A COMPLEX OPTION that grants the buyer a payoff equal to the difference between an average price on an UNDERLYING market reference and a predefined STRIKE PRICE . See also […]
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AVERAGE PRICE PER SHARE
The way cost is decided using cost of shares and the numbe of them that are held. Refer to average down and average up.
AVERAGE PRICES
Such as are computed on all the prices of any articles sold within a certain period or district.
AVERAGE PRODUCT
The amout of product compared to the amount input to make it.
AVERAGE PROPENSITY TO CONSUME
The amount after tax that is spent on consumer goods . This amount varies depending on income level.
AVERAGE PROPENSITY TO SAVE
The amount after tax that is not spent on consumer goods . This varies depending on the income level.
AVERAGE RATE OF RETURN
The way to appraise investments to predict the return. The cash flows is divided by the number of years of the investment.
AVERAGE SEMIPRIVATE RATE
The amount charged for semiprivate rooms in hospitals.
AVERAGE SETTLEMENT PERIOD
The time a company takes to pay creditors. This term also applies to debtors. The sales, days, and creditors are used to get this amount.
AVERAGE TOTAL ASSETS
When the assets of the previous year are compared to the current year . This gives an average amount of assets a company owns.
AVERAGE TOTAL COSTS (ATC)
All costs for manufacturing divided by the units produced.
AVERAGE UP
When an investor buys long position shares to reduce prices and make more profit. Compare this term to average down and dollar cost averaging.
AVERAGE VARIABLE COST
Any nonfixed costs used to create a product. They can be labor or electricity just to name two.
AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE
The amount the insured benefits available weekly.
AVERAGE WITHOUT PERCENTAGE
The broadest marine coverage that pays partial or total loss. The amount is paid in full no matter the average.
AVERAGE WORKING CAPITAL
The capital rate calculated by using the current and previous years working capital .
AVERAGE WORST-CASE RISK EXPOSURE
POTENTIAL EXPOSURE of an OVERTHECOUNTER DERIVATIVE that is based on the average maturity of the transaction and the worstcase movement of the UNDERLYING market reference. See also AVERAGE EXPECTED RISK […]
AVERAGING
1. making a portfolio by investing fixed amounts at fixed intervals. This is done in different securities that are bought when they are cheapest and sold when they are expensive. […]
AVERIA
In old English law . This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen, etc.
AVERIA CARRNCSE
Beasts of the plow
AVERIIG CAPTIS IN WITHERNAM
A writ granted to one whose cattle were unlawfully distrained by another and driven out of the county in which they were taken, so that they could not be replevied […]
AVERMENT
In pleading. A positive statement of facts , in opposition to argument or inference. 1 Chit. PI. 320. In old pleading. An offer to prove a plea, or pleading. The […]
AVERRARE
In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants , to carry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses.
AVERSIO
In the civil law . An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk. Letting a house altogether, instead of in chambers. […]
AVERSIO PERICNLI
A turning away of peril. Used of a contract of insurance . 3 Kent, Comm. 263.