Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DISCOUNTING - To sell at a reduced value; the difference between face value and cash value. Some compan...
  
  
• DISCOUNTING THE NEWS - An adjustment of a stock's price as speculators bid the price up or down in anti...
  
  
• DISCREPANCY - a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions. In import / export, it is s...
  
  
• DISCRETE COMPOUNDING - Compounding the time value of money for separate time intervals.
  
  
• DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLE - A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual p...
  
  
• DISCRETE VARIABLE - Variable like 1, 2, 3. Bond ratings are examples of discrete classifications.
  
  
• DISCRETION - Freedom given to the floor broker by an investor to use his judgment regarding the executi...
  
  
• DISCRETIONARY - Is an order which given a client gives to the broker. The discretion is in terms of pri...
  
  
• DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT - An arrangement by which the holder of an account gives written power of attorne...
  
  
• DISCRETIONARY ACCRUAL - a non-mandatory expense/asset that is recorded within the accounting system tha...