October 2013
Beginner
608 pages
30h 22m
English
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Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition
by Ronald W. Melicher, Edgar A. Norton
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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
problems, 265
Accounts payable
debt, 360
Accounts receivable factoring, 465–467
comparison, 467t
origin, 360
pledging, 464–465 comparison, 467t
Accredited investors, 278
Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)
change, 183
defined, 166
replacement, 168
Administrative inflation, defined, 192
Administrative pressures, 191
Advance factoring, defined, 465
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
American International Group (AIG), bailout, 44, 107
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, 102, 103
Amortized loan, ...
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