Face value: Alternative name for par value.

Factor market: The place where inputs or resources are bought or sold. Factor markets ...

Fair Credit Reporting Act: A consumer protection law that regulates the disclosure of consumer cr ...

Fallen angels: Stocks or bonds that were originally considered good investments but w ...

Fannie Mae: The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA).

FASB: Financial Accounting Standards Board

Fast Tape: Transactions in the pit or ring take place in such volume and with suc ...

FCF: Operating free cash flows

Federal funds rate: The rate charged by the Federal Reserve to member banks when excess re ...

Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932: Law that created the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and a network of reg ...

Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB): The FHLBB is an agency responsible for regulating and controlling savi ...

Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA): The FNMA is a US government-backed corporation which purchases mortgag ...

Feuhold: The Scottish word for freehold

FIB: Family Income Benefit

Fictitious Trading: Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other schemes which give th ...

Fiduciary: This term can be used both as an adjective and a noun. It is used in t ...

Fiduciary issue: The fiduciary issue is the part of the issue of notes and coins that i ...

Fill: The process of completing a customer's order to purchase or sell a cur ...

Fill-or-kill order (FOK): A trading order that is canceled unless executed within a designated t ...

FIM: Markka (no longer in use) from Finland.



FIMBRA: Financial Intermediaries, Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association

Final dividend: The dividend that is paid at the end of the financial year as the fina ...

Financial economies of scale: The ability of large firms to borrow money on more favourable terms th ...

Financial Institutions Reform (FIRREA): In August of 1989 the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enfor ...

Financial intermediaries: Institutions which channel funds from people and institutions wishing ...

Financial Services Authority (FSA): The Financial Services Authority was created by the incoming UK Labor ...

Fisher equation of exchange: Fisher's equation of exchange states MV = PT. M is the money supply; V ...

Fishing expedition: An inquiry into an issue without a development plan.

Fixed assets: Alternative name for noncurrent assets.

Fixed costs: Production expenses that are independent of the level of output. Fixed ...

Fixed exchange rates: A fixed exchange rate system is one where the value of the currency ag ...

Fixed interest securities: Fixed interest securities relates to bonds, bills, stocks and debentur ...

FJD: Fiji Dollar from Fiji Islands.

FKP: Falkland Pound from the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

Flat Organisational Structure: An organisation where there is less distance between the higher and lo ...

Flight Capital: Money that flows offshore and likely never returns. Flight is exacerba ...

Floater: Floating rate bond

Flotation: Flotation refers to the situation when a private limited company or ne ...

FMBA: Financial Management and Business Analysis

Focus group: A small group of people meet an interviewer to discuss a product, serv ...



FOF: Futures and Options Fund

Force majeure: External contingencies that affect performance of a contract. ...

Foreclosure: The legal process by which a borrower in default under a mortgage is d ...

Foreign Aid: The international transfer of public and private funds in the form of ...

Foreign Investor in Real Property Tax Act of 1980: Under FIRPTA (Foreign Investor in Real Property Tax Act of 1980), and ...

Forfeiture: The loss of money, property, rights, or privileges due to a breach of ...

Formica parachute: Unemployment compensation

Forward exchange rate: The forward exchange rate is a rate for buying foreign exchange at a f ...

Four P's: Product, price, promotion, place. Also referred to as the marketing mi ...

Four-firm concentration ratio: The sum of the portions of sales, value added, assets, or employees he ...

FOX: Futures and Options Exchange

FRA: A forward rate agreement (FRA) is an agreement that a certain interest ...

Franchise: The right to sell products or services under a corporate name or trade ...

Free market economy: A system where resources are owned by households: markets allocate res ...

Free rider: A person who chooses to receive the benefits of public goods or positi ...

Freeports: Areas close to air and shipping ports into which imports are allowed w ...

FRF: French Franc (no longer in use) from Andorra and France. Also used in ...

Frictional unemployment: Sometimes called transitional, this occurs when unemployed workers are ...

FRS3: The Financial Reporting Standard 3 (FRS3) issued by the Accounting Sta ...

FSAVC: Free Standing AVC



FTC: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) works to ensure that the US market ...

FTPs: Fixed-price tender offers. A method of share repurchase in which a put ...

Full disclosure: The principle of providing to investors all information required to ma ...

Full employment equilibrium: This is the level at Net National Income at which everyone who wants t ...

Fundamental analysis: A method of research that studies basic financial information to forec ...

FURBS: Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Scheme

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