Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• HIRE PURCHASE - The right to purchase an asset by the user of the asset according to a pre-agreed metho...
  
  
• HIRING FREEZE - A temporary restriction on hiring in order to achieve financial savings.
  
  
• HISTOGRAM - A table or bar chart displaying a probability distribution. All of the probabilities in the...
  
  
• HISTORIC DISTRICT - A classification (whether under zoning, heritage or other authority) of a specific ...
  
  
• HISTORIC PRESERVATION - A movement to protect buildings with historic value from destruction or extensi...
  
  
• HISTORIC STRUCTURE - A building listed in the National Register of Historic Places and certified as his...
  
  
• HISTORIC VOLATILITY - How much contract price has fluctuated over a period of time in the past; usually...
  
  
• HISTORICAL COST - A term describing the original cost of a project, stated in dollars of the time in wh...
  
  
• HISTORICAL COST ACCOUNTING - an accounting principle requiring all financial statement items to be base...
  
  
• HISTORICAL COST ACCOUNTING CONVENTION - An accounting technique that values an asset for balance sheet ...