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| Capital To Risk Asset Ratio (CRAR) |
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Capital To Risk Asset Ratio (CRAR) is one of the most widely used analytical measures of bank capital adequacy and a tool for controlling bank risk. Since risk assets are always less than total assets, the capital/risk asset ratio is naturally higher than the capital/total asset ratio for any given computational period. |
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| Cash Flow Statement |
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A financial statement which reports the inflows and outflows of cash for a particular period for the operating, investing and financing activities undertaken by an agency or the Government as a whole. |
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| Classification of Assets |
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The process of identifying a loan that is not being repaid on schedule and designating it as one of three types of troubled loans: substandard, doubtful or loss. An asset classified substandard has at least one well-defined weakness such as being under capitalized, or not protected by the paying capacity of the borrower or the worth of the pledged collateral. |
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| Cluster |
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Cluster is when several enterprises entered into a formal, continuing association in order to pursue some activities in common and derive maximum benefit from it. These shared activities may include: Research, Development, and Innovation; Marketing, promotion etc. |
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| Cognitive science |
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Cognitive science is the study of thinking, knowing, and intellectual reaction; of the process of comprehending, judging, remembering, and reasoning; and of the acquisition, organization, and uses of Knowledge. |
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| Combination |
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one of the four basic Knowledge management processes, is a technique for combining items of Explicit knowledge to form new explicit knowledge. |
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| Competitive advantage |
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Competitive advantage is gained by exploiting the unique blend of activities, assets, market conditions, and relationships that differentiates an organization from its competitors |
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| Competitive intelligence |
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Competitive Intelligence is defined as business intelligence focusing on the external competitive environment. Organizations use competitive intelligence to compare themselves to other organizations, which enables them to make informed decisions. Most firms today realize the importance of knowing what their competitors are doing, and the information gathered allows organizations to realize their strengths and weaknesses. With the right amount of information, organizations can avoid unpleasant surprises by anticipating competitors’ moves and decreasing response time. |
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| Competitor intelligence |
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Competitor intelligence is a subdivision of Business intelligence that concerns the current and proposed business activities of competitors. |
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| Competitor profiling |
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Competitor profiling is the systematic Analysis of competitors in order to learn from their strengths and exploit their weaknesses. The knowledge acquired is used to gain and maintain a Competitive advantage. |
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| Confirmation bias |
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Confirmation bias is a phenomenon where decision makers have been shown to actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or underweight evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis. |
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| Consortium |
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a group of corporations, financial institutions or other companies that join forces to achieve a mutually agreed upon objective, requiring cooperation and pooling of resources. |
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| Contingency planning |
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The development of a management plan that uses alternative strategies to ensure project success if specified risk events occur. |
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| Contribution |
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In operational cost analysis, total revenue less total variable cost. |
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| Contribution Margin (CM) |
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Contribution Margin (CM) is the difference between sales and the variable costs of the product or service, also called marginal income. It is the amount of money available to cover fixed costs and generate profits. |
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| Corporate governance |
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Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. |
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| Corporate Objectives: |
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Corporate Objectives can be divided in different categories or priorities. Get ready for the "Introduction of the Euro" is an objective that is |
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| Corporate Performance Management |
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Describes the methodology, metrics, processes and systems used to monitor and manage the business performance. This invokes most of the time a the deployment of a BI Product. Enterprises that effectively implement Corporate Performance Management solutions will outperform their industry peers. CPM incorporates data from outside the system or organization into a single cohesive and ongoing system. It is essential to have a single system in order to apply the rules/updates consequent through the whole process. |
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| Corporatization |
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Corporatization is a form of economic reform which takes services from the direct control of the government, and places them in the control of government-owned corporations. This is often seen as a step towards full-scale privatization. |
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| Cost |
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In economics, business, and accounting, a cost is a price paid, or otherwise associated with, a commercial event or economic transaction. |
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| Cost Volume Profit Analysis (CVPA) |
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Cost Volume Profit Analysis examines the behavior of total revenue, total costs and profit as changes occur in the output level, selling price and variable costs per unit or fixed costs. |
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| Counter trade |
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Counter trade is the exchange of goods or services that are paid for in whole or in part by the transfer of other goods or services. |
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| Counter-intelligence |
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Information gathered and activities conducted to preventing the enemy from obtaining secret information of the organizations or government. |
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| Critical Success Factor (CSF) |
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Critical Success Factor (CSF) is the combination of key strategies and activities that must be achieved for a company or a project to successfully meet its objectives. |
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| Current ratio |
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The current ratio is a comparison of a firm's current assets to its current liabilities. The current ratio is an indication of a firm's market liquidity and ability to meet short-term debt obligations. Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry, but a current ratio between 1 and 1.5 is considered standard. If a company's current assets are in this range, then it is generally considered to have good short-term financial strength. If current liabilities exceed current assets (the current ratio is below 1), then the company may have problems meeting its short-term obligations. If the current ratio is too high, then the company may not be efficiently utilizing its current assets.
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| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) |
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Customer relationship management (CRM) covers methods and technologies used by companies to manage their relationships with clients. Information stored on existing customers (and potential customers) is analyzed and used to this end. Automated CRM processes are often used to generate automatic personalized marketing based on the customer information stored in the system.
The term covers several aspects of customer relationships, such as: campaign management
systems, call centers, interactive voice response systems, e-commerce, point-of-sale, and
sales automation. The intention is to understand and anticipate the needs, preferences, and
buying habits of existing and potential customers. To that end, it usually employs some form
of Data mining designed to exploit large customer databases.
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