Secured Loans
Financial leverage ratios
Related: capitalization ratios.
Financial market
An organized institutional structure or mechanism for creating and exchanging
financial assets.
Financial objectives
Objectives of a financial nature that the firm will strive to accomplish during the
period covered by its financial plan.
Financial plan
A financial blueprint for the financial future of a firm.
Financial planning
The process of evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm.
It includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of
these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing
future performance against that plan.
Financial press
That portion of the media devoted to reporting financial news.
Financial ratio
The result of dividing one financial statement item by another. Ratios help
analysts interpret financial statements by focussing on specific relationships.
Financial risk
The risk that the cash flow of an issuer will not be adequate to meet its financial
obligations. Also referred to as the additional risk that a firms stockholder bears
when the firm utilizes debt and equity.
Financial times (F-T)-actuaries indices
Used for listed equity securities. Share price indices for U.K. companies together
with earnings yield, price earnings ratio, and dividend yield. The denominator in
