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Financial Analysts
Definition: Also called securities analysts and investment analysts. Professionals who analyze financial statements, interview corporate executives, and attend trade shows, in order to write reports recommending either purchasing, selling, or holding various stocks.
Financial Assets
Definition: Claims on real assets.
Financial Close
Definition: The time when the documentation has been executed and conditions precedent have been satisfied or waived. Drawdowns are now permissible.
Financial Control
Definition: The management of a firm's costs and expenses in relation to budgeted amounts.
Financial Distress
Definition: Events preceding and including bankruptcy, such as violation of loan contracts.
Financial Distress Costs
Definition: Legal and administrative costs of liquidation or reorganization. Also includes implied costs associated with impaired ability to do business (indirect costs).
Financial Engineering
Definition: Combining or carving up existing instruments to create new financial products.
Financial Future
Definition: A contract entered into now that provides for the delivery of a specified asset in exchange for the selling price at some specified future date.
Financial Guarantee Insurance
Definition: Insurance created to cover losses from specified financial transactions.
Financial Innovation
Definition: Design of any new financial product, such as exotic currency options and swaps.
Financial Institution
Definition: An enterprise such as a bank whose primary business and function is to collect money from the public and invest it in financial assets such as stocks and bonds.
Financial Institution Buyer Credit Policy
Definition: Insurance coverage for loans by banks to foreign buyers of exports.
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery And Enforcement Act Of 1989 (FIRREA)
Definition: Legislation that established the Office of Thrift Supervision, which was created in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s.
Financial Instruments
Definition: As used by the CFTC, this term generally refers to any futures or option contract that is not based on an agricultural commodity or a natural resource. It includes currencies, equity securities, fixed income securities, and indexes of various kinds.
Financial Intermediaries
Definition: institution that provide the market function of matching borrowers and lenders or traders.
Financial Lease
Definition: Long-term, noncancellable rental agreement.
Financial Leverage
Definition: Use of debt to increase the expected return on equity. Financial leverage is measured by the ratio of debt to debt plus equity.
Financial Leverage Clientele
Definition: A group of investors who have a preference for investing in firms that adhere to a particular financial leverage policy.
Financial Leverage Ratios
Definition: Common ratios are debt divided by equity a debt divided by the sum of debt plus equity. Related: capitalization ratios.
Financial Market
Definition: An organized institutional structure or mechanism for creating and exchanging financial assets.
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