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

Fuzzword: Business jargon.

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Lockbox

A collection and processing service provided to firms by banks, which collect payments from a dedicated postal box that the firm directs its customers to send payment to. The banks make several collections per day, process the payments immediately, and deposit the funds into the firm's bank account.


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