Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• AVERAGE COST METHOD - using a weighted average cost for items in inventory rather than actual cost for ...
  
  
• AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL - A firm's required payout to bondholders and stockholders expressed as a perce...
  
  
• AVERAGE DAILY BALANCE - The interest you owe on your credit card or earn on a saving account may be cal...
  
  
• AVERAGE DAILY FLOAT - average ledger balance minus average collected balance
  
  
• AVERAGE DAILY SHARE VOLUME - The number of shares traded per day, averaged over a period of time, usual...
  
  
• AVERAGE DIRECTIONAL MOVEMENT INDEX (ADX) - Indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder to measure market tr...
  
  
• AVERAGE DISCOUNT RATE - Purchasers tender their competitive bids on a discount rate basis. The weighted...
  
  
• AVERAGE DOWN - A strategy used by investors to reduce the average cost of shares, in which the investor...
  
  
• AVERAGE DOWNTIME - Expressed in months, the amount of time expected between the expiration of a lease a...
  
  
• AVERAGE EQUITY - A customer's average daily balance in a trading account at a brokerage firm.