- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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A single centralized account into which funds collected at regional locations (lockboxes) are transferred.
Industry:Financial services
Net flow of goods, services, and unilateral transactions (gifts) between countries.
Industry:Financial services
The degree to which the present asset price accurately reflects current information in the market place. See: Efficient market hypothesis.
Industry:Financial services
A small number of large banks a firm contracts with to periodically collect the firm's deposit balances from a group of smaller banks.
Industry:Financial services
The differnece between the nation's total exports of goods, services and transfer and its total imports of them. Current account balance calculations exclude transactions in financial assets and liabilities.
Industry:Financial services
The view that issuing debt is generally valuable, but that the firm's optimal choice of capital structure involves various other views of capital structure (net corporate/personal tax, agency cost, bankruptcy cost, and pecking order), that result from considerations of asymmetric information, asymmetric taxes, and transaction costs.
Industry:Financial services
Movement of cash from different lockbox locations into a single concentration account from which disbursements and investments are made.
Industry:Financial services
Value of cash, accounts receivable, inventories, marketable securities and other assets that could be converted to cash in less than 1 year.
Industry:Financial services
Placing limits on the amount of new investment undertaken by a firm, either by using a higher cost of capital, or by setting a maximum on the entire capital budget or parts of it.
Industry:Financial services
The per-share or per-bond compensation of a selling group for participating in a corporate underwriting.
Industry:Financial services
