FEDERAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS ACT - FICA
An act that requires a deduction from paychecks and income that goes to the Social Security program and Medicare. Employees and employers are both responsible for sharing FICA payments.
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Electronic storage of information in a business or corporation. It should be secure, reliable and easy to retrieve and manage. It originated in 198 ...
One-Tailed Test
A statistical test where the critical area of a circulation is one-sided so that it is either less than or greater than a specific value, but not b ...
Less-than-Truckload
A shipping service that carries small loads of freight, weight between partial and full truckload. The service is being offered by many large and n ...
Original Cost
It simply refers to the total cost associated in buying an asset.
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