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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Return On Assets - ROA
ROA measures the profit a company generates as percentage of its total assets’ value.
Channel Stuffing
Deceptive business practice in which a firm inflates its sales and earnings futures by sending more inventory to retailers than it can sell to the ...
Actuarial Cost Method
A method employed by actuaries for the calculation of the periodic amount that a company has to pay for the coverage of the pension expenses. The t ...
Absolute Priority
It is a rule that says the order of payment when a company liquidates its asset—creditors first before the shareholders. This rule is commonl ...
Gadfly
Colloquial term for an investor criticizing a firm’s executives at the annual shareholders meeting. This shareholder outlines certain issues ...
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