SMALL BUSINESS DICTIONARY
The Yahoo Small Business Dictionary defines, explains, and cross-references more than 1,800 key small business words, phrases, acronyms, and concepts, covering topics including small business finance, management, sales, startup, exit strategy, and growth. To use the dictionary, type a word in the search box or click a letter to browse the listings alphabetically.
Small Business Dictionary terms starting with C
- Capex
- CFC
- CIF
- Capacity utilization rate
- Capital asset
- Capital budgeting
- Capital formation
- Capital goods
- Capital infusion
- Capital lease
- Capitalization
- Capitalized
- Cargo
- Carriage Paid To (CPT)
- Carve out
- Cash basis
- Cash conversion cycle
- Cash earnings
- Cash offer
- Cashier's check
- Casualty loss
- Certificate
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Chapter 11 Proceedings
- Charter
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Class action
- Clear title
- Closed-end mortgage
- Closing costs
- Collateral
- Commercial draft
- Commercial loan
- Commercial risk
- Common market
- Common-size analysis
- Company doctor
- Competence
- Completion
- Completion risk
- Completion undertaking
- Concession agreement
- Conglomerate
- Consignment
- Consolidated tax return
- Construction loan
- Consular Invoice
- Consumer credit
- Consumer goods
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Contingent pension liability
- Control
- Controller
- Cook the books
- Core competence
- Corporate acquisition
- Corporate finance
- Corporation
- Cost
- Cost center
- Cost of goods sold
- Cost of limited partner capital
- Cost Recovery Period
- CPI
- Credit
- Credit card
- Credit Rating Agencies
- Credit Terms
- Credit rating
- Credit union
- Creditor's committee
- Cumulative voting
- Current assets
- Customs Broker
- CBD
- CFR
- CPT
- Capital
- Capital budget
- Capital expenditures
- Capital gains tax
- Capital growth
- Capital investment
- Capital requirements
- Capitalization table
- Capitalized interest
- Carriage and Insurance Paid To (CIP)
- Cartel
- Cash
- Cash and equivalents
- Cash cow
- Cash in Advance
- Cash ratio
- Casualty-insurance
- Caveat emptor, caveat subscriptor
- Certified financial statements
- Chair of the board
- Changes in financial position
- Chattel Mortgage
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
- Claimant
- Clean opinion
- Closed corporation
- Closely held
- Coface
- Commercial bank
- Commercial invoice
- Commercial property
- Common-base-year analysis
- Common shares
- Company
- Comparative statements
- Competition
- Completion bonding
- Completion test
- Comprehensive Income
- Confirmed Letter of Credit
- Conglomerate merger
- Consolidated financial statement
- Consortium
- Constructive receipt
- Consumer Advisory Council (CAC)
- Consumer durables
- Consumer interest
- Contingent
- Contribution
- Controlled foreign corporation (CFC)
- Conventional project
- Cooperative
- C Corporation
- Corporate charter
- Corporate financial management
- Cosigner
- Cost and Freight (CFR)
- Cost of funds
- Cost of lease financing
- Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF)
- Counterpurchase
- Cramdown
- Credit bureau
- Credit history
- Credit Standards
- Creditworthiness
- Credit scoring
- Creditor
- Crown jewel
- Currency
- Current liabilities
- Customs union
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
Copyright © 2006, Campbell R. Harvey. All worldwide rights reserved. Do not reproduce without explicit permission.