Controlled Foreign Corporation – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Taxation

What is a Controlled Foreign Corporation?In the United States, a CFC is a foreign corporation in which US Shareholders own more than 50% of its value. The shareholders are required to report the foreign income earned, which is subject to US taxation.How Does a...

Corruption Perception Index – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Global Business, International Law & Relations

What is the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)?The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) ranks countries annually according to the corruption levels as seen by risk analysts, entrepreneurs, and normal citizens. The CPI looks into the corruption at public sectors and...

Cost Benefit Analysis – Explained

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

What is a Cost-Benefit Analysis?Cost benefits analysis refers to a technique used to measure the return against cost in both financial and environmental aspects. The technique provides a better analysis of the data under evaluation. The current economy is based on...

Countervailing Duties – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Global Business, International Law & Relations

What are Countervailing Duties (CVDs)?Countervailing duties, another term for anti-subsidy tax and offset tariff, is a tariff that a Government issues (pursuant to World Trade Organization rules) to offset the benefit that exporters receive from subsidies paid by the...

Cottage Industry – Explained

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

What is a Cottage Industry?A cottage industry generally refers to a business that produces goods on a small scale and in a decentralized manner. It may be that the manufacturing is done from a residential dwelling. The products are often handcrafted. Cottage...

Collateralized Loan Obligation – Explained

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

What is the Collateralized Loan Obligation?A CLO is a security that is backed up by the collateral of a set of debt instruments like bonds and mortgages. It is a credit derivative.How Does a Collateralized Loan Obligation Work?The issuer of the CDO mainly uses it in...

Commoditize (Product) – Explained

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

What is Commoditize?Commoditize is the process by which products become inseparable from competing offerings over a particular period. In general, commoditized products in certain categories are usually the same (or very similar) – with price as the only...

Commodity Credit Corporation – Explained

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

What is the Commodity Credit Corporation?The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is an agency of the government that supports, stabilizes and protects prices and farm income. It creates an even platform for supplying agricultural products. Besides this, it assists in...

Commodity Futures Modernization Act – Explained

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

What is the Commodity Futures Modernization Act?CFMA is a law in the US that was enacted in 2000 and deregulated under the derivatives of the OTC (over-the-counter). The law enables the “sophisticated parties to enter into trade contracts without inspection as...

Community Development Financial Institution – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Banking, Lending, and Credit Industry

Update Table of Contents What is the Community Development Financial institution?How Does a Community Development Financial institution Work?History of CDFIHow is CDFI Different?What CDFIs Do?Social impact of CDFIsSources of CDFIs investment What is the Community...