Auction Markets Marketplace wherein the price prevailing is established by free interaction of future sellers and buyers, such as is carried out on the stock exchange floor. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Auditor’s Report
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Auditor's Report Annual report section outlining an opinion about the truthfulness of financial statements, given by the auditor. … [Read more...]
Authorized Shares
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Authorized Shares The total quantity of shares that are approved by the corporate charter of firm for issuing. … [Read more...]
Autocorrelation
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Autocorrelation Over succeeding time gaps, a correlation of a given variable with itself. … [Read more...]
Automated Clearing House (ACH)
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Automated Clearing House (ACH) A collection of 32 regional electronic interbank networks used to process transactions electronically with a guaranteed one-day bank collection float. … [Read more...]
Automatic Exercise
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Automatic Exercise Protection mechanism for option holder whereby the Option Clearing Corporation automatically ensures the exercising of an option for the holder that is "in the money". … [Read more...]
Automatic Stay
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Automatic Stay A restriction on creditors from continuing collection efforts by seizing collateral. It is automatically in force when a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is filed. … [Read more...]
Autoregressive
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Autoregressive Use of historical data to make predictions about a date in future. … [Read more...]
Availability Float
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Availability Float Deposited checks that have not yet been cleared and funds made available to depositing firm. … [Read more...]
Average
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Average Mean of some chosen stocks that are designed to represent market behavior or behavior of a component of the market. For example, Dow Jones Industrial Average. … [Read more...]
Average Accounting Return
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Average Accounting Return The earning from a project after adjusting taxes and depreciation divided by the book value of the investment over its useful life, on an average. … [Read more...]
Average Age of Accounts Receivable
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Average Age of Accounts Receivable A firm’s outstanding invoice age computed using weighted-averages. … [Read more...]
Average Age Of Inventory
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Average Age Of Inventory Average time taken in number of days for a firm to sell its inventory product. Formula: (average cost of inventory at its present level divided by cost of goods sold) multiplied by 365. … [Read more...]
Average Collection Period, or Days’ Receivables
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Average Collection Period, or Days' Receivables Accounts receivables compared to sales as a ratio, Or average AR/sales * 365 (total credit extended for each dollar of daily sales). … [Read more...]
Average Cost of Capital
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Average Cost of Capital Payout required to be made by a firm to stockholders and bondholders, expressed in terms of a percentage of the contribution of capital. Formula: total required cost of capital divided by total amount of capital contributed. … [Read more...]
Average Daily Float
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Average Daily Float -The dollar value of checks or similar negotiable instruments that can be said to be under collection process over a period, divided by total number of days of that period - The number of shares of a company that are outstanding and tradable for the public on an … [Read more...]
Average Life
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Average Life Also termed weighted-average life (WAL). Number of years on average that a dollar of outstanding principal on a mortgage remains unpaid. Computed as the weighted average time (using the principal paydowns’ dollar amounts as weights) to receipt of all future cash flows. … [Read more...]
Average Maturity
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Average Maturity Time left, on an average, to maturity date on securities owned by a mutual fund. Long average life funds are impacted more by interest rate changes. … [Read more...]
Average (Across-Day) Measures
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Average (Across-Day) Measures Price estimation using average price or representative price of trades in large numbers cumulatively. … [Read more...]
Average Rate of Return (ARR)
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Average Rate of Return (ARR) Average cash inflow compared to investment amount represented as a ratio. … [Read more...]
