- AGM: Annual General Meeting
- Asset turnover ratio: Net assets / Total turnover
- Acid test ratio: Highly liquid assets / current liabilities
- ADR: American Depository Receipt
- AMC: Asset Management Company
- ADB: Asian Development Bank
- Audit: Annual financial statement and stock checking
- ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode / Automated Teller Machine
- Book-keeping: recording financial statements in accounts books.
- Bear market: Market situation in which Inventor think market will fall.
- Bull Market: Market situation in which Inventor think market will grow.
- BoP: Balance of Payments
- BSR: Basic Statistical Returns
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- BOP: Balance of Payment (difference between Exports and Imports)
- Capital: Assets – Liabilities
- CD: Certificate of Deposit
- CPI: Consumer price index
- CR: Capital Receipts
- CBS: Consolidated Banking Statistics
- CRR: Cash Reserve Ratio
- CP: Commercial Paper
- Depreciation: reduction in value of a asset over a time period because asset is being used.
- Dividend: profit share paid by company to its share holders.
- DID: Discharge of Internal Debt
- Equity: Total Aassets – Total Liabilities
- EBIT: Earning before interest and taxes
- ECS: Electronic Clearing Scheme
- EBT: Earning before tax
- EAT: Earning after tax
- Fixed Assets: Physical assets which are kept for long time (like land or machines)
- FCA: Foreign Currency Assets
- FCCB: Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
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Financial Year: 12 months period (In USA Financial year is called Fiscal Year).
Financial Year (Fiscal Year) of World’s Top 15 Economies:
| Economy | Financial Year |
| United States of America | 1 July to 30 June |
| China | 1 January to 31 December |
| Japan | 1 April to 31 March |
| Germany | – |
| United Kingdom | 6 April to 5 April |
| France | 1 January to 31 December |
| India | 1 April to 30 March |
| Italy | 1 January to 31 December |
| Brazil | 1 January to 31 December |
| Canada | 1 April to 31 March for Government and 1 January to 31 December for Individuals |
| South Korea | 1 January to 31 December |
| Russia | 1 January to 31 December |
| Australia | 1 July to 30 June |
| Spain | 1 January to 31 December |
- Gross profit: Net sales – Net purchases – Direct expenses
- GDP: Gross domestic product
- GDR: Global Depository Receipt
- GST: Goods and Services Tax
- GFD: Gross Fiscal Deficit
- GPD: Gross Primary Deficit
- IPO: Initial Pubic Offer (Stock offered first time in Financial Market)
- IBS: International Banking Statistics
- Intangible assets: Assets which are not present in physical form (For example: Software)
- ITRS: International Transaction Reporting System
- KYC: Know Your Customer
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- Liquid assets: Assets which can be converted in cash
- Liquid ratio: Liquid assets/Current liabilities
- LAF: Liquidity Adjustment Facility
- Monopoly: When single seller have dominance on market
- M1: Narrow Money
- M3: Broad Money
- MSS: Market Stabilisation Scheme
- Net profit: Gross Profit – Indirect cost
- NPV: Net Present Value
- Net worth: Net assets – Total liabilities
- NFA: Non-Foreign Exchange Assets
- NAV: Net Assets Value
- NPA: Non-Performing Assets
- OFI: Other Financial Institutions
- OMO: Open Market Operations
- OLTAS: On Line Tax Accounting System
- PLR: Prime lending Rate
- PDO: Public Debt Office
- ROI: Rate on investment
- RDB: Rural Development Bank
- RD: Revenue Deficit
- RLA: Recoveries of Loans & Advances
- RLC: Repayment of Loans to Centre
- RWA: Risk Weighted Asset
- Recession: Economy showing negative growth
- SFC: State Financial Corporation
- SGL: Subsidiary General Ledger
- SLR: Statutory Liquidity Ratio
- TBs: Treasury Bills
- WPI: Wholesale Price Index
- Working Capital: Current assets / Current liabilities
- WSS: Weekly Statistical Supplement
- YTM: Yield to Maturity
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