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... DICTIONARY OF ETHICAL AND LEGAL TERMS AND ISSUES RT53227.indb 10/9/06 9:54:36 AM RT53227.indb 10/9/06 9:54:36 AM DICTIONARY OF ETHICAL AND LEGAL TERMS AND ISSUES The Essential ... Introduction ix Part I: Dictionary of Ethical and Legal Terms Part II: Ethical Issues and Considerations 103 Part III: Legal Issues and Considerations 163 Appendix: Key Legal Cases and Legislation Impacting ... referred to as mandatory ethics aspirational professional standards Standards of professional practice that exceed the minimum standards mandated by a code of professional ethics Standards that...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Financial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... based on profitability and is taxable as income A cash distribution may include capital gains and return of capital in addition to the dividend 22 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... based on profitability and is taxable as income A cash distribution may include capital gains and return of capital in addition to the dividend 22 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... based on profitability and is taxable as income A cash distribution may include capital gains and return of capital in addition to the dividend 22 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... based on profitability and is taxable as income A cash distribution may include capital gains and return of capital in addition to the dividend 22 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... based on profitability and is taxable as income A cash distribution may include capital gains and return of capital in addition to the dividend 22 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico...

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... 7_4105_DO_CompInternetTerms_FM 12/29/08 10:15 AM Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms Tenth Edition Douglas A Downing, Ph.D School of Business and Economics Seattle Pacific University ... University He is the author of several books in both Barron’s Easy Way and Business Review series He is also the author of Java Programming the Easy Way and Dictionary of Mathematics Terms, published by ... color is made by mixing red, green, and blue, each of which is measured on a scale of to 255, and a total of 16,777,216 colors is available Often called “millions of colors.” 24 × (or 24/7, 24-7)...

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... Mac") and Federal National Mortgage Association (" Fannie Mae") Agency problem Conflicts of interest among stockholders, bondholders, and managers 5 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms ... subject to per- interval and to life -of- loan interest rate and/ or payment rate caps Articles of incorporation Legal document establishing a corporation and its structure and purpose Asian currency ... average number of years that each dollar of unpaid principal due on the mortgage remains outstanding Average life is computed as the weighted 10 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis...

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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... Boilerplate Standard terms and conditions Bond Bonds are debt and are issued for a period of more than one year The U.S government, local governments, water districts, companies and many other types of...

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... groupings such as growth, cyclical, stable and energy stocks Coefficient of determination A measure of the goodness of fit of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables in a regression ... pool of pass-throughs , structured so that there are several classes of bondholders with varying maturities, called tranches The principal payments from 25 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms ... as percentages of amounts in an initial year Common-size analysis The representing of balance sheet items as percentages of assets and of income statement items as percentages of sales Company-specific...

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... Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one's funds in the form of life annuity Deficit An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure ... called the hedge ratio, the ratio of the change in price of a call option to the change in price of the underlying stock 38 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & ... written Demand deposits Checking accounts that pay no interest and can be withdrawn upon demand Demand line of credit A bank line of credit that enables a customer to borrow on a daily or on-demand...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 22:20

... movement of capital, labor, all goods and services, and involves the harmonization and unification of social, fiscal, and monetary policies Economies of scale The decrease in the marginal cost of production ... system of financial control Highlights the fact that return on assets (ROA) can be expressed in terms of the profit margin and asset turnover Duration A common gauge of the price sensitivity of an ... museums, hospitals, and foundations The investment income may be used for the operation of the institution and for capital expenditures 46 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis -...

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... financial future of a firm 55 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Financial planning The process of evaluating the investing and financing ... bonds and preferred stock Fixed-income market The market for trading bonds and preferred stock Fixed price basis An offering of securities at a fixed price Fixed-price tender offer A one-time offer ... trade date Forward cover Purchase or sale of forward foreign currency in order to offset a known future cash flow 59 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas...

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... 62 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Generic Refers to the characteristics and/ or experience of the total universe of a coupon of ... side of a transaction (ie a repo) Handle The whole-dollar price of a bid or offer is referred to as the handle (ie if a security is quoted at 101.10 bid and 101.11 offered, 101 is the handle) ... project instead of a smaller project Indenture Agreement between lender and borrower which details specific terms of the bond issuance Specifies legal obligations of bond issuer and rights of bondholders...

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... compatible degree of corporate leverage Leverage ratios Measures of the relative contribution of stockholders and creditors, and of the firm's ability to pay financing charges Value of firm's debt ... synthetically created by a package of other securities, the price of the package and the price of the security whose payoff it replicates must be equal Lead Payment of a financial obligation earlier ... Legal capital Value at which a company's shares are recorded in its books Legal bankruptcy A legal proceeding for liquidating or reorganizing a business Legal defeasance The deposit of cash and...

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... compatible degree of corporate leverage Leverage ratios Measures of the relative contribution of stockholders and creditors, and of the firm's ability to pay financing charges Value of firm's debt ... that they are an "owner" or holder of options (i e the number of contracts bought exceeds the number of contracts sold) 86 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas ... Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Legal investments Investments that a regulated entity is permitted to make under the rules and...

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... 102 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Opportunity set The possible expected return and standard deviation pairs of all portfolios ... offer by launching its own tender offer for the other firm Pairoff A buy-back to offset and effectively liquidate a prior sale of securities Paper Money market instruments, commercial paper and ... strategy A strategy of using futures for asset allocation by pension sponsors to avoid disrupting the activities of money managers 104 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria...

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... Shareholders can and often give management their proxy, representing the right and responsibility to vote their shares as specified in the proxy statement 115 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms ... liquidity and ability to meet its obligations Also called the Acid Test ratio Quotation The bid and offered prices a dealer is willing to buy or sell at 117 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms ... on the sale of shares valued at $1000 will result in payment 119 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br of $980 (or 98% of the value)...

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... Riskless rate of return The rate earned on a riskless asset Riskless arbitrage The simultaneous purchase and sale of the same asset to yield a profit 125 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico ... will fall in value An investor then buys back the shares and pockets the difference as profit 130 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br ... shareholders on a pro rata basis 124 Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Rights offering Issuance of "rights" to current shareholders allowing...

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... mean of and a standard deviation of Standardized value Also called the normal deviate, the distance of one data point from the mean, divided by the standard deviation of the distribution Standby ... class Standard deviation The square root of the variance A measure of dispersion of a set of data from their mean Standard error In statistics, a measure of the possible error in an estimate Standardized ... by a trade-off of the value of tax shields against the costs of bankruptcy Statutory surplus The surplus of an insurance company determined by the accounting treatment of both assets and liabilities...

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