HARD SKILLS
These are skills that may be taught, defined, and measured. Hard skills are the opposite of soft skills, which are less tangible and harder to measure. Hard skills include job skills like typing, reading and writing, math, and the ability to use software programs; soft skills are personality-driven skills such as getting along with other people, and etiquette.
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Dow Theory
Theory stipulating the market is in an upward trend if one of its averages accelerates above a previous important high, it is followed by the same ...
Continuity of Business Enterprise Doctrine
Taxation principle, applicable to mergers and acquisitions, stating the acquiring company must either carry on the target firm’s usual busine ...
Refinance Wave
Refinance wave is a period in which a huge number of borrowers refinance mortgages in answer to changes in interest rates. When short-term interest ...
Backup Withholding
Tax which is levied on the investment income, at a fixed tax rate, as the investor pulls it out. Backup withholding aids in ensuring that the gover ...
Activity-Based Budgeting - ABB
A budgeting method wherein the activities that are accumulating costs in the organization's functional areas are recorded and its relationship ...
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Digesting Financial Statements: Long-Lasting Assets
Long-lived assets, also known as non-current assets, is any asset a company expects to keep for at least one year. Such assets are expected to boos ...
Principles of Trading: Introduction
Trading is an active participation in the financial markets. Those who partake in buy-and-hold investing are called traders. Also called market pla ...
Principles of Trading: Risk Management
It is imperative for traders to master risk management, which includes knowing how much you could lose per trade or over time and evaluating the pe ...
Ethical Investing: Looking Into Ethical Investments
For studying socially responsible investments, the key word is ethics, of course.
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Introduction to Inflation
I asked my grandparents about the cost of living during World War II. They told me people during that period could buy a house for $5,000, a car fo ...
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| 16:00 | NAHB Housing Market Index | Jul | |
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| 01:30 | National CPI ex Fresh Food | Jun | |
| 01:30 | National CPI ex fresh food & energy | Jun | |
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| 08:00 | Trade Balance | Jun | |
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| 10:00 | Current Account (sa) | May |
