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Capital

Cash and physical assets owned by an individual or company.

Capital

1. The plant and equipment used in production. 2. One of the main primary factors, the availability of which contributes to the productivity of labor, comparative advantage, and the pattern of international trade. 3. A stock of financial assets.

Capital

Money invested in a firm.

Capital

In the context of mortgages, capital describes the original sum borrowed as distinct from interest required on that loan. A repayment mortgage involves repayment of a little of the capital interest each month.

Capital

The overall assets of an individual less liabilities.Money injected into a company by way of share capital and loan capital plus retained earnings.



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Capital expenditure

Capital expenditure

The cost of making improvements on a property.


Capitalized

Capitalized

Recorded in asset accounts and then depreciated or amortized, as is appropriate for expenditures for items with useful lives longer than one year.


Capital intensity

Capital intensity

A measure of the relative use of capital, compared to other factors such as labor, in a production process. Often measured by the ratio of capital to labor, or by the share of capital in factor payments.


Capital account

Capital account

1. (Current definition) Since sometime in the 1990s, "capital account" refers to a minor component of international transactions, involving unilateral transfers of ownership of property. The common definition, below, describes what is now called the financial account. 2. (Common definition) A country's international transactions arising from changes in holdings of real and financial capital assets (but not income on them, which is in the current account). Includes FDI, plus changes in private and official holdings of stocks, bonds, loans, bank accounts, and currencies. 3. (Bretton-Woods definition) Same as common definition except excluding official reserve transactions. This definition was used under the Bretton Woods System of pegged exchange rates, but is less meaningful under floating exchange rates.


Cost of limited partner capital

Cost of limited partner capital

The discount rate that equates the after-tax inflows with outflows for capital raised from limited partners.


Further Suggestions

Capital market efficiency
Capital flow
Capital augmenting
Incremental cost of capital
Capital gains distribution
Capital turnover
Capital appreciation or depreciation
Capital-saving
"Soft" capital rationing
Short term capital gain
Capital account
Capital market
Capital stock
Working capital management
loan capital
Balance on capital account
Cost of capital
capital allowance
Leveraged recapitalization
Perfectly mobile capital
Net working capital
Capital Fulcrum Point
capital structure
Portfolio capital
Capital account deficit


 
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