Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• FRICTION COSTS - Costs, both implied and direct, associated with a transaction. Such costs include time...
  
  
• FRICTIONAL COST - The difference between an index fund return and the index it represents. The typicall...
  
  
• FRICTIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT - Short-term joblessness associated with mobility. A person who leaves a job to...
  
  
• FRICTIONLESS MARKET - Ideal trading environment that imposes no costs or restraints on transactions.
  
  
• FRICTIONS - The "stickiness" involved in making transactions; the total process including time, effort,...
  
  
• FRIENDLY MERGER - A business combination that the management of both firms believes will be beneficial ...
  
  
• FRIENDLY MERGERS - Mergers and acquisitions through the negotiations, willingness and consent of the ac...
  
  
• FRIENDLY TAKEOVER - consists of a straight buyout of a company, and happens all the time. The sharehold...
  
  
• FRIENDS AND FAMILY FINANCING - capital provided by the friends and family of founders of an early-stage...
  
  
• FRINGE BENEFIT - Employee compensation other than your wages, tips and salaries, such as health insuran...