Tag: goods
Back-To-Back Letters Of Credit
What are 'Back-To-Back Letters Of Credit' Back-to-back letters of credit consist of two letters of credit (LCs) used together to finance a...
Backflush Costing
What is 'Backflush Costing' Backflush costing is a product costing system generally used in a just-in-time inventory environment. Backflush costing delays the...
Balance Of Trade (BOT)
What is 'Balance Of Trade - BOT' The balance of trade (BOT) is the difference between a country's imports and its exports...
Call Market
What is a 'Call Market' A call market is a type of market in which each transaction takes place at predetermined intervals...
Call Price
What is a 'Call Price' A call price is the price at which a bond or a preferred stock can be redeemed...
Balance Of Payments (BOP)
What is the Balance of Payments (BOP)?
The balance of payments (BOP) is an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the...
Back-to-Back Commitment
What is 'Back-to-Back Commitment' A commitment to make a second take-out loan that piggybacks another loan. With a back-to-back commitment, once the...
Bailment
What is 'Bailment' The contractual transfer of possession of assets or property for a specific objective. In bailment, the deliverer of the...
CPI – Consumer Price Index
The consumer price index (CPI) is metric that denotes prices of goods and services including food items, transportation, medical care, and others used by...
Call Auction
What is 'Call Auction' Where participants buy or sell units of a good. At a call auction, participants place orders to buy...