Bloomberg Terminal – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is the Bloomberg Terminal?A Bloomberg terminal is a computer system through which investors can access real-time financial data, messages, news, and analytics that help them make profitable decisions in financial transactions. Bloomberg terminal offers access to...

Border Adjustment Tax – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Taxation

What is a Border Adjustment Tax?Border adjustment tax is a value-added tax charged on imported goods while exported goods are exempted. This tax can also be referred to as a border-adjusted tax, destination tax or border tax adjustment. This tax is also known as a...

College Level Examination Program – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What is the College Level Examination Program (CLEP)?The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is a structured program offering standardized tests that allow students to earn college credit for passing the administered test. How does the College Level Examination...

Bond – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Bond?Bonds are financial instruments representing a loan usually by an investor to a company. The owners of bonds are called debtholders or creditors. Bonds details documents such as I.O.U between the lender and the borrower, the maturity date of the loan,...

Collective Investment Fund – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Collective Investment Fund?A Collective Investment Fund (CIF) is a fund made up of a group accounts or funds pooled and held by a trust or bank. CIF is otherwise called a collective investment trust (CIT), it is an investment instrument available to...

Classical Economics – Explanation

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is Classical Economics?Classical economics is a school of thought in economics that became popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. This school of thought had Spanish scholastics and French physiocrats as contributors.Other contributors include David Ricardo,...

Collateralized Mortgage Obligation – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation?A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) is structured security or mortgage-backed security that contains a set of mortgages structured and traded as an investment. A CMO is fixed income security that is designed based on...

Collateralized Debt Obligation – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Collateralized Debt Obligation?A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is asset-backed security sold to investors in the market. CDOs represent different assets pooled together and repackaged by banks to be sold to investors in the market. A collateralized...

Behavioral Economics – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior

What is Behavioral Economics?Behavioral Economics is a branch of economics that studies the impact of psychology on the decision-making traits of consumers. Seeking to connect psychology and economics, this field of economics studies how cognition, emotion, and...

Ordinary Income – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Taxation

What is Ordinary Income?An ordinary income is a pretax income earned by individuals and organizations which is taxable using ordinary rates. Examples of ordinary income are salaries, wages, interests earned on bonds, tips, commissions and other forms of income...