BIG BATH
Manipulating a company's income statement to make poor results more poor. It is often implemented in a bad year. New CEOs use the big bath so they can blame the company's poor performance on the previous CEO and take credit for the next year's improvements.
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Quality Control Chart
A graphic that shows if sampled products are meeting their intended specifications and, if not, the degree by which they vary from those specificat ...
Value Chain
Value Chain is a high-level model depicting the process of how a particular business obtains raw materials and adds value to these materials by und ...
Stepwise Regression
Incremental, iterative construction of a regression model encompassing selecting independent variables automatically. This can be attained either b ...
Topside
Upper portion of an oil platform holding the drilling rig, production plant, and accommodation block or lodging. Seen above the water line, it pert ...
Conditional Probability
Probability of an event granted that another has occurred. It is computed by multiplying the probability of the previous event by the recent probab ...
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Ethical Investing: Environmentally-Conscious Investing
Environmentalist or not, as an investor, you care so much about your surroundings. Hence, you invest in companies that can reduce their negative im ...
An Introduction to Student Loans
A college education is one of the most essential investment in a person’s life. Unfortunately, in this time and age, it has also become one o ...
Digesting Financial Statements: Working Capital
Analysts and investors look at the working capital and its trends to measure a company’s financial performance. This metric determines a busi ...
Ethical Investing: Its Advantages and Disadvantages
Believe it or not, ethical investing comprises a huge emotional component. Investors are human; therefore, they let emotions drive their decisions. ...
Defining Inflation
Inflation is the sustained increase in the overall level of products and services in an economy over a particular time period. Expressed as percent ...
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| 09:00 | Unemployment Rate | Jun | |
| 10:30 | Construction PMI | Jun | |
| 10:30 | Sentix Investor Confidence | Jul | |
| 11:00 | PPI | May | |
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