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• Compound interest is a process in which interest is credited to the existing principal as well as to the interest already paid.

• Event research or event history analysis examines the impact of an event on the financial performance of a security, such as a company’s stock.

• The Piotrosky scale is a scale from zero to nine, which includes nine factors that indicate the financial stability of the company.

• 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.

• The adjusted closing price changes the closing price of a share to reflect the value of that share after accounting for any corporate action.

• 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.

Allocation is the systematic distribution of business resources between different entities and over time.#

• Alphabet shares are shares of a publicly traded company that have different classes of shares, commonly referred to as “.A shares” or “.B shares”.

• 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.

• Anti-dilution clauses are clauses built into convertible preferred shares to help protect investors from their investments that could lose value.

• The arithmetic mean is a simple average or the sum of a series of numbers divided by the number of this series of numbers.

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

• Par value is the price at which the bond was issued, also known as its face value.

• Autocorrelation is the degree of similarity between a given time series and its lagged version over successive time intervals.

• Autoregressive models predict future values based on past values.

• BAT stock is an acronym used to refer to China’s top three technology companies: Baidu Inc., Alibaba Holding Group Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

• A backstop is the act of providing extreme assistance or security in an offering of securities to an unsubscribed portion of the shares.

• Backtesting evaluates the viability of a trading strategy or pricing model by discovering how it would perform retrospectively using historical data.

• Basic earnings per share (EPS) tells investors how much of a firm’s net income comes from each common share.

• The basic materials sector consists of companies involved in the exploration, development and processing of raw materials.

• Bearer shares are unregistered equity securities owned by the owner of the physical shares documents. The issuing company pays dividends to holders of physical coupons.

• A bell curve is a graph depicting a normal distribution that has a bell-like shape.

• Bioremediation is a branch of biotechnology that uses living organisms such as microbes and bacteria to decontaminate affected areas.