Category: Finance

A non-profit organization or company that does not need to pay tax when it buys or sells items.

Securities trading where the price moves in reverse and acts as a stabilizing action to a fast trend and not due to market situation.

Technology and science associated with communications over distances.

Measure of heat and cold by degrees by a thermometer.

Payment made when a document is signed.

1. Asset’s value at the end of its productive life. 2. Investment value at maturity.

Ranked in third position of importance. See second art, primary, service industry.

Material that is made up from synthetic or natural materials.

In a time and motion study, it is the base elemental motion representative of one of 18 standardized motions developed by Frank and Lillian Gilbert.

The property of a gel to turn into a fluid under pressure and to return a gel when pressure is released.

Time needed for material, subassembly or part to move through a manufacturing process. Full name is manufacturing throughput time.

Document showing hours worked by an employee.

Activity schedule based an a time scale. See time phasing.

A service or goods that are available at a certain time.

Stock and derivative exchange of Japan with offices in London, New York and Singapore going back to 1878.

An implement or item that is used for a set purpose.

Canadian equities exchange based in Toronto, Ontario.

Quantity where a substance will produce a harmful effect. See toxic concentration.

Group of countries engaging in international trade together and are normally in a free trade agreement .

1. Increasing number of product features, quality improvements, increasing support services to justify a higher price. Trading down is the opposite. 2. Selling type where a customer can be persuaded to buy