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 E
- EBIAT
- EBITD
- EBT
- ESOP
- Early Exercise (assignment)
- Early withdrawal penalty
- Earned surplus
- Earning asset
- Earnings
- Earnings before interest and, taxes (EBIT)
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)
- Economic assumptions
- Economic earnings
- Economic growth
- Economic income
- Economic order quantity (EOQ)
- Economic shock
- Economic union
- Economies of scale
- Economies of vertical integration
- Education IRA
- Effective annual yield
- Effective Interest Rate
- Effective tax rate
- Electronic funds transfer (EFT)
- Electronic Queriable Carrier
- Emerging markets
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- Employer matching contribution
- Endowment funds
- Enhancement
- Enterprise Value
- Environmental risk
- Equipment leasing partnership
- Equity carve out
- Equityholders
- Erosion
- Escrow
- Estate planning
- Estimated tax
- Evergreen
- Ex Works (EXW)
- Excess accumulation
- Executor
- Expropriation
- Exchange rate
- Excise tax
- Exercise
- Exercise settlement amount
- Expansion
- Expected future return
- Expected return on investment
- Explicit tax
- Export Commodity Control List
- Export financing interest
- Export management company
- Export Trading Company (ETC)
- Extension
- Extraordinary item
- EBIT
- EBITDA
- EFTPOS
- Early distribution
- Early withdrawal
- Earned income
- Earnest money
- Earning power
- Earnings before interest after taxes (EBIAT)
- Earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation (EBITD)
- Earnings before taxes (EBT)
- Economic dependence
- Economic exposure
- Economic growth rate
- Economic indicators
- Economic rents
- Economic surplus
- Economies of scale
- Economies of scope
- Edge corporations
- Effective annual interest rate
- Effective debt
- Effective net worth
- Electronic depository transfers
- Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
- Emergency fund
- Employee contribution
- Employee stock fund
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Endowment
- Engineering risk
- Enterprise
- Entrepreneur
- Equilibrium price
- Equity
- Equity claim
- Equivalent annual cost
- Escalator clause
- Escrow receipt
- Estate tax
- Ethics
- Evergreen credit
- Exception
- Excess contribution
- Expatriate
- Exchange of assets
- Exchange of stock
- Exclusionary self-tender
- Exercise price
- Exercising the option
- Expected future cash flows
- Expected return
- Expensed
- Exploding term sheet
- Export-import Bank (Ex-IM Bank)
- Export License
- Export Management Consultant (EMC)
- Exports
- Extinguish
- Extra or special dividends
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.