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Finance: What is Common Stock?
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What is common stock? Ownership. Common shareholders own a pro rata slice of the pie. They elect the board of directors by vote. Some companies hav...

Finance: What is Efficient Markets Theory?
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What is the Efficient Markets Theory? The Efficient Markets Theory says that stocks trade at their fair value all of the time, assuming all informa...

Finance: What is Amortization?
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What is amortization? Amortization tracks the decline in value of a contract or service, usually paid for in advance. You received $10,000 in advan...

Finance: How Do You Become Incorporated?
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How do you become incorporated? Go to Legal Zoom. Pay $150, file with the state of Delaware or whoever each year. Pay another $150. Most file as LL...

TSA Agent
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So... what's a TSA worker, and what do they do? Oh, we thought maybe you knew. Okay, okay... so TSA (or Transportation Security Administration) wor...

Finance: How Do Some Accountants "Cook the Books"?
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How do some accountants “cook the books”? Cooking the books refers to accountants making company’s financials look much better than they are....

Finance: What are Financial Projections?
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Financial projections are calculations for profit and loss after factoring in expenses, gross revenues, cash flow, debt, and a host of pertinent fi...

Finance: How do you assess the cost of equity?
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The cost of equity is essentially how much the total returns, i.e. capital appreciation plus any dividends, are needed to keep shareholders from se...

Finance: What are the Major Classes of Bonds?
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What are the Major Classes of Bonds? Insofar as US dollar denominated bonds go, the primary classes of bonds are: 1) US Treasury Bonds; 2) US Treas...

Finance: What is Cash on Delivery (COD)?
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What is Cash on Delivery (COD)? In transactions where buyer and seller are not physically in the same place, a Cash on Delivery transaction is one...

Finance: What is Characteristic Line?
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What is Characteristic Line? Technical analysts’ stock in trade are their charts, which crunch the numerical data from past trading dates to asse...

Finance: What Does it Mean to Churn an Account?
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What Does it Mean to Churn an Account? While the occurrence now is much lower than in the past, brokers who were given limited trading discretion i...

Finance: What Does "Capital Intensive" Mean?
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What Does "Capital Intensive" Mean? “Capital Intensive” refers to those industries that require a high level of capital investment before busin...

Finance: What is the Federal Funds Rate?
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What is the Federal Funds Rate? The federal funds rate is the interest rate used for overnight lending between banks. The amount banks are able to...

Finance: What is the Investment Company Act of 1940?
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The Investment Company Act of 1940 regulated and ensured fair dealings in the mutual fund industry.

Finance: What is Interest Only Mortgage?
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An interest-only mortgage is a mortgage on which you only pay the rent on money borrowed, rather than on the principal.

Finance: What is a Living Trust?
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A regular trust is a legal vehicle into which assets are placed so that it is legally clear who is to receive what. A living trust is a established...