Match Each Definition with the Correct Term Below

question 145

Short Answer

Match each definition with the correct term below.

-Audit
A.The group of people who are responsible for ensuring that a company meets its goals of profitability and liquidity.
B.A unit of ownership in a corporation.
C.The inflows and outflows of cash into and out of a business.
D.An information system that measures,processes,and communicates financial information about an economic entity.
E.A set of practices that has been developed to provide guidelines for financial accounting.
F.The value of one currency in terms of another.
G.The government body that regulates the issuing,buying,and selling of stocks in the United States.
H.The ability to earn enough income to attract and hold investment capital.
I.The oversight of a corporation's management and ethics by its board of directors.
J.The accumulated earnings generated by a business's income-producing activities less amounts that have been paid out to the stockholder's.
k.KEconomic events that affect a business's financial position.
L.An examination of a company's financial statements and the accounting systems,controls,and records that produced them.

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Definitions:

Optimal Weights

The proportion of each asset in a portfolio that maximizes its expected return for a given level of risk.

Expected Rate

Typically refers to the rate of return anticipated on an investment or project, based on projections or historical data.

Nominal Sharpe Ratio

A measure of risk-adjusted performance that indicates the average return minus the risk-free return divided by the standard deviation of return on an investment.

Nominal Return

The amount of profit or loss on an investment before adjusting for inflation.