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 I
- IPO
- Impaired capital
- Implicit Bankruptcy Costs
- Import/export letters of credit
- Incentive Stock Option (ISO)
- Income property
- Income tax
- Incorporation
- Incorporated joint venture
- Indemnification
- Independent auditor
- Indirect quote
- Individual Retirement Account (IRA) rollover
- Inductive reasoning
- Industry
- Inflation accounting
- Inflexible expenses
- Infrastructure risk
- Informational efficiency
- Inheritance tax return
- Initial public offering (IPO)
- Inland Bill of Lading
- In-service withdrawal
- Insider trading
- Insider Trading & Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988(ITSFEA)
- Insolvency risk
- Inspector(s) of Election
- Installment payments
- Institutional investors
- Insurance
- Insurance broker
- Insurance dividend
- Insurance premium
- Insured
- Intangible asset
- Interest
- Interest-only loan
- Interest rate
- Interest rate cap
- Interest rate floor
- Interim statement
- Internal finance
- Internal measure
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- International monetary system
- Intracompany trade
- Inventory
- Inventory loan
- Inverse order
- Investment
- Investment advisory service
- Investment bank
- Investment climate
- Investment history
- Investment management
- Investment objective
- Investor
- Invoice
- Invoice date
- IPO Spinning
- Irrevocable letter of credit
- Itemized deduction
- Illiquid
- Impaired credit
- Implicit tax
- In-and-out trader
- Income limited partnership
- Income statement (statement of operations)
- Incontestability clause
- Incoterms
- Indemnify
- Indemnity
- Indirect costs of financial distress
- Indirect terms
- Individual tax return
- Industrial production
- Inflation
- Inflation-escalator clause
- Information memorandum
- Information services
- Infrastructure
- Initial filing
- Initial Public Offering Spinning
- Input-output tables
- Insider information
- Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984
- Insiders
- Insolvent
- Inspector's or Judge's Certificate
- Installment sale
- Insurable interest
- Insurance agent
- Insurance claim
- Insurance policy
- Insurance settlement
- Insured plans
- Intellectual property rights
- Interest in Arrears
- Interest payments
- Interest rate agreement
- Interest rate ceiling
- Interest-sensitive insurance policy
- Internal auditor
- Internal growth rate
- Internal Revenue Code
- International market
- International Organization for Standardization
- Intrinsic value of a firm
- Inventory financing
- Inventory turnover
- Inverted yield curve
- Investment adviser
- Investment agreement
- Investment certificate
- Investment decisions
- Investment income
- Investment manager
- Investment Tax Credit
- Investor relations
- Invoice billing
- Invoice price
- IRA/Keogh accounts
- Irrevocable trust
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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