Finances FYI is a weekly series providing straightforward finance tips and best practices to help improve financial literacy. Listening to financial professionals can often feel like hearing a foreign ...

Finances FYI is a weekly series providing straightforward finance tips and best practices to help improve financial literacy. Financial vocabulary is often opaque and difficult to understand for those ...

Our society and financial industry are riddled with conventional definitions in financial terminology that are misunderstood. After nearly 30 years of financial advising experience, I take a bit of a ...

Vocabulary acts as the gateway to knowledge in any domain, including finance. A small vocabulary can limit your understanding of basic financial concepts such as interest rates, inflation and compound ...

Using the Google Keyword Planner, Avenues Financial analyzed every term in the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s “Glossary of Financial Terms” to discover which topics were the most ...

The world is awash in abbreviations, not least when it comes to investments. For retail investors, the plethora of abbreviations can be overwhelming and for many discouraging. Money.co.uk, a free ...

BestBrokers.com, an investment research platform, recently tracked the volume of queries for various financial terms made through ChatGPT. Some terms include "inflation," "equity" and "GDP". Money ...

Figuring out how to handle your money can be stressful enough without personal finance jargon getting in your way. Knowing the definitions behind words such as "amortization," "deductible," or "mutual ...

ALLOCATION - The assignment and reassignment of a cost or group of costs to one or more cost objectives based on a reasonable standard. Terms with assorted shades of meaning are cost reallocation, ...

Your cost of attendance is the total cost of college for the school year as calculated by colleges, including tuition, fees, books, supplies, transportation, food, housing, peronal expenses and ...