摘要: A tactic used by employees to share blame or divert blame should something go wrong. "Covering your ass" is usually done in big projects where an employee may choose to avoid taking credit for doing[阅读全文:]
摘要: The spread created in commodity markets by purchasing oil futures and offsetting the position by selling gasoline and heating oil futures. This investment alignment allows the investor to hedge agains[阅读全文:]
摘要: An accounting practice in which a company uses generous reserves from good years against losses that might be incurred in bad years. Cookie jar accounting is a sign of misleading accounting practices.[阅读全文:]
摘要: A slang term used to refer to something favorable that has happened in business. For example, an employee receiving a raise may reply with the words "cool beans," upon receiving the news.
摘要: The main strengths or strategic advantages of a business. Core competencies are the combination of pooled knowledge and technical capacities that allow a business to be competitive in the marketplace.[阅读全文:]
摘要: An investment that you plan on keeping in your portfolio for a very long period of time, sometimes permanently.
Buying shares in General Electric and holding them for 30 or more years wo[阅读全文:]
摘要: To acquire enough shares of a particular security in order to manipulate its price.
This is why people with significant interest in a particular stock are watched very closely by the Sec[阅读全文:]
摘要: 1. The act of securing enough controlling interest or ownership within a single security so that manipulation of price can occur.
2. A rare situation occurring in commodity markets wherein the[阅读全文:]
摘要: An act of self-infringement upon market share by corporations through the issuance of new products.
Also known as "market cannibalization".
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摘要: Buzzword that describes the greed of corporate executives who use underhanded tactics to siphon off wealth at the expense of shareholders. This buzzword is attributed to how ex-Hollinger CEO, Conrad B[阅读全文:]