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Financial Terms Starts With A

A-B Trust

A-Shares

AAA

AARP

Abenomics

Ability-to-Pay Taxation

Abnormal Return

Absolute Advantage

Absolute Return

Absorption Costing

Absorption Rate

Accelerated Depreciation

Acceleration Clause

Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)

Accepting Risk

Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D)

Accidental Death Benefits

Account Balance

Account in Trust

Account Number

Account Statement

Accountability

Accountant

Accountant Responsibility

Accounting

Accounting Conservatism

Accounting Cycle

Accounting Equation

Accounting Information System (AIS)

Accounting Method

Accounting Policies

Accounting Principles

Accounting Profit

Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)

Accounting Ratio

Accounting Standard

Accounting Theory

Accounts Payable (AP)

Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio

Accounts Receivable (AR)

Accounts Receivable Aging

Accounts Receivable Financing

Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS)

Accredited In Business Valuation (ABV)

Accredited Investor

Accretion

Accretion of Discount

Accretive

Accrual Accounting

Accruals

Accrue

Accrued Expense

Accrued Income

Accrued Interest

Accrued Liability

Accrued Revenue

Accumulated Depreciation

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

Accumulation Phase

Accumulation/Distribution Indicator (A/D)

Acid-Test Ratio

Acquisition

Acquisition Accounting

Acquisition Cost

Acquisition Premium

Active Management

Activist Investor

Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB)

Activity-Based Costing (ABC)

Activity-Based Management (ABM)

Activity Cost Driver

Activity Ratios

Actual Deferral & Actual Contribution Percentage Test (ADP/ACP)

Actuarial Gain Or Loss

Actuarial Life Table

Actuarial Science

Ad Valorem Tax

Add-On Interest

Additional Child Tax Credit

Additional Paid-In Capital

Addition Rule for Probabilities

Adhesion Contract

Adjudication

Adjustable Life Insurance

Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)

Adjusted Closing Price

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO)

Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)

Adjusted Present Value (APV)

Adjusting Journal Entry

Administrative Expenses

Administrative Services Only (ASO)

Advance/Decline Line (A/D)

Advance Payment

Advanced Internal Rating-Based (AIRB)

Adverse Possession

Adverse Selection

Advertising Budget

Affiliate

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliated Companies

Affirmative Action

Affordable Care Act

After-Tax Real Rate of Return

After-Hours Trading

After-Tax Contribution

After-Tax Income

Agency Bond

Agency by Necessity

Agency Costs

Agency Problem

Agency Theory

Agent

Aggregate Demand

Aggregate Stop-Loss Insurance

Aggregate Supply

Aggregation

Aggressive Investment Strategy

Agribusiness

Air Waybill (AWB)

Aktiengesellschaft (AG)

Alan Greenspan

Aleatory Contract

Algorithmic Trading

All Risks

Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses (ALAE)

Allocational Efficiency

Allotment

Allowance for Bad Debt

Allowance for Credit Losses

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Alpha

Alphabet Stock

Altcoin

Alternative Depreciation System (ADS)

Alternative Investment

Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

Alternative Trading System (ATS)

Altman Z-Score

Always Be Closing (ABC)

Amalgamation

Amended Return

American Depositary Receipt (ADR)

American Depositary Share (ADS)

American Dream

American Express Card

American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC)

American Option

American Stock Exchange (AMEX)

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Amortizable Bond Premium

Amortization of Intangibles

Amortization Schedule

Amortized Bond?

Amortized Loan

Amsterdam Stock Exchange (AEX)

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Android Operating System

Anchoring

Anchoring and Adjustment

Angel Investor

Animal Spirits

Annual Equivalent Rate (AER)

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

Annual Percentage Yield (APY)

Annual Report

Annual Return

Annual Turnover

Annualize

Annualized Income

Annualized Income Installment Method

Annualized Rate of Return

Annualized Total Return

Annuitant

Annuitization

Annuity

Annuity Due

Annuity Table

Anomaly

Anti-Dilution Provision

Anti-Dumping Duty

Anti Money Laundering (AML)

Anticipatory Breach

Antitrust

Appellate Courts

Applicable Federal Rate (AFR)

Application Programming Interface (API)

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

Applied Economics

Appraisal

Appraisal Costs

Appraisal Management Company (AMC)

Appreciation

Appropriation

Appropriation Account

Aptitude Test

Arab League

Arbitrage

Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)

Arbitrageur

Arbitration

Arc Elasticity

Arithmetic Mean

Arm's Length Transaction

Arms Index (TRIN)

Aroon Indicator

Aroon Oscillator

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

Article 50

Articles of Association

Articles of Incorporation

Artificial Intelligence

Ascending Channel

Ascending Triangle

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Asian Development Bank

Asian Financial Crisis

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Ask

Assemble to Order (ATO)

Assessed Value

Asset

Asset Allocation

Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP)

Asset-Backed Security (ABS)

Asset-Based Approach

Asset-Based Lending

Asset Class

Asset Coverage Ratio

Asset Financing

Asset-Liability Committee (ALCO)

Asset/Liability Management

Asset Management

Asset Management Company (AMC)

Asset Protection

Asset Retirement Obligation

Asset Swap

Asset Swapped Convertible Option Transaction (ASCOT)

Asset Turnover Ratio

Asset Valuation

Assets Under Management (AUM)

Assignment

Assortment Strategies

Assumable Mortgage

Assurance

Assurance Services

Asymmetric Information

At Par

Atomic Swaps

At The Money

Attorney-in-Fact

Attribution Analysis

Attrition

Auction Market

Audit

Audit Committee

Audit Risk

Auditor

Auditor's Opinion

Auditor's Report

Augmented Product

Austerity

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

Autarky

Authorized Stock

Autocorrelation

Automated Clearing House (ACH)

Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS)

Automated Teller Machine (ATM)

Automatic Bill Payment

Automatic Premium Loan

Automatic Stabilizer

Autonomous Consumption

Autonomous Expenditure

Autoregressive

Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)

Available Balance

Available-for-Sale Security

Average Age Of Inventory

Average Annual Growth Rate (AAGR)

Average Annual Return (AAR)

Average Inventory

Average Collection Period

Average Cost Basis

Average Cost Method

Average Daily Balance Method

Average Daily Rate (ADR)

Average Daily Trading Volume (ADTV)

Average Directional Index (ADX)

Average Life

Average Outstanding Balance

Average Propensity to Consume

Average Return

Average Selling Price (ASP)

Average True Range (ATR)

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