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Preface | |
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Accounts Payable Ratios | |
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Accounts Receivable Management | |
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Accounts Receivable Ratios | |
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Acid-Test (Quick) Ratio | |
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Actual Cash Value | |
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Adjusted Gross Income | |
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Alpha Value | |
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Amortized Loan | |
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Annual Percentage Rate | |
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Applied (Predetermined) Overhead Rate | |
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Arbitrage | |
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Arithmetic Average Return | |
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Asset Utilization (Turnover) | |
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Audit Fees to Sales | |
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Average (Arithmetic Mean) | |
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Bad-Debt Ratios | |
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Bank Reconciliation | |
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Barron's Confidence Index | |
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Beta | |
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Black-Scholes Option-Pricing Model | |
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Bond Valuation | |
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Bond Yield | |
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Book Value per Share | |
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Breadth Index | |
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Breakeven Formulas | |
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Capital-Asset Pricing Model | |
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Capitalization Rate | |
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Cash Flow Ratios | |
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Cash-Management Models | |
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Cash Plus Cash Equivalents to Working Capital | |
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Cash Ratios | |
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Certainty-Equivalent Approach | |
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x[superscript 2] (Chi-Square) Test | |
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Coefficient of Variation | |
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Common-Stock Valuation | |
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Contribution Margin | |
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Controllable (Budget, Spending) Variance | |
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Conversion Ratio | |
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Corporate Planning Models | |
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Correlation Analysis | |
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Cost of Capital | |
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Cost of Credit | |
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Cost of Prediction Errors | |
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Credit Cost on Installment Purchase | |
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Current-Liability Ratios | |
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Current Ratio | |
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Decision Matrix | |
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Decision Tree | |
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Decomposition of Time Series | |
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Defensive Interval Ratio | |
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Deposits Times Capital Ratio | |
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Depreciation Formulas | |
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Direct Costs-to-Sales Ratios | |
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Discretionary-Cost Ratios | |
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Dividend Ratios | |
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Dollar-Cost Averaging | |
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Du Pont Formulas | |
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Earnings per Share | |
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EBIT-EPS Approach to Capital Structure | |
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Economic Order Quantity | |
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Economic Production Run Size | |
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Effective Annual Yield | |
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Effective Interest Rate | |
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Effective Tax Rate | |
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Elasticity of Demand | |
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Equity Ratios | |
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Equivalent Taxable Yield | |
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Estimated Expenses versus Cash Expenses | |
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Expected Value and Standard Deviation | |
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Exponential Smoothing | |
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Fixed-Asset Ratios | |
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Fixed-Charge Coverage | |
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Flexible-Budget Variance | |
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Foreign-Exchange Gains and Losses | |
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Forward Premium (or Discount) on a Forward Exchange Contract | |
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Funded Debt (Long-Term Debt) to Operating Property | |
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Funds-Flow Adequacy Ratio | |
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Future (Compound) Value | |
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Future Value of an Annuity | |
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Geometric Average Return | |
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Gordon's Dividend Growth Model | |
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Gross Income Multiplier | |
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Gross Profit Variance | |
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Growth Rate | |
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High-Low Method | |
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Holding-Period Return | |
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Horizontal Analysis | |
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Housing-Affordability Measures | |
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Index-Number Trend Series | |
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Index of Bearish Sentiment | |
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Indirect Labor to Direct Labor | |
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Inflation Adjustments | |
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Instability Index in Earnings | |
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Insurance Reimbursement | |
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Interest Computation | |
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Interest Coverage (Times Interest Earned) Ratio | |
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Interest-Rate Swaps | |
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Internal Rate of Return (Time-Adjusted Rate of Return) | |
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Intrayear Compounding | |
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Inventory Ratios | |
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Investment Income to Investments | |
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Investment Turnover | |
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Lawsuit Damages to Sales | |
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Learning Curve | |
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Least-Squares Regression | |
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Leverage Ratios and Financial Leverage | |
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Life Insurance Adequacy | |
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Linear Programming | |
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Liquid Assets to Take-Home Pay | |
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Liquidity Index | |
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Loan-Loss Coverage Ratio | |
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Loans to Deposits | |
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Maintenance and Repair Index | |
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Margin Requirement | |
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Marginal Cost and Marginal Revenue | |
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Market-Index Model | |
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Materiality of Options | |
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Median | |
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Mix and Yield Variances | |
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Mode | |
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Moving Average | |
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Multiple Regression | |
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Multiple-Regression Tests | |
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Naive Forecasting Models | |
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Net Asset Value | |
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Net-Cost Method | |
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Net Income Multiplier | |
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Net Savings | |
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Net Worth | |
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Noncurrent Assets to Noncurrent Liabilities | |
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Normal Distribution | |
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Odd-Lot Index | |
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Off-Balance-Sheet Assets and Liabilities | |
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Operating Assets Ratio | |
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Operating Cycle | |
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Operating Leverage | |
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Operating Revenue-to-Operating Property Ratio | |
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Opportunity Cost | |
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Opportunity Cost of Not Taking a Discount | |
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Payback Period | |
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Pension Formulas | |
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Percent Earned on Operating Property | |
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Percent-of-Sales Method for Financial Forecasting | |
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Personal Debt to Personal Assets | |
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Portfolio Theory | |
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Preferred Stock to Total Stockholders' Equity | |
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Present Value | |
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Present Value of an Annuity | |
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"Pressing" Current Liabilities to "Patient" Current Liabilities | |
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Price-to-Book Value Ratio | |
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Price-Earnings Ratio (Multiple) | |
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Price (Rate, Spending) Variance | |
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Profit Margin | |
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Profitability Index | |
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Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) | |
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Quality of Earnings | |
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Quantity Discount Model (EOQ with Quantity Discounts) | |
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Quantity (Usage, Efficiency) Variance | |
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Realization Risk in Assets | |
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Regression Statistics | |
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Reorder Point | |
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Repairs and Maintenance Ratios | |
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Residual Income | |
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Return on Total Assets | |
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Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate | |
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Risk Measures | |
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Rule of 72 and Rule of 69 | |
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Rule of 78 | |
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Safety Stock | |
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Sales-Mix Analysis | |
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Sales Returns and Allowances to Sales | |
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Sales to Current Assets | |
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Sales to Current Debt | |
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Sales to Personnel | |
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Sales Variances | |
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Salesperson Variances | |
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Savings to Income | |
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Selling Price Computation | |
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Shadow Price | |
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Simple Interest | |
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Simple (Accounting) Rate of Return | |
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Simple Regression | |
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Simulation Model | |
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Sinking Fund Computation | |
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Systematic-Sampling Formula | |
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Take-Home Pay to Debt-Service Charges | |
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Taxable Income | |
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Trading on the Equity (Real Estate) | |
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Trend Equation | |
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Valuation of a Business | |
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Value of Option (Call and Put) | |
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Value of Stock Rights | |
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Variable Costs to Fixed Costs | |
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Vertical (Common-Size) Analysis | |
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Volume (Denominator) Variance | |
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Warehouse Cost Variances | |
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Weighted Average (Mean) | |
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Wilcox's Gambler's-Ruin Prediction Formula | |
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Working Capital | |
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Yield on Preferred Stock | |
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Z-Score Model: Forecasting Business Failures | |
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Appendix | |
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Index | |