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 R
- ROA
- ROE
- Rate of interest
- Rate of return ratios
- Raw material
- Reachback
- Real capital
- Real estate appraisal
- Real income
- Recalculation method
- Receipts
- Receivables turnover ratio
- Receiver
- Recession
- Reciprocal marketing agreement
- Record Owner
- Recovery
- Reflation
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Reinstatement
- Remit
- Rental lease
- Reorganization
- Replacement Chain
- Replacement cost accounting
- Replacement cycle
- Replacement-chain problem
- Reproducible assets
- Rescind
- Research and development limited partnership
- Reserve account
- Residential property
- Residual cover
- Residual value
- Restrictive covenants
- Restructuring
- Retail credit
- Retail price
- Retained earnings statement
- Retirement Protection Act of 1994
- Return on assets (ROA)
- Return on equity (ROE)
- Return on total assets
- Revenue sharing
- Reverse mortgage
- Revolving credit agreement
- Right
- Right of redemption
- Rights Agreement (aka "Poison Pill")
- Risk
- Riskless arbitrage
- Risk profile
- Risk-reward ratio
- Rollover IRA
- Royalty
- ROCE
- Rainmaker
- Rate of return
- Rational expectations
- Raw material supply agreement
- Real assets
- Real estate
- Real estate broker
- Real property
- Recapture
- Receivables balance fractions
- Received for Shipment Bill of Lading
- Receiver's certificate
- Recharacterization
- Recordholder
- Recourse
- Refinancing
- Registered company
- Reimbursement
- Rejection
- Rent
- Rent control
- Repatriation
- Replacement cost
- Replacement cost insurance
- Replacement value
- Representations
- Required minimum distribution (RMD)
- Research and development (R"D)
- Reserve
- Residential mortgage
- Residual assets
- Residual method
- Restricted surplus
- Restrictive endorsement
- Resyndication limited partnership
- Retail investors
- Retained earnings
- Retention rate
- Return of capital
- Return on capital employed (ROCE)
- Return on sales
- Revenues
- Reverse leveraged buyout
- Reverse stock split
- Revolving line of credit
- Right of first refusal
- Right of rescission
- Rights Offering
- Risk classes
- Risk-neutral
- Risk-return tradeoff
- Risk transfer
- Roth IRA
- Rubber check
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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