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Value Deflation
What is value deflation and how does it work
Value deflation occurs when the prices of goods and services decrease. This can happen when there...
Four Percent Rule
The four percent rule, in the simplest of terms, and helps in determining the amount of funds that a retired person should withdraw from...
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...
How to Account For Goodwill
When determining how much goodwill a company possesses, there are several factors that must be considered. These factors include the measurement of goodwill, the...
Correlation
Financial Correlation basically measures the relationship between the changes occurring in two or more variables at the same time. Correlation plays a major role...
Deflation
Deflation is the opposite of the term inflation; deflation is a well-known economic term that is used to describe a period in which the...
Dangling Debit
What is 'Dangling Debit' A debit entry with no offsetting credit entry. Dangling debit occurs when a company purchases goodwill or services...
Kurtosis
DefinitionIn probability theory and statistics, kurtosis is a measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. In a similar...
Unconventional Cash Flow
What is an ‘Unconventional Cash Flow'
A series of inward and outward cash flows over time in which there is more than one change in...
Earnings Surprise
DefinitionAn earnings surprise, or unexpected earnings, in accounting, is the difference between the reported earnings and the expected earnings of an entity. Measures of...