Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RO - The two-character ISO 3166 country code for ROMANIA.
  
  
• ROA - A measure of a company's profitability; equal to a fiscal year's earnings divided by its total as...
  
  
• ROAD SHOW - A tour made by executives of a company that plans to go public, where they travel to variou...
  
  
• ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL - taking from one to give to another with no net gain
  
  
• ROBERT MORRIS ASSOCIATES - A national organization of bank commercial loan and credit officers.
  
  
• ROBUST - when a business is considered fully developed and healthy.
  
  
• ROBUST CURRENCY - A currency that is capable of withstanding external shocks (such as acute inflation o...
  
  
• ROCC - an acronym for Return On Committed Capital.
  
  
• ROCE - See: Return on capital employed
  
  
• ROCKET SCIENTIST - An employee of an investment firm (often having a Ph.D. in physics or mathematics) t...