Category: S

The provision or condition in law that designates a point in time when that law will no longer be in effect.

A rate of growth of an industry or firm that is greater than the economy as a whole.

Rights of a landowner to the exterior or upper section of land , water and other substances below the land. See mineral rights and subsurface rights.

The degree where an organism or system is able to be impaired due to a weakness that is inherent in normal operations. See survivability.

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. Global network of communication giving banks 24 hour secure exchange internationally.

An artificial language such as Mathematics that uses symbols to avoid any ambiguities or inadequacies of a natural language like English.

The brief summary or outline of main points of articles, plans or books.

The community, organization or groups agreement that sees the person with the appropriate skills assume the responsibility for the task.

A budget that comprises all of the department budgets for a period of accounting, project or program.

Technique in scheduling ads where 2 ads are run to see which is the more effective.

Strategy in trading by the buying simultaneously of a security and selling a related security against it. Called pairs trading.

Philosophy of management regarding maximizing interests of stake holders as its main objective.

An article that is approved for procurement, issue or storage and is normally kept at hand.

A cost that does not recur in the start up of a business. Also known as start up expenses.

A previous or last contested state before the current state.

Trust that is created by an operation of law where real property is held by trustees for the immediate or essential sale using their discretion.

The pre-determined increase each year of a capital entitlement.

The model or situation that contains a random, unpredictable element that has no order or pattern.

Short term policy that keeps a balance between 2 objectives that appear to be in contradiction with each other.

Blueprint depicting sequence of scenes of a commercial for TV with sketches text and pictures.