Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• OPINION SHOPPING - Attempts by a corporation to attain reporting objectives by following questionable a...
  
  
• OPM - Stands for "other people's money," which refers to borrowed funds used to increase the return on ...
  
  
• OPORTO - Portugal's derivatives exchange (Bolsa de Derivados do Oporto) trading futures on the ten-year...
  
  
• OPPORTUNISM - a condition of self-interest seeking with guile whereby one party has information that th...
  
  
• OPPORTUNISTIC - A phrase generally used by advisers and managers to describe investments in underperfor...
  
  
• OPPORTUNISTIC BEHAVIOUR - occurs where one party takes advantage of his superior knowledge, in order to...
  
  
• OPPORTUNITY COST - widely used in business planning in evaluating capital investment. A company measure...
  
  
• OPPORTUNITY COST OF CAPITAL - The expected return that is foregone by investing in a project rather tha...
  
  
• OPPORTUNITY COST OF REVENUE (OCOR) - where revenue/money held now may be invested to produce more money...
  
  
• OPPORTUNITY COSTS - The difference in the actual performance of a particular investment and some other ...