Glossary


The Funding Agent Finance Dictionary is designed to help UK business owners cut through financial jargon. Whether you’re exploring working capital loans, merchant cash advances, or invoice finance, our glossary provides clear definitions to support better decisions about funding your business.

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a

Average Return
Autumn Budget
Association Of Convenience Stores
Asset-based Lending
Asset Turnover Ratio
Asset Coverage Ratio
Asset Allocation
Asset
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Application Service Provider (ASP)

b

Buyout
Buy-To-Let Mortgage
Buy Rate
Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
Business-To-Business (B2B)
Business Valuation
Business Plan
Business Model
Business Cycle
Business Asset Rollover Relief

c

Customs Value
Customer Relations Management (CRM)
Current Ratio
Current Liabilities
Current Assets
Ct600
Crowdfunding
Cross Rate
Credit Union
Credit Score

d

Due Diligence
Driver And Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
Down Payment
Dividend
Diversification
Discount Rate
Discount Mortgage
Direct Cost
Derivative
Depreciation

e

Export
Exponential Moving Average (Ema)
Expense Ratio
Exit Strategy
Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC)
Employer Payment Summary (EPS)
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Exchange Rate
Equity
Environmental Stewardship (ES)

f

Fundamental Analysis
Full Payment Submission (FPS)
FTSE 100 Index
Free Market
Franchise
Forward Contract
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
Food Safety And Hygiene Certificate
Fixed Income
Fixed Cost

g

Guarantor
Growth Stocks
Gross Profit
Gross National Product
Gross Margin
Gross Income
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Greenwashing
Green Finance
Government Bond

h

Human Resources (HR)
Hotel Proprietors Act 1956
Horizontal Integration
Holding Period
Holding company
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
High-frequency trading (HFT)
High Street Bank
Hedge fund

i

IPO Underwriter
Investor Risk Profile
Investment Horizon
Inventory Turnover
Intrinsic Value
Intervention Rate
Internal Rate Of Return (IRR)
Interest Rate
Interest Coverage Ratio
Intellectual Property Office

j

Just In Time (JIT)
Just in Case (JIC)
Junk Bond
Joint Venture
Joint Account
Job Costing
J-Curve Effect

k

Know Your Customer (KYC)
Kickback
Keynesian Economics
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Keiretsu

l

Long-term Liabilities
Long Position
London Stock Exchange
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Liquidity Ratios
Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)
Liquidity
Liquidation Value
Line of Credit
Limited Liability Company (LLC)

m

Mutual Fund
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Month To Date (MTD)
Month Over Month (MoM)
Money Market
Money Flow
Mission
Mergers And Acquisitions (M&A)
Marketing Strategy
Market Value

n

Notional Value
Non-performing loan (NPL)
Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA)
Non-current Liabilities
Non-current Assets
Non-Amortisation Loan
Nominal Interest Rate
Net Present Value (NPV)
Net Operating Income (NOI)
Net Loss

o

Overdraft
Over-the-counter (OTC)
Outsourcing
Organisational Structure
Options
Operational Effectiveness
Operating Margin
Operating Lease
Operating Income
Operating Costs

p

Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA)
Pubs Code
Public Relations (PR)
Profit Margin
Profit
Private Equity
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR)
Principal
Pricing Strategy
Price-earnings Ratio (P/E)

q

Quote
Quick Ratio
Quick Assets
Quarterly Report
Quarter To Date (QTD)
Quarter Over Quarter (QoQ)
Quality Of Earnings
Quality Control
Quick Business Finance

r

Roth IRA
Risk Management
Revolving Credit
Revenue Recognition
Revenue
Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
Return on Equity (ROE)
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
Return on Assets (ROA)

s

Supply Chain
Subcontractor
Structures and Buildings Allowance (SBA)
Stock split
Stock Market
Stock
Startup
Stakeholder Value
Spring Statement
Sole Trader

t

Turnover
Triple Bottom Line
Treasury Bonds
Trading Platform
Trademark
Total Shareholder Return (TSR)
Total Debt To Total Assets Ratio
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
Time Value Of Money (TVM)
The Highway Code

u

Utility Stocks
Uptick Rule
Unsecured Loan
Unlimited Liability
Unit Trust
Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)
Underwriting
UK Export Finance

v

Voluntary Liquidation
Volatility
Vision
Vertical Integration
Variable Cost
Variable Annuity
Value-added tax (VAT)
Value Proposition
Value Chain
Value at Risk (VaR)

w

Writing Down Allowances (WDA)
Write Down
Working Capital
Withdrawal
Wealth Management
Warrant
Wall Street

x

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y

Year-over-Year (YOY)
Year To Date

z

Zoning Laws
Zero-sum Game
Zero-Coupon Bond