Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

• AU - The two-character ISO 3166 country code for AUSTRALIA.
  
  
• AUCTION - Public sale of a property to the highest bidder. The purchaser must immediately sign a bindin...
  
  
• AUCTION MARKET - Auction market trading, also known as open outcry, is the way the major stock and comm...
  
  
• AUCTION MARKET PREFERRED STOCK (AMPS) - A type of Dutch Auction Preferred Stock (A Merrill Lynch produc...
  
  
• AUCTION MARKETS - Markets in which the prevailing price is determined through the free interaction of p...
  
  
• AUCTION PRICING - pricing method in which buyers bid against each other and the highest bidder buys the...
  
  
• AUCTION RATE PREFERRED STOCK (ARPS) - Floating rate preferred stock, whose dividend is adjusted every s...
  
  
• AUCTIONEER - A professional (real estate broker or auctioneer, depending on local laws) who sells prope...
  
  
• AUD - The ISO 4217 currency code for Australian Dollar currency.
  
  
• AUDIT - the inspection of the accounting records and procedures of a business, government unit, or othe...