Financial Dictionary

This A to Z guide of economic and financial terms will tell you everything you need to know about banking.

Every term has been verified by our experts in investing, accounts for individuals and businesses, salary accounts, mortgages, payment cards and other financial products, and they are all explained in clear, concise language to help you understand them.

We have included the most common concepts that are widely used in digital and printed documents about financial products, such as contracts, clauses, terms and conditions, appendices, etc.

A

Amortization

Accredited Investor

Angel Investors

Asset Management

Annual Report

Assets Under Management (AUM)

Asset

Amazon Bedrock

Automated Clearing House

AutoGPT

Average Trade Price

Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Intelligence

Audit

B

Black Swan Event

Bernie Madoff

Bank Statement

Business Day

Bid and Ask

Baby Boomer

Bonds

Big Four Accounting Firms

Beta

Break-Even Point

Bank Run

Business Ethics

Business Logistics

Bollinger Bands

C

Correlation Coefficient

Confidence Interval

Cryptocurrency

CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)

C-Suite

Cash Flow

Cost Per Thousand (CPM)

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Capital

Cost Cutting

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Cup and Handle Pattern

Conservatorship

Carbon Credits

Corporation

Cash-on-Cash Return

Capitalism

Check

Commodities

Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPGs)

Cloud Computing

D

Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Debt-Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR)

Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)

Demand Deposit

Demographics

Dealer

Digital Wallet

Depreciation

Due Diligence

Disbursement

Dividends Per Share

Divest

Deep Learning

E

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

Entrepreneur

Errors and Omissions (E&O) Insurance

Expatriate (Expat)

Equity

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Exit Strategy

Escrow

Expected Value

Ex Works (EXW)

Enron

F

Fiscal Quarter

Fortune 100

Financial Securities

Financial Institution

Fixed Income

First In, First Out (FIFO)

Fast Fashion

Fibonacci Retracement

Fiscal Policy

Forex Trading Robot

Federal Reserve

FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee)

Future Value

First World Countries

Factors of Production

Forward P/E

Foreclosure

G

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

General Ledger

Golden Cross

Gross Expense Ratio

Gross Profit Margin

Gap Analysis

Growth at a Reasonable Price (GARP)

H

Hyperinflation

High Net-Worth Individual (HNWI)

Homeowners Association (HOA) Fee

Human Capital

Homestead Exemption

I

International Bank Account Number (IBAN)

Interest Rate

Insider Trading

Invisible Hand

Implied Volatility (IV)

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Iron Condor

Income Statement

K

Kaizen Process

L

Letter of Intent (LOI)

Liability

Last Will and Testament

Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS)

Liquidity Ratios

Leverage Ratio

Loan-to-Value (LTV) Ratio

Lease

Leveraged Buyout (LBO)

Law of Large Numbers

Limited Partnership

M

Modified Adjusted Gross Income

Merchant Banking

Money Laundering

Marketing

Monte Carlo Simulation

Moving Average Convergence or Divergence (MACD)

Marginal Cost

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

Margin Call

Marketing Strategy

Mark to Market (MTM)

Monopolistic Competition

Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)

Money Market Fund

Machine Learning

N

Net Income

Network Marketing

Net Expense Ratio

O

Over-the-Counter (OTC)

Operating Lease

P

P/E Ratio

Public Relations (PR)

P-Value

Prisoner's Dilemma

Point-of-Sale System

Pension

Percent Change

Price Elasticity of Demand

Present Value (PV)

Phillips Curve

Property Management

Product Life Cycle

Production Possibility Frontier (PFF)

Pattern Day Trader

Per Stirpes

Positive Feedback Loop

Pricing Power

Perfect Competition

Q

Quantitative Easing

R

Returns

Racketeering

Retained Earnings

Real Property

Revenue

Relative Strength Index (RSI) Indicator

Repurchase Agreement (RePo)

Refinancing

Right of First Refusal (ROFR)

Registered Investment Advisor

Rent to Own

S

Soft Skills

SWOT Analysis

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Swing Trading

Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

Stakeholders

Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME)

Sustainability

Securities

Stipend

Shrinkflation

Sheriff's Sale

Social Security Number (SSN)

Law of Supply and Demand

Series 7

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

Savings Account

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Strike Price

Step-Up Basis

Social Media

Spiffy Pop

Shadow Trading

Sign-On Bonus

T

Tenancy in Common

Target Market

Title Loan

Tax Identification Number (TIN)

Trailing 12 Months (TTM)

Trustee

Theta

Taxable Income

U

Underwriter

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Unicorn Company

V

Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)

Value-Added Tax

Virtual Assistant

Value Trap

Vertically Integrated

W

W-2

White-Label Product

Withholding Allowance

Y

Yield to Maturity (YTM)

Yield Curve

Z

Zero-Sum Game