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Category: V

VALENCE

Positive or negative psychological value assigned by one person to another, event, job, outcome etc., based on its attractiveness to him.

VALUE INVESTING

Strategy of investment where shares that appear cheap, trading at less than true value, are bought. See growth investing.

VENN DIAGRAM

Mapping diagram of overlapping circles showing the relationship between items.

VIATICAL SETTLEMENT

Settlement where an insurer pays a part of death benefits covering a person with a terminal illness.

VIRTUAL

1. General. Having the properties of a thing but being the thing. 2. Computing. An operation or feature appearing to exist but it does not.

VISUAL BASIC

Microsoft designed programming language interface allowing programmers to modify Basic Code.

VOTING RIGHT

Delegable right of a common share holder to vote in decision making processes and to select board members.

VALIDATE

1. General. Making something effective and legal. 2. Accounting. Confirm or attest to a financial item. 3. Decision making. Establish a decisions worth.

VALUE ANALYSIS

1. Manufacturing. Analysis identifying and selecting alternatives with best value for materials, design, systems and processes. Also known as value engineering. 2. Purchasing. Replacing items with more cost effective items. Also known

VALUE JUDGMENT

Subjective assessment that something is good or bad, may or may not happen. Involve ethical, aesthetical, moral values that are not factual statements.

VALUED ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTE

Important part of an ecosystem, welfare of the environment, health of a person that cab at risk from behavior and natural events.

VENT FOR SURPLUS

Adam Smith theory proposing that greater economic resources are used in international trade than through national trade.

VERTICAL PORTAL

Web site serving as the point of entry to a niche market, area of interest or subject of interest. Also known as a mortal. See horizontal portal.

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