Alpha (Financial Analysis) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles

What does Alpha Represent? Alpha is a term that measures the active return of an investment, it is the excess return or abnormal return that an investment yields. Alpha gauges the ability of an investment to outperform the market or beat its edge. It measures the...

Disclosure Statement (IRAs) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles

Update Table of Contents What is a Disclosure Statement for an IRA?How does an IRA Disclosure Statement Work? Disclosure Statement and Retirement AccountsDisclosure Statement and LoansAcademic Research on Disclosure Statements What is a Disclosure Statement for an...

Bitcoin Mining – Explained

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

What is Bitcoin Mining?In Bitcoin network, bitcoin mining is a method of processing and securing bitcoin transactions using a set of specialized computers. Processing bitcoin transactions for guarantee their security is often complex because it entails solving...

Socialism (Economics) – Explained

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

What is Socialism?Socialism is an economic theory pursuant to which members of a society own collectively all means of production, distribution, and exchange. Collective ownership is otherwise called public or common ownership. What is an Absolute Socialist System?In...

Social Media Marketing – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | SEO, Social Media, Direct Marketing

What is Social Media Marketing?Social media marketing (SMM) refers to the act of marketing a company’s products and services through social networks, websites and social media platforms. All forms of advertising done on the internet using social techniques and...

Social Enterprise – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Ethics & Social Responsibility

What is Social Enterprise?A social enterprise refers to a business or a commercial organization whose main objectives are social and environmental impacts. A social enterprise generates income by maximizing all potentials that will have positive social and...

Slush Fund – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles

What is a Slush Fund?A slush fund refers to a sum of money reserved for specific purposes in a business. Often times, slush funds are sum of money not accounted for, these funds are kept as a reserve and used for personal gains and illicit or illegitimate purposes....

Sampling Distribution – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is a Sampling Distribution?A sampling distribution refers to a probability distribution that reflects that statistical results obtained from samples from a population can have different outcomes. This type of probability distribution is the distribution of a...

S-Curve – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

What is an S-Curve?The S curve refers to the shape of charted data on a line graph that represents the growth of a business. The plotted line has a distinct S shape.  How is the S-Curve Used? The S curve is used to describe, visualize, and predict the growth of a...

Run Rate – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles

What is a Run Rate?The run rate is a concept that describes the financial performance of a company by using the present financial information to predict what future performance would look like. The run rate gauges what the performance of a company would be in terms of...