Financial Dictionary
This A to Z guide of economic and financial terms will tell you everything you need to know about banking.
Every term has been verified by our experts in investing, accounts for individuals and businesses, salary accounts, mortgages, payment cards and other financial products, and they are all explained in clear, concise language to help you understand them.
We have included the most common concepts that are widely used in digital and printed documents about financial products, such as contracts, clauses, terms and conditions, appendices, etc.
A
Amortization
Accredited Investor
Angel Investors
Asset Management
Annual Report
Assets Under Management (AUM)
Asset
Amazon Bedrock
Automated Clearing House
AutoGPT
Average Trade Price
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Intelligence
Audit
B
Black Swan Event
Bernie Madoff
Bank Statement
Business Day
Bid and Ask
Baby Boomer
Bonds
Big Four Accounting Firms
Beta
Break-Even Point
Bank Run
Business Ethics
Business Logistics
Bollinger Bands
C
Correlation Coefficient
Confidence Interval
Cryptocurrency
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)
C-Suite
Cash Flow
Cost Per Thousand (CPM)
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Capital
Cost Cutting
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Cup and Handle Pattern
Conservatorship
Carbon Credits
Corporation
Cash-on-Cash Return
Capitalism
Check
Commodities
Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPGs)
Cloud Computing
D
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
Debt-Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR)
Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
Demand Deposit
Demographics
Dealer
Digital Wallet
Depreciation
Due Diligence
Disbursement
Dividends Per Share
Divest
Deep Learning
E
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Entrepreneur
Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance
Expatriate (Expat)
Equity
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Exit Strategy
Escrow
Expected Value
Ex Works (EXW)
Enron
F
Fiscal Quarter
Fortune 100
Financial Securities
Financial Institution
Fixed Income
First In, First Out (FIFO)
Fast Fashion
Fibonacci Retracement
Fiscal Policy
Forex Trading Robot
Federal Reserve
FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee)
Future Value
First World Countries
Factors of Production
Forward P/E
Foreclosure
G
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
General Ledger
Golden Cross
Gross Expense Ratio
Gross Profit Margin
Gap Analysis
Growth at a Reasonable Price (GARP)
H
Hyperinflation
High Net-Worth Individual (HNWI)
Homeowners Association (HOA) Fee
Human Capital
Homestead Exemption
I
International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
Interest Rate
Insider Trading
Invisible Hand
Implied Volatility (IV)
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Iron Condor
Income Statement
K
Kaizen Process
L
Letter of Intent (LOI)
Liability
Last Will and Testament
Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS)
Liquidity Ratios
Leverage Ratio
Loan-to-Value (LTV) Ratio
Lease
Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
Law of Large Numbers
Limited Partnership
M
Modified Adjusted Gross Income
Merchant Banking
Money Laundering
Marketing
Monte Carlo Simulation
Moving Average Convergence or Divergence (MACD)
Marginal Cost
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Margin Call
Marketing Strategy
Mark to Market (MTM)
Monopolistic Competition
Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)
Money Market Fund
Machine Learning
N
Net Income
Network Marketing
Net Expense Ratio
O
Over-the-Counter (OTC)
Operating Lease
P
P/E Ratio
Public Relations (PR)
P-Value
Prisoner's Dilemma
Point-of-Sale System
Pension
Percent Change
Price Elasticity of Demand
Present Value (PV)
Phillips Curve
Property Management
Product Life Cycle
Production Possibility Frontier (PFF)
Pattern Day Trader
Per Stirpes
Positive Feedback Loop
Pricing Power
Perfect Competition
Q
Quantitative Easing
R
Returns
Racketeering
Retained Earnings
Real Property
Revenue
Relative Strength Index (RSI) Indicator
Repurchase Agreement (RePo)
Refinancing
Right of First Refusal (ROFR)
Registered Investment Advisor
Rent to Own
S
Soft Skills
SWOT Analysis
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Swing Trading
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
Stakeholders
Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME)
Sustainability
Securities
Stipend
Shrinkflation
Sheriff's Sale
Social Security Number (SSN)
Law of Supply and Demand
Series 7
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Savings Account
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Strike Price
Step-Up Basis
Social Media
Spiffy Pop
Shadow Trading
Sign-On Bonus
T
Tenancy in Common
Target Market
Title Loan
Tax Identification Number (TIN)
Trailing 12 Months (TTM)
Trustee
Theta
Taxable Income
U
Underwriter
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Unicorn Company
V
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
Value-Added Tax
Virtual Assistant
Value Trap
Vertically Integrated
W
W-2
White-Label Product
Withholding Allowance
Y
Yield to Maturity (YTM)
Yield Curve
Z
Zero-Sum Game