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Category: V

VALUE AVERAGING

Strategy of investment where securities are purchased regularly in increasing amounts when the market drops and decreases if it rises.

VALUE MANAGEMENT

Applying value analysis to improve effectiveness and efficiency of business.

VALUE-IN-USE

Accounting. An assets net worth calculated by an estimation of future value and value of disposal if it becomes impaired.

VARIABLE UNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCE

Policy for life insurance featuring variable and universal life insurance. Allows policy owners to have benefits of life insurance for beneficiaries while using life insurance as a tool of savings and investment.

VENTURE CAPITALIST

Private investor offering capital to business ventures with promise. See adventure capitalist and angel investor.

VICARIOUS LIABILITY

Obligation rising from a parties relationship with each other. Also known as vicarious responsibility.

VIRTUAL OFFICE

Mobil environment for work with telecommunication access. See hoteling.

VISUAL IDENTITY

A brands visual elements such a color, shape that conveys the meaning not imparted just by words.

VOLATILE

Unstable and capable of a high to low variation.

VALUATION CHARGE

Additional charge for insurance placed on a shipper whose cargo has a greater value than he is insured to carry.

VALUES

Important ideal or belief shared be members about what is good and what is not about a culture. See value.

VARIATION

Change of output or result that becomes inevitable over time as systems will always vary.

VENTURE PLAN

Plan written by an entrepreneur showing how they manage and direct a new business to get to certain goals.

VERTICAL SPREAD

Option strategy where a put or call option purchase will match one sold of the same class and date of expiry. Also known as perpendicular or price spread.

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