DISCRETIONARY EXPENSE
A discretionary expense is a cost which is not essential for the operation of a home or a business. For example, a business may allow employees to charge certain meal and entertainment costs to the company in order to promote goodwill with employees. In the home, discretionary expenses are most often defined as things which are "wants" rather than "needs".
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Calamity Call
A call feature of a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO) mainly intended to lessen the reinvestment risk of the issuer. If the cash flow produc ...
Tax Expense
Amount of tax owed in a specific time period, as seen in the income statement. It is computed by multiplying the right tax rate of an individual or ...
Carried Interest
Portion of any profits compensating the general partners of private companies and hedge funds even without contributing to initial funds. It aims t ...
Insider Buying
Purchasing shares of stock in a company by an individual who works in that company. This is different from insider trading because the latter perta ...
AUD
The abbreviation for the Australian dollar on the currency market.
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