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 O
- Obligation
- Off-balance-sheet financing
- Oligopoly
- One-share-one-vote rule
- Open-end credit
- Open-end mortgage
- Operating cash flow
- Operating expenses
- Operating lease
- Operating profit (or loss)
- Operating rate
- Operating in the red
- Opex
- Option holder
- Oral contract
- Ordinary interest
- Organization chart
- Other income
- Other sources
- Outside director
- Overcapitalization
- Overdraft checking account
- Overhead
- Obligor
- Offerings
- Oligopsony
- Open contracts
- Open-end lease
- Operating Assets
- Operating cycle
- Operating exposure
- Operating leverage
- Operating profit margin
- Operating ratios
- Operating risk
- Opportunity costs
- Options contract
- Ordinary income
- Organic growth
- Origination
- Other long-term liabilities
- Outlays
- Outsourcing
- Overdraft
- Overfunded pension plan
- Overwithholding
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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