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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Poison Pill
Corporations use this strategy to discourage aggressive takeovers. With a poison pill, the target company tries to make its stock less attractive t ...
Supply
Aggregate amount of a product or service available to consumers. Supply is the demand for a product or service at a set price. It may refer to the ...
KOF Economic Barometer
A composite indicator, which is published monthly, to give an estimate GDP growth rate of the Swiss economy compared with the year-earlier quarter. ...
Adaptive Expectations Hypothesis
An assumption stating that the investment decisions of individuals are based on the direction of recent historical data, past inflation rates as an ...
EAGLES
Acronym introduced by Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in 2010 denoting the emerging and growth-leading economies of Egypt, Kore ...
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Digesting Financial Statements: Introduction
Financial statements open a window how healthy a company is (in terms of finances). This document presents the financial activities of a person or ...
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 ...
Principles of Trading: Charting
Where can you see market movements? Charts. Thanks to technology, traders can view as many market information as they can in one go. But not all ch ...
Health Savings Account: Introduction
In essence, health savings account shoulders any health- and medical-related expenses that are not included in the high-deductible health plan. Pay ...
Ethical Investing: Activism and Advocacy of Shareholders
Activist investors are not contented with just purchasing stocks and supporting its actions or decisions. They want to change the norms of targeted ...
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