Category: S

A computer system that has protection that is provided through software and hardware that prevents against corruption of data, interception of data and any loss of data or unauthorised access.

A customer’s account that is held seperate from a brokerage firms funds.

An injury or harm that is inflicted on one’s self.

A scheme that is sponsored by the government where members of the community are encouraged to improve themselves through the means of creating self employment, food growing or providing themselves with shelter.

A record of primary value that is referred to occasionally. A record with less than one reference for each linear foot in each month.

An alphabetical order of transactions of incomes and liabilities recorded down in a ledger.

When a mortgage is in danger of going into default as payments are greater than 90 days late.

A contract between the person or company providing a service and its customer. It will list nature, scope and quality of a service that is to be provided.

A device of low power that controls a device that is more powerful when it senses changes in variables.

Strict, austere or intense with disastrous consequences.

The legal system used by the Islamic people that is based on principles in the Koran and other literature.

A term in Japan where employees are aware, through training, of an organisations norms, culture , principles, objectives, traditions, methods of operation and its value system.

The gross weight of a shipped item that includes all wrapping, packaging, boxing but excludes the container.

A rise, in the short term, of a trading price for a security or futures contract due the buying of short sellers out of that position.

A ratio indicating how much a firm relies on its short term financing.

Any movement in the price an asset shows over a short period of time such as hours or days. Day traders try to profit from these trands.

The level of output where total revenue is equal to total variable costs and the price of the product equals an average variable price.

A geographical area of California that is considered the hub of technology of the US that comprises computer companies and manufacturers of computer chips.

A dwelling structure that is complete in one unit and not attached to another dwelling by common walls.

A systrem of accounting that is simple where all transactions are only recorded once and not as in a double=entry book keeping system.