My name is Halley Roxane Toussaint, I’ve been studying Social Science for 2 years. I create this glossary for anybody that would like to learn English terms in Finance and this glossary also helped me improve my English because I’ve learnt terms too. This glossary contains finance terms, parts of speech, definitions in sentence case from Google Search using "define" + the term, text-to-speech pronunciation models, images from Wikimedia Commons, automatic translations to French, and authentic example sentences from the Lextutor Concordancer.
academic
adjective
Relating to education and scholarship.
Example: It’s possible that obsidian has received too much ACADEMIC attention.
en: Académique
aims
noun
A purpose or intention; a desired outcome.
Example: The extermination of pests is not included in the AIMS.
en: Objectif
asset
noun
Property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
Example: They used to manage their ASSET as banks did, whereas, they have changed their investment policies recently in turning to increase their equity holdings.
en: Action
bond
noun
Bonds are units of corporate debt issued by companies and securitized as tradeable assets. A bond is referred to as a fixed-income instrument since bonds traditionally paid a fixed interest rate (coupon) to debtholders. Variable or floating interest rates are also now quite common.
Example: Furthermore, 95 per cent of its capital had been liabilities and when the Russian BOND market collapsed as consequence of a threatening bankruptcy of Russia, the prices of the BONDs hold by LTCM differed further away from the fair historical values computed by complex computer programs.
en: Caution
capital
noun
Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
Example: Firms pay income to households---wages for labour services, interest for the use of CAPITAL and rent for the use of land.
en: Capitale
corporation
noun
A corporation is a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners. Under the law, corporations possess many of the same rights and responsibilities as individuals. They can enter contracts, loan and borrow money, sue and be sued, hire employees, own assets, and pay taxes.
Example: They may depend on the media globally for example the Financial Time (FT), British Broadcasting CORPORATION (BBC) or others and some critics or scholars who familiar with particular area.
en: Société
debt
noun
Debt is defined as an amount owed for funds borrowed. The lender agrees to lend funds to the borrower upon a promise by the borrower to pay interest on the debt, usually with the interest to be paid at regular intervals.
Example: Suppliers are concerned about payment of DEBT of company and availability of liquidity.
en: Dette
field
noun
A particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest.
Example: He has built up knowledge and experience in this FIELD.
en: Champ
firm
Adjectif
A firm is a for-profit business, usually formed as a partnership that provides professional services, such as legal or accounting services. The theory of the firm posits that firms exist to maximize profits.
Example: My friends and I should start a FIRM.
en: Entreprise
interpretive
adjectif
Relating to or providing an interpretation.
Example: I have decided to use both informative and INTERPRETIVE kinds of label.
en: Interprétive
investment
noun
The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
Example: The raise in import of more capital intensive goods including INVESTMENT and intermediate goods may be conducive to economic growth.
en: Investissement
loan
noun
A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.
Example: A bank LOAN also increased the overall cash flow available for the company's use.
en: Prêt
management
noun
The act or art of managing : the conducting or supervising of something (such as a business) Business improved under the management of new owners.
Example: Financial control is used as MANAGEMENT controls, the definition of budgetary.
en: Management
maximizing
verb
Make as large or great as possible.
Example: This role has four key components; MAXIMIZING access to health care, income, material and social resources for health and minimizing the costs of health promotion 22.
en: Maximiser
portfolio
noun
A portfolio is a collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash, and cash equivalents, including closed-end funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). People generally believe that stocks, bonds, and cash comprise the core of a portfolio.
Example: These guidelines have been developed as a result of analyses of historical fraudulent behaviour in the PORTFOLIO.
en: Portefeuille
qualitative
adjectif
The qualitative approach to management uses the views of experts to create business performance forecasts. These experts base their opinions on the results of a certain action, or on their personal experiences and education.
Example: Since QUALITATIVE research differs so greatly from quantitative study, researchers have developed non-quantitative criteria for assessing reliability and validity.
en: Qualitative
quantitative
adjectif
Quantitative management makes use of computers and mathematical techniques to sift through financial statistics to select stocks. Managers observe historical quantitative relationships and incorporate these relationships into “models,” which help them choose their stocks.
Example: The birth of the product is similar to the identification by a company of the need to make changes and the QUANTITATIVE and qualitative nature of evaluation is very similar to that observed in the market place.
en: Quantitative
real estate
noun
A company that buys, sells, and rents properties: ... run/own/manage a real estate company They run a real estate company in Las Vegas and are currently very worried about the state of the housing market.
Example: Cited in Landau and Condit, Rise of the New York Skyscraper , p.354 An insatiable desire for prestige among affluent businessmen, who wished to exhibit their business acumen and prosperity using an icon of REAL ESTATE, escalated during this epoch.
en: Immobilier
stock
noun
The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares.
Example: Hong Kong dollar and STOCK MARKET is vulnerable from some external event.
en: Action
value
noun
The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
Example: The VALUE of bitcoin has increased since 2015.
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