Stocks
What is the definition of stock?
A stock represents a share in the ownership of a company, including a claim on the company's earnings and assets. As such, stockholders are partial owners of the company.
In 2001, Goldman Sachs coined the phrase BRIC as an acronym for the four biggest developing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China. Located on Cape Agulhas, what fifth country added an S to the acronym in 2010?
South Africa
Which Minnesota-based S&P 500 company has the NYSE ticker symbol "MMM"?
Both the tax preparation application TurboTax and the small business accounting program QuickBooks are products owned and sold by what publicly traded company?
Intuit
What two-word, alliterative term is the process by which a fund manager asks the fund’s investors to contribute a portion of their fund commitment?
Capital call
Accountants use different methods of depreciation for tax purposes. What do the letters in the Acronym LIFO stand for?
Last In First Out
In the insurance business, what is the name for a person whose job it is to analyze statistics to calculate risks and price premiums accordingly?
Actuary
The Accounting Hall of Fame was created in 1950 at what large Ohio University?
Ohio State
Hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod's aggressive attempts to make money, and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades's attempts to prosecute him, form much of the plot of what Showtime TV series?
Billions
Jack Dorsey is most known for co-founding Twitter, but he is also CEO of another tech company. What is the name of this other company most well-known for credit card readers?
Block
Which F term describes the year as it pertains to figuring out your business’s annual budget and other finances? For example, looking at quarterly statements and getting your taxes in order.
Fiscal
What airline, headquartered in Florida, is listed on the NASDAQ with the symbol SAVE?
Spirit Airlines
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a non-profit "standard-setting body" that establishes and improves the set of accounting principles used in the U.S. and known by what four-letter acronym?
GAAP
If you're not flush with cash, one good way to finance a major renovation on your house is a HELOC, or WHAT WHAT line of credit?
Home Equity
There are a couple of “B” words that are important if someone dies and leaves a will. The first is “beneficiary,” which would be a surviving person that the deceased would like to leave things (including their money) to. What’s the other “B” word that describes the action of gifting assets to someone in a will?
Bequeath
In economics, the Laffer curve describes the relationship between the rate of which compulsory financial charge and the resulting revenue? According to Benjamin Franklin, only this financial charge and death are certainties in life.
Taxes
When the stock market index S&P 500 is referenced in the U.S., technically "S&P" no longer stands for anything. However, what did these two letters previously stand for?
Standard and Poor's
The demise of Arthur Andersen whittled the Big Four accounting firms down to Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and what Oscar-helpers with a smushed name?
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Founded in 1983 in Mountain View, CA, what accounting software was imagined as Quicken for small business owners?
QuickBooks
The southern most ATMs in the world is found at McMurdo station in Antarctica. What is currency is the only currency it dispenses?
US Dollars
Fair Isaac Corporation came up with a way to calculate your creditworthiness, but you probably know the company as what four-letter acronym that's associated with your credit score?
FICO
Which mega company’s industrial average shows you how 30 top stocks in the United States are performing and serves as a benchmark that you can compare your investments to?
Dow Jones
What document can be defined as a statement of financial position, listing a company’s assets, liabilities, and equity? It can be used to determine financial return and a business’s capital structure.
Balance sheet
Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Michael Lewis, what 2015 film stars Christian Bale and Steve Carell as financiers who play the market in the years leading to the 2007 housing market crash?
The Big Short
What 2021 installment in the Call of Duty video game franchise shares its name with one of America's largest investment management firms?
VanGaurd