FREDERIC NOEL BUSINESS.
The purpose of this glossary is to inform readers about business lexical fields and to demonstrate business and stock marketing world to the readers. Those words are going to make you more than an amateur when it comes to economy.
- Accounting
- noun
- the action or process of keeping financial accounts.
- Example: Accounting is the process to analyze the economy of a company.
- fr: comptabilité
- Revenue
- noun
- income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature.
- Example: gained an approximate annual revenue of 1,400 -1,500 talents which equates to between 8,400,000 and 9,000,000 drachmas.
- fr: revenu
- Liabilities
- noun
- a thing for which someone is responsible, especially a debt or financial obligation.
- Example: On the other hand, the Current assets of the company decreased by 1% to £251.5 m (2004: £253.3 m) and, in connection with the increase of Current liabilities by 11% (from £106.6 m in 2004 to £118.1 m in 2005), this resulted in a 9% decrease of Net current assets to £133.4 m (2004: £146.7 m).
- fr: passif
- Expenses
- noun
- the cost required for something; the money spent on something.
- Example: Though it is not their legal obligation to disclose their accounts, these figures would have been of use when judging the effectiveness of the group in relation to campaign costs, administration and other expenses.
- fr: dépenses
- Assets
- noun
- property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
- Example: However, it is obvious that Bodycote could easily meet its Current Liabilities using its Current assets, for both 2004 and 2005 The Net assets increased by 3% (from £422.0 m in 2004 to £433.5 m in 2005), since there was an important increase of Non current assets as it was stated before.
- fr: actifs
- Return of investment
- noun
- Return on Investment, often referred to as ROI, is a ratio used to calculate the profitability (gain or loss) of an investment as a percentage of the cost. Return on investment is expressed as a percentage and is often used to compare the profitability of different investments and investment types.
- Example: A subsidiary objective was to promote diversification in production by reducing the relative rate of return of investment in sugar.
- fr: retour d'investissement
- Cash flow
- noun, adjective
- the total amount of money being transferred into and out of a business, especially as affecting liquidity.
- Example: In addition to financial and budgetary analysis' there are various other methods available to me to use for measuring and controlling the organisational performance of the farm, the main ones of which are by analysis of the cash flow Statement, the Profit and Loss Statement and by looking at Share values. cash flow Statement - cash flow Statement states where the cash received has come from and what the business has spent it on.
- fr: Marge brute d'auto-financement
- Profit Margin
- noun
- is a measure of profitability. It is calculated by finding the net profit as a percentage of the revenue.
- Example: This can be seen on the average profit margin of the product. Which is at 1.058% across the industry. The profit margin for a monopoly product such as Microsoft's Windows is as high as 10%. (Fame: 2004) Peugeot's 2.2% of profit margin can be considered relatively high .
- fr: Marge de profit
- Net profit
- adjective, noun
- the actual profit after working expenses not included in the calculation of gross profit have been paid.
- Example: Using the realistic forecasts, Emo-tion has a net profit margin of 16% for year 1 and 20% for year 2.
- fr: profit net
- Net loss
- adjective, noun
- A net loss is when expenses exceed the income or total revenue produced for a given period of time.
- Example: This company had a net loss of 3 million dollars since 2015.
- fr: perte nette
- Import-export
- nouns
- An import in the receiving country is an export from the sending country. Importation and exportation are the defining financial transactions of international trade.
- Example: Indagine sull'import\-export dei diritti d'autore in Italia , report published in 2004 by the ICE (Italian foreign trade institute), downloaded from Apart from the size of the market, and the readership's culture, there's also the fact that publishing follows the paths beaten by the general economic relations between countries.
- fr: import-export
- Account payable
- noun
- Accounts payable (AP) is an account within the general ledger that represents a company's obligation to pay off a short-term debt to its creditors or suppliers. Another common usage of "AP" refers to the business department or division that is responsible for making payments owed by the company to suppliers and other creditors.
- Example: According to a UN-HABITAT (2003) report, "the world's urban population is set to grow from 2.86 billion to 4.98 billion by 2030, of which high-income countries will account for only 28 million of the expected 2.12 billion growth".
- fr: compte à payer
- Account receivable
- noun
- Accounts Receivable (AR) is the proceeds or payment which the company will receive from its customers who have purchased its goods & services on credit. Usually the credit period is short ranging from few days to months or in some cases maybe a year.
- Example: Accounts receivable is an important aspect of a businesses' fundamental analysis. Accounts receivable is a current asset so it measures a company's liquidity or ability to cover short-term obligations without additional cash flows.
- fr: compte à recevoir
- Stock
- noun
- A stock (also known as equity) is a security that represents the ownership of a fraction of a corporation. This entitles the owner of the stock to a proportion of the corporation's assets and profits equal to how much stock they own. Units of stock are called "shares."
- Example: Passenger numbers, revenue and profits have all consistently increased year-on-year, the company was successfully floated on the Australian stock Exchange in December 2003 and has extensive expansion plans.
- fr: fond commun, part
- Broker
- noun
- a person who buys and sells goods or assets for others.
- Example: Iran offers Russia the chance to do what China does over North Korea: play up its own diplomatic influence by offering to broker a deal."
- fr: brokeur, courtier
- Dividend
- noun
- a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
- Example: Excluding the effect of special dividend, shareholders received a 6% higher fully year dividend than in 2003.
- fr: dividende
- 1. Annual Report
- adjective, noun
- An annual report is a comprehensive report on a company's activities throughout the preceding year. Annual reports are intended to give shareholders and other interested people information about the company's activities and financial performance. They may be considered as grey literature.
- Example: some companies prefer to shares their annual report, while other prefers to hide it from the public.
- fr: rapport annuel
- Arbitrage
- noun
- the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset
- fr: arbitrage
- Bid
- noun
- The bid is the amount of money a trader is willing to pay per share for a given stock. It’s balanced against the ask price, which is what a seller wants per share of that same stock, and the spread is the difference between those two prices.
- Example: The chosen suppliers were asked no questions about why their bid was so much cheaper than all the others.
- fr: offre
- Exchange
- noun
- A place in which different investments are traded. The most well-known exchanges in the United States are the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq.
- Example: NYSE is the biggest and most important exchange in the world.
- fr: bourse
