Currency Protected Swap. See Diff Swap.

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A cost that was traditionally viewed as a fixed cost

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An interest rate swap is a deal between two investors. One has his money in a product paying a fixed rate of interest, such as a government bond; the other in a variable rate instrument that pays out in line with short-term interest rates. To hedge against future interest rate movements, the investors may agree to ‘swap’ the interest payments they get. For example, banks tend to have liabilities, such as deposits, that pay out at variable rates, but assets that receive a fixed return. That makes them vulnerable to rising short-term rates and so they may want to shield themselves by swapping their fixed interest for variable income. ‘Swaps’ are closely watched as an indicator of where markets think interest rates are heading.

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A process costing document that details all operating and cost information, shows the computation of cost per equivalent unit, and indicates cost assignment to goods produced during the period

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The use of all techniques that help an organization achieve its goals

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A management style that exists when top management makes most decisions and controls most activities of the organizational units from the company’s central headquarters

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There are many ways to measure a firm’s profitability. One of the more important ones is the gross margin. This compares gross profit (sales minus cost of goods sold) with the sales figure as a percentage.

So if a firm’s sales are £1m with cost of sales of £800,000, gross profit is £200,000 and the gross margin is 20% – i.e. (200,000/1m) x 100%. The higher the figure the better, as it indicates that the firm’s core activity is profitable.

However, by itself it is not the full picture. It excludes overheads. That’s why analysts often also calculate an operating profit margin too (operating profit is gross profit less selling, distribution and administration costs). They also usually look at net margin – operating profit after deducting finance costs. So there are many ways of expressing a ‘profit’.

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Anything to which costs attach or are related

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