Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition

INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by an f indicate figures; those followed by t indicate tables.

A

Absolute cost advantages, 478

Acceptances, 469

Accommodative function, defined, 82

Account executive, career opportunity, 298

Accounting

accrual concept, 356

firms, conflict of interest (elimination), 371

identity, 359

perspective, financial perspectives (comparison), 356t

practices, problems, 369

principles, 355–357

problems, 265

Accounts payable

calculation, 421–422

debt, 360

Accounts receivable factoring, 465–467

comparison, 467t

financing, 464–467

management, 436–440

origin, 360

period, usage, 419–420

pledging, 464–465 comparison, 467t

Accredited investors, 278

Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)

change, 183

defined, 166

replacement, 168

Adjustment credit, 85–86

Administrative inflation, defined, 192

Administrative pressures, 191

Advance factoring, defined, 465

Advisory committees, 77, 80

Aftermarket, defined, 281

After-tax salvage value, calculation, 506

Agency costs, 539

defined, 370

Agents, defined, 369

Aggregate demand, fiscal policy (impact), 105

Alexander the Great (inflationary period), 188

American depository receipt (ADR)

defined, 297

trading, 297–298

American International Group (AIG), bailout, 44, 107

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, 102, 103

Amortized loan, ...