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 S
- SEC
- SOXS
- Salary freeze
- Salary Reduction Simplified Employee Pension Plan (SARSEP)
- Sales-type lease
- Savings bank
- Savings and loan association
- Scalability
- S Corporation
- Second round
- Secured debt
- Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Self-employed income
- Seller's market
- Separate tax returns
- Set of contracts perspective
- Sham
- Shareholder
- Shareholders' letter
- Shell corporation
- Shipping Documents
- Short-term debt
- Show stopper
- Significant influence
- Silver Parachutes
- Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan
- Social Security benefits
- Sole proprietorship
- Special Meeting
- Spot price
- Staggered board of directors
- Stale price
- Stalking horse bid
- Statement billing
- Statement of condition
- Statutory voting
- Stock bonus plan
- Stock buyback
- Stock Appreciation Rights
- Stock purchase plan
- Stock right
- Stockholder books
- Stockholder of record
- Stockholder's report
- Stop payment
- Strategic alliance
- Striking price
- Subchapter S
- Subordinated
- Subscription agreement
- Subsidized financing
- Success tax
- Sunk costs
- Super Majority
- Supervisory board
- Supply risk
- Surety
- Surplus management
- Synthetic Lease
- SED
- Salary
- Salary reduction plan
- Sales tax
- Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
- Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) 401(k) plan
- Savings rate
- Scorched-earth policy
- Seasoned datings
- Secondary Offering
- securities
- Seed money
- Self-employment tax
- Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses
- Serial entrepreneur
- Severance
- Share repurchase
- Shareholders' equity
- Shares
- Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)
- Shootout
- Short-term financial plan
- Signature loan
- Silent partner
- Simple IRA
- Small business policy
- Social Security Disability Income Insurance
- Solvency
- Spin-off
- Stagflation
- Stakeholders
- Stalking horse
- Standard deduction
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Statutory merger
- Stock
- Stock Appreciation Right (SAR)
- Stock certificate
- Stock option
- Stock repurchase
- Stockholder
- Stockholder equity
- Stockholder's equity
- Stockout
- Straight Bill of Lading
- Strike price
- Subaccount
- Subject to opinion
- Subordinated debt
- Subsidiary
- Substantially equal periodic payments (SEPP)
- Suicide pill
- Sunrise industries
- Supermajority
- Supplier credit
- Surcharge
- Surplus funds
- Surtax
- Systematic
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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