Tag: Finance Legal Dictionary

  • Risk Management

    Financial Definition of Risk Management Meaning of Risk Management The process of identifying and evaluating risks and selecting and managing techniques to adapt to risk exposures. Related Entries of Risk […]

  • Simulation

    Financial Definition of Simple Prospect Meaning of Simple Prospect An investment opportunity where a certain initial wealth is placed at risk and only two outcomes are possible. Related Entries of Simple […]

  • Sole Proprietorship

    Sole Proprietorship

    A business owned by a single individual. The sole proprietorship pays no corporate income tax but has unlimited liability for business debts and obligations….

  • Reserve Currency

    A foreign currency held by a central bank or monetary authority for the purposes of exchange intervention and the settlement of inter-governmental claims….

  • Spreadsheet

    A computer program that organizes numerical data into rows and columns on a terminal screen, for calculating and making adjustments based on new data….

  • Stock

    Stock

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Stock Meaning of Stock A fund, capital ; the money or goods employed in trade ; the property which a merchant , a tradesman or a company has invested in any business , including merchandise , money and […]

  • Stock

    Stock

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Stock Meaning of Stock A fund, capital ; the money or goods employed in trade ; the property which a merchant , a tradesman or a company has invested in any business , including merchandise , money and […]

  • Revaluation

    An increase in the foreign exchange value of a currency that is pegged to other currencies or gold….

  • Seniority

    Financial Definition of Seniority Meaning of Seniority The order of repayment. In the event of bankruptcy, senior debt must be repaid before subordinated debt is repaid. Related Entries of Seniority in the […]

  • Single-Premium Deferred Annuity

    An insurance policy bought by the sponsor of a pension plan for a single premium. In return, the insurance company agrees to make lifelong payments to the employee (the policyholder) when that employee retires….

  • Receiver

    A person duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to collect and receive pending the action in which he is so appointed the rents, issues and profits of land or the produce of personal estate or other things in question , which it does not seem reasonable to the […]

  • Risk

    Hazard , danger , peril , exposure to loss, injury , disadvantage or destruction, and comprises all elements of danger. Knox Jewelry Co. Inc. v Cincinnati Ins. Co., 203 S.E.2d 739, 130 Ga.App. 519. In insurance law, it denotes that specified contingency or peril contemplated in the […]

  • Retained Earnings

    Accounting earnings that are retained by the firm for reinvestment in its operations; earnings that are not paid out as dividends….

  • Series

    Financial Definition of Series Meaning of Series Options: All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Stocks: shares which have common characteristics, such as rights to […]

  • Series

    Financial Definition of Series Meaning of Series Options: All option contracts of the same class that also have the same unit of trade, expiration date, and exercise price. Stocks: shares which have common characteristics, such as rights to […]