Numbers dressed up in fancy suits pretending to be words.
The irrational commitment to failing projects because you've already wasted so much time and money that stopping now would mean admitting it was all pointless. It's throwing good money after bad while calling it 'persistence.'
The estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life, before you actually try to sell it and discover it's worth much less. Also called residual value by optimists who think depreciation schedules reflect reality.
A measure of whether a company can meet its long-term obligations, typically comparing assets to liabilities or earnings to debt service. It answers the question: 'Will this company exist next year?'