Acid Test Ratio âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Current Assets - Inventory / Current Liabilities Agency Costs âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The costs that result from the principle-agent problem. Aggressive Assets âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Companies or securities with betas greater than 1. Annuity Due âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€An annuity that pays at the beginning of each period. Asset Manager âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€A professional who makes their living managing a portfolio of assets. Asset Pricing âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The process of valuing assets. Beta âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The measure of systematic risk determined by a regression line. Build-Up Method âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€A technique to estimate the cost of equity. Business Finance âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Another word for corporate finance. Capital Budgeting Analysis âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The process of deciding what assets to buy. Cash Management âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Managing the day-to-day finance operations of a firm. Compounding âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Figuring out the future value of money you will invest. Compounding Problem âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€When the periods, payments, and interest must be adjusted for nonannual time value of money problems. Corporate Finance âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The finance function within a business. One of the three main areas of finance. Corporate Governance âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The structure, rules, and regulations for owners and managers of a firm. Correlation âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€How related one asset's returns are to another asset's returns. Cost of Capital âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€How much it costs the firm (in percentage terms) to finance its operations through debt and/or equity. Costly Capital âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€All interest-bearing debt plus all equity. Coupon Rate âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Another name for coupon yield. Covenants âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Rules set forth in the bond indenture to protect bond investors. Cross-sectional Analysis âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€One of the three ways to use ratios by comparing the firm to other firms' ratios or industry averages. Current Market Value âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€What someone would pay right now for an asset. Current Yield âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€An approximation of the current yield that does not incorporate the time value of money = Annual Coupon/Current Market Value Discretionary Financing Needed (DFN) âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€The difference between the firm's total financing need (total projected assets) and the funding it has in place. Equals projected total assets - projected total liabilities - projected owners' equity.
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