Category: M

An issue underlying several other problems. Essential to resolving these problems is understanding, and possibly resolving, this underlying issue. For example, society, or a section of a society, is suffering from crime,

Un-conventional funding having both debt and equity characteristics. It has equity-based options, like warrants, and lower-priority, subordinate debt. It is most commonly used to finance acquisitions and buyouts. Another example of mezzanine

An organization’s immediate area of operations, its performance and decision-making freedom varies based on specific environmental factors or elements. Competitors, customers, distribution channels, suppliers, and the general public are some of these

Company founded in 1975 by former CEO Bill Gates. Technology corporation that develops computer software and interfaces with the World Wide Web (WWW). Microsoft Windows is an operating system that is the

During the accounting period a company may acquire an asset, but only recognizes it within a specific, different time of the year.

During the hotworking of metals, a layer forms of this type of dark brown or black oxide.

Minimizing the maximum losses that could occur in an event or situation is this specific type of decision-making principle. Should a strategy fail, this financial and business strategy measures potential results leading

A retrospective rating plan’s premium. No matter what losses occur under a given plan, this is the smallest amount the insured can pay.

US legal requirement that a criminal suspect shall be told of standing constitutional rights before being interrogated. This rule results from the 1966 case of Miranda vs. State of Arizona. This requirement

A good, substance, privilege, or right used improperly, unforeseeably, or not as intended.

Portable, wireless telephone device. Cellular towers connect the calls between two devices. Mobile phones are the most widely used portable device in the world, using transmitted frequencies. Motorola developed the first mobile

BOM including available options and their variations for each listed material item.

That which relates to money. The mechanisms supplying it, circulating it, and running an economy. Contrast to that which relates to public revenues like taxation and public spending, debt, and finance, These

A single molecule used in a material or substance. It gets combined with other monomers to become a polymer.

All actions are moral and ethical if they do not coerce and do not interfere with others’ rights is this specific ethical concept.

Expected mortality minus actual mortality experienced is this specific number.

To repay the balance on a mortgage loan in case the mortgagor dies before payoff, one buys this type of decreasing-term life insurance policy.

Refer to maintenance, repair, operations items.

Marketing products by various methods and schemes while also selling the products through various distribution channels that support the other channels selling this same product. Typically the marketer reinforces the other channels

A coupon given based on the performance on multiple indexes.