Investment & Stocks
A share in the ownership of a company
What is a stock?
What is to earn profit?
A company's total assets minus its total liabilities.
What is equity?
A person who starts and manages a business, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit
What is an entrepreneur?
This financial document outlines a company’s assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity at a specific point in time
What is a balance sheet?
A debt investment where an investor loans money to an entity
What is a bond?
the state of being responsible for something
What is a liability/liable entity?
This type of financial document provides a snapshot of a company’s financial performance over a specific period, showing revenue, expenses, and profits
A temporary position in an organization, often for students or recent graduates, to gain work experience in a specific field
What is an intern?
The level of sales at which a company’s revenues exactly cover its costs, resulting in neither profit nor loss
What is a break-even point?
A person who buys or sells stocks for the customer
What is a broker?
The study of how resources are distributed for the production of goods and services within a social system
What is economics?
This type of financial institution specializes in lending money to people who want to buy homes.
What is a mortgage bank?
A department in an organization that manages employee-related processes, including recruitment, training, benefits, and employee relations
What is Human Resources (HR)?
A measure of a company’s operational efficiency and short-term financial health, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities
What is working capital?
A fund that matches the performance of a specific stock market index
The funds used to acquire the natural and human resources needed to provide products
What is capital?
This type of financial strategy involves buying and holding securities for the long term, rather than trading frequently
What is the buy-and-hold strategy?
A person who works independently for multiple clients or businesses, often on a project-by-project basis, rather than being employed full-time
What is a freelancer?
A complete record of all financial transactions over the life of a company, organized by accounts.
What is a general ledger?
A collection of investments managed by a professional
What is a mutual fund?
A market structure with a single seller or producer that assumes a dominant position in an industry or a sector
This is the financial term used to describe the practice of offsetting potential losses in one investment by taking an opposite position in a related asset
What is hedging?
A specialized recruitment process used to find and hire high-level executives for leadership roles in companies
What is an executive search?
This term refers to a system of accounting where revenue and expenses are recognized when they are earned or incurred, rather than when cash changes hands