

MARGINAL VALUE PRODUCT

Output’s market value after adding a single input unit. Multiply the marginal product by the added output unit’s selling price. Also known as marginal revenue product.

MARKET COVERAGE

In a given market, as a percentage of a saturation level, a count of active retail and/or wholesale outlets selling a specific firm’s brands. Following a concentrated marketing, a differentiated marketing, or

MARKET VALUE

1. In an open and competitive market, a buyer willingly pays and a seller willingly takes this highest estimated, and acceptable, price for an item . 2. In Accounting, this is the

MARKUP LANGUAGE

Describing, and wrapping or encapsulating data and its attributes using a specialized computer language. A markup language embeds processing instructions, called tags, in electronic documents. This is done to accurately style and

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