Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• AVAL - a term meaning inseparable from the financial instrument. This gives a guarantee and is abstract...
  
  
• AVALIZOR - An institution or person who gives the aval.
  
  
• AVERAGE - A stock market average is a mathematical way of showing the price changes in representative s...
  
  
• AVERAGE (ACROSS-DAY) MEASURES - An estimation of price that uses the average or representative price of...
  
  
• AVERAGE ACCOUNTING RETURN - The average project earnings after taxes and depreciation divided by the av...
  
  
• AVERAGE AGE OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE - The weighted-average age of all the firm's outstanding invoices.
  
  
• AVERAGE AGE OF INVENTORY - calculated by the formula: 365 / inventory turnover.
  
  
• AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURN - A calculation that converts a cumulative total return into an annualized figure...
  
  
• AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN (STANDARDIZED) - An SEC standardized calculation that represents the averag...
  
  
• AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS - The annualized return for an investment, as measured over various interv...