Numbers dressed up in fancy suits pretending to be words.
The fancy financial way of saying money actually left the account and went somewhere else, as opposed to being promised, allocated, or trapped in bureaucratic purgatory. It's the moment when funds stop being theoretical and become someone else's problem or pleasure. Government agencies and large organizations love this word because it makes spending sound more sophisticated.
The average number of days it takes to sell through inventory, calculated as (inventory / cost of goods sold) × 365. A metric that reveals whether you're efficiently managed or operating a museum of unsold products.
In finance, the prudent strategy of spreading your investments across multiple assets so you can lose money in several different ways simultaneously instead of just one. It's the investing equivalent of not putting all your eggs in one basket, which sounds wise until you realize you now have twelve baskets to worry about. Portfolio managers love to brag about how diversified they are, right up until everything crashes at the same time anyway.
The financial toll of doing business across borders, or the moral obligation to show up to work and pretend to care. In accounting, these are taxes levied on imports and exports that make international shopping significantly less fun. In corporate life, it's the nebulous set of responsibilities that somehow always includes "other duties as assigned."
Products sold without government taxes at airports and border zones, creating the illusion of amazing deals while you're trapped in transit. The magical land where alcohol and perfume become 'affordable' because customs duties don't apply. Convinces travelers they're saving money while spending it on things they didn't need in the first place.
Every transaction gets recorded twice—one debit, one credit—ensuring your mistakes cancel each other out... usually.
A leverage metric comparing total liabilities to shareholder equity, revealing whether a company is conservatively financed or one recession away from bankruptcy. Financial analysts' favorite way to judge how recklessly a company borrows.
To reduce a price, debt, or future obligation by a mathematical percentage because apparently money today is worth more than money tomorrow (who knew?).
The number that gets to boss around the dividend in a division problem. In finance and analytics, it's whatever metric you're dividing by to make your data look smarter—revenue per employee, users per server, suffering per leadership decision.
A fancy term for items that trigger customs duties when crossing borders, because apparently governments never met a transaction they didn't want to tax. If you're importing it and the taxman wants a cut, congratulations—it's dutiable. This word exists primarily to make customs forms sound more official than "stuff we're charging you extra for."
Money that companies hand back to shareholders because they couldn't figure out how to burn it all on expansion. It's the reward for owning a piece of a company that actually makes profit—a rare and increasingly mythical creature in the startup world.
A price reduction that makes accountants slightly nervous because it means less margin, but customers absolutely love it.
A sum you legally remove from your taxable income to pay less to the government—basically society's way of saying 'if you spent it on this, we'll forgive you some taxes.' Also a logical reasoning method, but accountants care way more about the money part.
Money you owe for the privilege of belonging to a club, association, or organization. Also, what you get when someone finally admits you were right all along.
To place valuables, documents, or funds into safekeeping with another party, often as collateral or for storage—the formal way of saying 'I'm leaving this with you and I expect it back.'
The length of time something takes, from start to finish—also a finance term that measures how bond prices throw a tantrum when interest rates change. In music, it's how long a note gets to hang out; in warfare, it's corporate-speak for 'how long this mess lasts.'