CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Non-financial performance of a publicly traded company in the areas of social responsibility, sustainability, and environmental performance, among others. It states a company must not only focus on its financial performance, but also on its employees, shareholders, customers, and the local community members.
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Direct Repurchase
It is the buying of share in a publicly-traded company by the company itself. It reduces the number of shares outstanding, thereby inflating (posit ...
Adjusted Present Value - APV
A business NPV or Net Present Value in case it is financed exclusively by equity along with any financing advantage (the supplementary effects of d ...
Coskewness
Statistical measure used in computing the symmetry of a variable’s probability distribution relative to another variable. Given that all thin ...
Rule Of 78
A method of allocating the interest charge on a loan across its payment periods. Under the Rule of 78, periods are weighted by comparing their nume ...
Gilts
Bonds issued by the British government considered low risk. It is equivalent to US Treasury securities. The term stemmed from the original British ...
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