Tag: measures
Value At Risk (VaR)
What is 'Value At Risk - VaR' Value at risk (VaR) is a statistical technique used to measure and quantify the level...
Value Added
What is 'Value Added' Value-added describes the enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Value-added...
Free Cash Flow
DefinitionIn corporate finance, free cash flow or free cash flow to firm is a way of looking at a business's cash flow to see...
Wealth Added Index (WAI)
What is 'Wealth Added Index - WAI' A metric designed by Stern Stewart & Co consulting firm that attempts to measure wealth...
Gamma Neutral
What is 'Gamma Neutral' A method of managing risk in options trading by establishing an asset portfolio whose delta rate of change...
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
What is the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)?
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a metric that was developed in the 1990s as an alternative to...
Gearing
What is 'Gearing' Gearing refers to the level of a company’s debt related to its equity capital, usually expressed in percentage form....
General Provisions
What are 'General Provisions'
General provisions are balance sheet items representing funds set aside by a company as assets to pay for anticipated future losses....
Generational Accounting
DefinitionGenerational accounting is a method of measuring the fiscal burdens facing today's and tomorrow's children. Laurence Kotlikoff's individual and co-authored work on the relativity...
Tainted Alpha
What is 'Tainted Alpha' An alpha return that cannot be attributed solely to the money manager due to consequential beta exposure. Tainted...