Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• GAAP (GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES) - Rules and procedures generally accepted within the ac...
  
  
• GAAS - See GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS.
  
  
• GABLE END - The upper walls at either end of the roof.
  
  
• GABLE ROOF - An angled roof, triangular in shape.
  
  
• GADFLY - A nickname for a "professional" securityholder who owns stock in various companies, attends an...
  
  
• GAI - Guaranteed Annual Income.
  
  
• GAIJIN - Japanese term used to describe a non-Japanese investor in Japan (outside person). A more polit...
  
  
• GAIN - is: a. the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating; b. rise in r...
  
  
• GAINER - Stocks that increase in value over the course of the trading day are described as gainers or a...
  
  
• GAINS TRADING - The practice of purchasing securities and then selling those that subsequently apprecia...