Finance Reference

DefinitionShares outstanding are all the shares of a corporation or financial asset that have been authorized, issued and purchased by investors and are held...

What is 'Target Cash Balance' The ideal amount of cash that a company wishes to hold in reserve at any given point...

Definition A naked trust is a trust in which the beneficiary has a right to both income and capital and has the ability to request...

What is an 'Underinvestment Problem' When a corporation refuses to invest in low-risk assets in order to increase its wealth at the expense of debt...

What is 'Natural Gas Storage Indicator - EIA Report' The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) weekly estimate of working natural gas volumes...

The amount of money that a company generates during a specific time period is called as ‘earnings’. This amount of money, to put it...

Definition Keiretsu is a group of companies that are intertwined in terms of business relationships and stock ownership. An example of an informal business group...

What is depreciation and how does it work Depreciation is an accounting method used to spread the cost of a long-term asset over its useful...

DefinitionA credit card is a payment card issued to users to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on...

The grouping together of financial assets like cash equivalents, bonds, stocks and their counterparts whether they are closed fund or exchange related is known...