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- 11th District Cost of Funds Index
- 130/30 Mutual Fund
- 183-Day Rule
- 2/28Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (2/28ARM)
- 2000 Investor Limit
- 2011 U.S. Debt Ceiling Crisis
- 25% Rule
- 3-2-1 Buy-Dow Mortgage
- 3/27Adjustable-Rate Mortgage
- 3-6-3 Rule
- 30-Year Treasury
- 341 Meeting
- 360 Degree Branding
- 3C1
- 3C7
- 401(a) Plan
- 403(b) Plan
- 408(k) Plan
- 412(i) Plan
- 457 Plan
- 48-Hour Rule
- 5-6 Hybrid Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)
- 500 Shareholder Threshold
- 501(c)
- 501(c)(3) Organizations
- 52-Week High/Low
- 529 Savings Plan
- 60-Plus Delinquencies
- 8(a) Firm
- 80-20 Rule
A
- A-B Split
- A-B Trust
- A Round Financing
- AB Initio
- ABA Bank Index
- Abandon
- Abandonment Clause
- Abandonment Option
- Abatement
- Abatement Cost
- Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA)
- Abbreviated New Drug Submission
- ABC Agreement
- Abduct
- Abduction
- Abet
- Abeyance
- Abeyance Order
- Abide
- Ability To Pay
- Ability-To-Pay Taxation
- Ability To Repay
- Abjure
- Able
- Abnormal Earnings Valuation Model
- Abnormal Return
- abode
- Abolish
- Abort
- Abortion
B
- Bad Debt
- Bailment
- Balance Sheet
- Balancing Allowance
- Bale Cargo
- Barrels of Oil Equivalent Per Day (BOE/D)
- Battery
- Bell Curve
- Below the Market
- Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
- Bid Requirements
- Bioassay
- Blighted Area
- Bond Issue Costs
- Bottom Up
- Box Option
- broadband
- brokerage
- Budget Deficit
- burden rate
- business climate
- Business Continuation Insurance
- buyer's guide
C
- Capital Efficiency
- Carrier's Lien
- cash-on-cash return
- Casting
- Catastrophe Hazard
- Centronics Interface
- Charitable Contribution
- Circulation Expenses
- Civil Law
- Clean-Up Requirement
- Clock Speed
- Club Class
- Co-Terminal
- Code of Practice
- Cold Drawing
- Color of Title
- Combination Plan
- Complementary Good
- Compliance Assurance
- Compreg
- Concierge
- Confession and Avoidance
- Conspicuous
- Constructive Trust
- Consular Invoice
- Continuity Program
- Contract Award
- contractor-owned, contractor-operated
- Convertible Arbitrage
- corporate action
D
- Data Entity
- Data Smoothing
- Data Warehouse
- Decibel (dB)
- Declared Value for Carriage
- Decoupling Stock
- Deferred Debit
- Demonstrated Reserves
- descriptive name
- Determinant
- Detriment
- Devastavit
- Devil's Advocate
- Diagonal Spread
- Differential Advantage
- Direct Reduced Iron (DRI)
- Disaster Relief Act
- Disaster Response
- disbursement
- Discretionary Management
- diseconomies of scale
- Distributed Database
- Dock Receipt
- Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform Bill
- Domestic Insurer
- Domestic Relations Order (DRO)
- Doomsday Ratio
- Double Taxation
- Douglass Index
- Dun & Bradstreet Rating
E
- Earthquake Insurance
- Economic Duress
- Economical
- Effective Net Worth
- Efficiency Wage
- Efficient Customer Response (ECR)
- Elastic Demand
- electromagnetic radiation
- Emergency Doctrine
- Employee Performance
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- Encryption
- End Item
- Endorsement Split Dollar
- Enhancement
- Environmental Sanitation
- erasure guarantee
- Error Mode Effects Analysis (EMEA)
- essential record
- Excess Return
- Experiment
- Exploding the Bill of Materials
- Explosion of Bill of Materials
F
- factory orders
- Failed Trade
- Fair Rental Value Coverage
- federal estate tax
- Federal Qualification
- Financial Position
- Fiscal Effort
- Fixed Production Overhead Variance
- Fixed Production Overhead Volume Efficiency Variance
- Fixed-rate Payment
- flat crush test
- Flat Income Bond
- Flat Tax
- Flexible Firm
