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Make To Assemble (MTA)
What is 'Make To Assemble - MTA' A manufacturing production strategy where a company stocks the basic components of a product based...
Man-Year
What is 'Man-Year' A method of describing the amount of work done by an individual throughout the entire year. The man-year takes...
Absolute Physical Life
What is 'Absolute Physical Life' The length of time that it takes for an asset takes to become fully depreciated, at which...
Accelerated Option
What is 'Accelerated Option' This term refers to an option in an insurance contract, usually in the form of a rider, that...
Accelerated Depreciation
DefinitionAccelerated depreciation refers to any one of several methods by which a company, for 'financial accounting' or tax purposes, depreciates a fixed asset in...
Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS)
What is 'Accelerated Cost Recovery System - ACRS' A system of depreciation introduced by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. ACRS...
Absolute Return
What is 'Absolute Return'
Absolute return is the return that an asset achieves over a certain period of time. This measure looks at the appreciation...
Abandoned Property
What is 'Abandoned Property' Assets such as cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, uncashed checks, land, life insurance policies and the contents of...
Absolute Value
What is an 'Absolute Value' An absolute value is a business valuation method that uses discounted cash flow analysis to determine a...
Ralph Wanger
What is 'Ralph Wanger' The former chief portfolio manager for the Acorn Fund who founded Wanger Asset Management. Ralph Wanger also gained...