Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• COST-EFFECTIVE - economical in terms of tangible benefits produced by money spent.
  
  
• COST-OF-CARRY MARKET - Applies to derivative products. Futures contracts trade in a "cost-of-carry mark...
  
  
• COST-OF-FUNDS INDEX - A yield index based upon the cost of funds to savings & loan institutions in the ...
  
  
• COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT (COLA) - COLAs are increases in wages, Social Security, and some pension bene...
  
  
• COST-OF-LIVING LEASE - is a lease where yearly increases are tied to the cost of living index.
  
  
• COST-OF-SALE PERCENTAGE - An estimate of the costs to sell an investment representing brokerage commiss...
  
  
• COST-PLUS - is determining payment based on the actual cost of production or service provisioning plus ...
  
  
• COST-PLUS CONTRACT - a construction contract in which the contract price is equal to the cost of constr...
  
  
• COST-PUSH INFLATION - Inflation caused by rising prices, usually from increased raw material or labor c...
  
  
• COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS (CVPA) - examines the behavior of total revenue, total costs and profit as ...