Economic Depreciation

A duopoly is a form of oligopoly where only two companies dominate the market.#

• An economist is an expert who studies the relationship between a society’s resources and its production or output, using a number of different indicators to predict future trends.

• The Harvard MBA indicator generates long-term market signals based on the proportion of new Harvard MBA graduates who take jobs in the securities markets.

• 10-K is a comprehensive report annually submitted by public companies on their financial performance.

• Form SEC 10-Q is a comprehensive statement of financial results filed quarterly by all public companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Abenomics is a set of economic policies championed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when he came to power for the second time in 2012.

• An absolute advantage is when a manufacturer can provide a greater quantity of a product or service for the same price or the same quantity at a lower price than its competitors.

• The addition rule for probabilities consists of two rules or formulas, one of which takes into account two mutually exclusive events, and the other two non-mutually exclusive events.

• Affiliation contracts are “take it or leave it” agreements where you have to accept or reject the contract as a whole.

• Litigation is the process by which the judge of the court resolves disputes between two parties.

• Adjusted EBITDA excludes non-recurring, non-recurring and non-recurring items that may distort EBITDA.

• APV is the net present value of a project or company if funded solely by equity plus the present value of the financial benefits.

• Adverse selection is when sellers have information that buyers do not, or vice versa, about some aspect of product quality.

• Aggregate demand measures the total demand for all finished goods and services produced in an economy.

• All goods produced at a certain price in a certain period represent the aggregate supply.

• The Alternative Depreciation System (ADS) is a method that allows taxpayers to calculate the amount of depreciation the IRS allows them to take on certain business assets.

• Analysis of variance, or ANOVA, is a statistical technique that separates observed data of variance into different components for use in additional tests.

• Anchor and Adjust is a cognitive heuristic where a person starts from an initial idea and adjusts their beliefs based on that starting point.

• Animal spirits come from the Latin spiritus animalis: “breath that awakens the human mind.” It was introduced by the British economist John Maynard Keynes in 1936.

• Applied economics is the use of ideas derived from economic theory and research to make better decisions and solve real problems.

• In the concept of arc elasticity, elasticity is measured along the arc of the demand curve on the graph.

• Arrow’s impossibility theorem is a social choice paradox illustrating the impossibility of an ideal voting structure.

• Asset protection refers to the strategies used to protect one’s wealth from taxation, confiscation or other losses.

• Asset valuation is the process of determining the fair market value of an asset.

• “Asymmetric information” is a term that refers to a situation where one party in a transaction has more information than the other.