English Language Tests-Intermediate level''''s archiveBusiness buzzwords: Compensation doc

English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive
Business buzzwords: Compensation
1. A golden is an exceptional compensation
package offered by an acquiring company to the top
executives of the company being bought, meant to keep
them interested in retaining their positions; but it may not
be in the best interests of shareholders.

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2. The policy combines commercial discretion with
legally enforceable mandatory controls; it is required in the
operation of many financial services organizations and is,
therefore, perhaps as significant to the financial world as
Bell-LaPadula's policies are to the military.

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3. In the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved
revenue of $649.4 million and earnings per share were
$0.30; the consensus estimates were for $655 million in
revenue and $0.29 in eps, which means that for the
quarter Adobe missed on the line but more than
made it up by controlling expenses.

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4. Securities held by a brokerage firm that meet specific
qualifications are used as collateral for securing brokers'
loans or customers' margin positions; they are held in
safekeeping for clients of a broker/dealer or for the
broker/dealer itself in a physical location known as the
'active '.

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5. The Commission's Order finds that various NYSE
specialists repeatedly engaged in unlawful proprietary
trading, which took various forms, including the
firms' dealer accounts between customer orders and
trading ahead for their dealer accounts in front of
executable agency orders on the same side of the market.

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6. A economy has left many private golf clubs
desperate for new members; stagnant growth of golf
participation during the past five years, a surplus of private
courses and the recession are prime reasons this is one of
the best buyer's markets for private golf in recent memory.

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7. The inter-relation of economic empire , both in
terms of control over overseas markets and enterprises, is
closely linked to domestic policies: tax cuts for the
corporation and rich increase capital for export, and
privatized social security adds billions in profits for Wall
Street investment banks.

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8. Given that we approach the holiday season and that
ANZ has potential further upside, a trading strategy
referred to as may be an appropriate strategy for
this stock; this option strategy involves buying a call option
and selling two call options all with different strike prices.

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9. This book highlights advanced technologies that might
help you make decisions on when to buy or sell stocks,
track their ups and downs, and analyze your portfolio,
while you're at it; but don't forget, though they might give a
bit of techie buzz to investing, there are limits to what

science can do to help investors.

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10. up is a process where the company's assets will
be gathered and will be used to pay all debts, and the
balance for the cost of this process will be distributed
among the shareholders according to their interests in the
company.

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