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Ordinary annuity: An annuity that pays installments at the end of each time interval.<br />

Organization chart: A diagram illustrating the structure of an organization and positions within the<br />

organization.<br />

Other comprehensive income: A set of unrealized income elements that are added to conventional<br />

net income to arrive at comprehensive income. The key other comprehensive income items are foreign<br />

currency translation adjustments, unrealized gains and losses on certain securities, and adjustments<br />

related to defined benefit pension plans.<br />

Outsourcing: The subcontracting of a manufacture, process, design, or function to a third-party<br />

company.<br />

Override: The noncompliance or bypassing or subversion of internal controls by top management.<br />

Payment per period (PMT): Payment based on constant periodic amounts and a constant interest<br />

rate.<br />

Pecking order theory: A theory of capital structure that holds that financial managers finance<br />

companies in a particular order: internal funds first, followed by safer debt securities, followed by<br />

riskier equity securities.<br />

Perpetuity: A series of cash flows that go on forever.<br />

Political risk: Risk arising from political change within a foreign country. This may include seizing<br />

the assets of a foreign company, changes in tax policy, changes in environmental and work<br />

regulations, or demands for bribes or other payments.<br />

Pooling of interests method: A method not used since June 2001 in which after an acquisition the<br />

bidder and target firm balance sheets were combined simply by adding book values.<br />

Portfolio: A collection of stocks or assets. Investors hold their stocks or assets in portfolios to reduce<br />

the overall risk of their investments.<br />

Premise of value: An assumption regarding the most likely set of transactional circumstances that<br />

may be applicable to the subject valuation (e.g., going concern, liquidation).<br />

Premium: The amount over current market price paid to the target to execute an acquisition.<br />

Present value (PV): Value today of a future amount of money.<br />

Primary target audience (PTA): A group of potential customers identified by demographic and<br />

psychographic data that will be the focus of the company‟s early marketing and sales efforts.<br />

Proxy contest: An attempt to gain control of a corporation by soliciting shareholder votes.

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