Glossary of Financial & Economic Terms

 

     
   

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Abnormal profit

Abnormal returns

Accelerator effect

Accelerated supply

Accord and satisfaction

Accounting cost

Account (Allocated) gold

Account (Certificate) gold

Account (unallocated) gold

Accredited investor

Accrual bond

Active management

Activist shareholder

Adaptive expectations

Advance premium forward

Adverse selection

Aggregate demand

Aggregate expenditure

Aggregate supply

Allotment (financial)

Alpha (investment)

American option

Angel investors

Annual report

Annuity

Anonymous banking

Anticipation (finance)

Antidumping

Arbitrage

Arbitrage pricing theory

Arbitristas

Argentine currency board

Arrovian uncertainty

Art finance

Asian financial crisis

Asian option

Asset pricing

Asset specific required rtn

Asset-based economy

Assignment

At-the-money (moneyness)

Auction call

Audit

Austrian school/economics

Autarky

Automatic stabilizer

Autonomous consumption

Average cost

 

 

Annual report

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An annual report is the annual legal statement which a business produces for its shareholders' in order to present its annual accounts at its AGM. The report will therefore normally include a profit and loss account and balance sheet, and a directors report and auditors report.

This is usually a sleek, colorful, high gloss publication. Make sure to look beyond the marketing and dig into the numbers. This is the best way to discover the direction of the company. The 10-K is the version of the annual report which gets submitted to the SEC. It contains more detailed financial information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_report

 

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