Numbers dressed up in fancy suits pretending to be words.
A curated roadmap to finding stuff in a document or database, the thing your pointer finger is named after, or a numerical benchmark that tells you if markets are having a good day or a panic attack. In finance, it's the scorecard everyone obsesses over.
International Financial Reporting Standards—GAAP's global cousin that's supposed to harmonize accounting worldwide, with mixed success.
The brave (or foolhardy) organization that creates and releases securities into the market, essentially asking strangers to trust their financial management for potential profits.
An asset you can't touch or see—patents, trademarks, copyrights, brand value. They're valuable but impossible to calculate precisely, which makes them accountants' favorite source of creative interpretation.
A person or business so financially submerged that accountants gave up and lawyers got involved. The point where 'broke' becomes a court-acknowledged legal catastrophe requiring formal government intervention.
How many times a company sells and replaces its inventory during a period. High turnover is usually good (products sell fast), unless it's so high that you're constantly out of stock.