DEFERRED ACQUISITION COSTS
Typically used in the insurance industry, this is when a company defers the sales costs that are associated with acquiring a new customer over the term of the insurance contract. Most of the sales costs arise from referral commissions to external distributors and brokers.
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VPP
Volumetric Production Payment (VPP) is a structured investment in which the owner of an oil and gas interest is selling a specific volume productio ...
Value Line Index
Value Line Index refers to a stock index that consists of about 1,675 companies from the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, ...
eXtensible Business Reporting Language - XBRL
Standard developed to improve the method financial data is conveyed, making exchanging of business information easier. It is a type of XML, a speci ...
Perfect Competition
A market structure where the following five standards are met:
All firms sell an same product;
All firms are price tak ...
Cardboard Box Index
Index measuring industrial production by using the number of cardboard boxes to evaluate purchases of consumer goods. Acts as an industrial indicat ...
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