- Floating Rate Loan
- foldover design
- Fortiori
- Freight-in
- Freight-Out
- Front End Specifications
- Functional Activity
- Functional Obsolescence
I
- ICSC-UBS Store Sales
- Immediate Annuity
- Improved Real Estate
- Income
- Independent Agent
- Indivisible Contract
- Infectious Waste
- Information Science
- Inland Revenue
- Innominate Contract
- Insider
- Insourcing
- Institute of International Bankers (IIB)
- Institutional Promotion
- insurance proceeds
- Insurer
- integrated services digital network
- Interference Time
- Intermediation
- internal rate of return
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- inventory to cost-of-goods sold (COGS) ratio
- Inventory Turnover
- Inverse Relationship
- Investment Grade Fund
- Involuntary Unemployment Insurance
- Irregular Demand
L
- Labor Force Participation Ratio
- LAN
- Land Use Regulation
- legacy asset
- Legend
- Level of Service
- Lien on Employment
- Life Cycle
- Like-For-Like Sales
- Line Balancing
- Lines Per Inch (LPI)
- Listing Agency
- Living Will
- Loan Receipt Agreement
- Logical Framework (LogFrame) Analysis
- Long-Run Aggregate Supply
- Long Term Care (LTC)
- Long Wave
- Loss on Sale of Computer, Equipment, Land, and Truck
M
- Magna Cum Laude
- Maintenance Burden
- management accounting
- market failure
- Marketplace
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Matching Rule
- Maximum Annual Debt Service
- Merchandising Business
- Mid-Point Convention
- Misappropriation
- Mixed Forecasting
- Mobilization Base
- Money Equation
- Mortgage Allonge
- Mortgage Short Sale
- Multi-Step Flow Theory
- Multiple Award
P
- Paris Interbank Offered Rate (PIBOR)
- Parity Clause
- Participation Certificate
- Payment Gateway
- Payment Mechanism
- payroll
- Penetrated Market
- Performance Guarantee
- Periodic Inventory Method
- Perpetual Succession
- Pervasive
- Physical Hazard
- Piggyback Mortgage
- Policies and Procedures
- Policy Reserve
- Policy Summary
- Polyspony
- Precious Metals
- Pressrun
- Price of Non Quality
- Price of Non Quality (PONQ)
- Primary Advertising
- Priming Loan
- Proactive Strategy
- Probate
- product platform
- Property Appraisal
- Property Management
- Prospective Reimbursement
- Public Record
R
- Rapid Prototype
- Real Return
- realization factor
- Reciprocal Advertising
- Recklessness
- Recompense
- Record Keeping Requirements
- Recovered Energy
- Redistribution of Wealth
- Reference Document
- Reference File
- Reference Mark
- Rehabilitation
- Relative Humidity
- Relevant Range
- Reporting Form
- Reputation Risk
- Resource Allocation and Multi Project Scheduling (RAMPS)
- Retired
- Retirement Contribution
- Revaluation Reserve
- Revenue Expenditure
- Richter Scale
- Risk-Adjusted Capital Ratio
- Rotable
S
- Sales to Cash Flow Ratio
- Scientific Management
- Secured Debenture
- security agreement
- Security Hole
- Self-evaluation
- Self-Service
- Service Bill
- Service Management
- Seven Principles of HACCP
- Single Source Procurement
- Sleeping Partner
- Snail Mail
- Social Capital
- Soft Landing
- Solution
- Special Cause Variation
- Special Peril Insurance
- Special Personal Property Form
- Specific Gravity
- Speculative Transaction
- Stability
- Stamp Tax
- Statewide Average Weekly Wage
- Statute
- Structural Frame
- Structured Interview
- Sub Trust
- System Analysis
T
- takeout commitment
- Taxable Period
- Terminal Learning Objective
- Test Report
- Testable
- The Advertising Club of New York
- the Nielsen Corporation
- Time Management
- Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
- Total Cost
- Touch Labor
- Trade Act of 1974?
- Tradeoff Analysis
- Transferred-in Cost
- Translation Exchange Gain or Loss
- transnational company
- Turnover Tax