Financial Terms
‍Glossary

CIO - Chief Information Officer

Formal

Chief Information Officer - responsible for a company's information technology systems - strategy and delivery to support business efficiency and future development.

Informal

Chief Information Officer - the Board member ultimately responsible for all those IT nightmares that businesses endure. Fortune-teller or gypsy medium - expected to know everything, pre-empt every issue, and always blamed when systems fail.

APR - Annual Percentage Rate
Administration
Amortisation
Annual Report
Approving a Sale
Assurance
Authorisation Process
Balance Sheet
Balloon Payment
Base Rate
Benefits
Bill Of Exchange
CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAPEX - Capital Expenditure
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CIO - Chief Information Officer
COO - Chief Operating Officer
CTO - Chief Technology Office
Capital
Capital Goods
Capital Lease
Capital Spend
Cash Burn
Chairman
Chapter 11
Charge
Chinese Walls
Churn
Cockroach Effect
Contract Hire
Cost Of Capital
Cost Savings
Covenant
Credit Scoring
Credit Search
Creditors
Cross Charging
DCF - Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
DSO
Debentures
Debtors
Depreciation
Directors' Report
Discount Rate (pa%)
Dividend
Dividend Yield
EBITDA
EPS - Earnings Per Share
EVA %
EVA - Economic Value Add
Earnings
Efficiency Improvements
Ego
Endorsement
Equity
Equity Rental
Extension Rentals
FD - Finance Director
FRS 17
Factoring
Finance Lease
Financial Returns
Fixed Assets
Floating Charge
Forward Multiple
Fraud Reduction
Funds Flow Statement
Gearing
Goodwill
Gross Profit Percentage
Hire Purchase
Hurdle Rate
IPO - Initial Public Offering
IRR - Internal Rate Of Return
Impairment Charge
Incoterms
Infrastructure
Initial Lease Period
Insider Trading
Insolvency
Intangible Asset
Inventory
Investment Appraisal
LIBOR - London Inter Bank Offered Rate
Lease Purchase
Leasing
Leverage
Like-for-like
Liquidation
Liquidity
Liquidity Ratio
Loaded Cost
Loans
Loss
MD - Managing Director
MMC - Monopolies and Mergers Commission
Margin
Marginal Cost
Mark Up

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