摘要: A large hedge fund led by Nobel Prize-winning economists and renowned Wall Street traders that nearly collapsed the global financial system in 1998 as a result of high-risk arbitrage trading strategie[阅读全文:]
摘要: A corporate structure whereby the shareholders of the company have a limited liability to the company's actions.
|||Basically, an LLC is a hybrid between a partnership and a corporation[阅读全文:]
摘要: Two or more partners united to conduct a business jointly, and in which one or more of the partners is liable only to the extent of the amount of money that partner has invested. Limited partners do n[阅读全文:]
摘要: An arrangement between a financial institution, usually a bank, and a customer that establishes a maximum loan balance that the bank will permit the borrower to maintain. The borrower can draw down on[阅读全文:]
摘要: A qualified retirement plan that combines an employee's stock ownership plan (ESOP) with a 401(k). Under this type of retirement plan the company will match employee contributions with stock rather t[阅读全文:]
摘要: A tax on the value of a piece of land. Land value tax inherently makes up a portion of all real estate property tax; however, land value tax takes only the fair value of the land into account. The tax[阅读全文:]
摘要: An asset-management and valuation method that assumes that assets produced or acquired last are the ones that are used, sold or disposed of first.
|||LIFO assumes that an entity sells, u[阅读全文:]
摘要: A term used to describe financial results during the period of the last 12 months.
|||Can also be called Trailing Twelve Months (TTM).
LTM just represents the period of time. It [阅读全文:]
摘要: 1. An agreement that describes in detail a corporation's intention to execute a corporate action. The letter of intent is created by the corporation with its management and legal council, among other[阅读全文:]
摘要: The acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition. Often, the assets of the company being acquired are used as collateral[阅读全文:]