Definition: Shell Company implies a fictitious company with no active business operations. These companies are formed with an aim of achieving specific business objectives which may or may not be legitimate. Such companies do not have a physical existence, as they exist only on paper. Meaning that it has no office, no staff, no assets, but just a bank account, to carry out … [Read more...] about Shell Company
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Core Banking
Definition: Core Banking is an umbrella term that refers to the services rendered by a range of networked bank branches. It is a back-end system through which banking transactions related to deposit, loans, and credit can be processed daily across different bank branches, and updates are recorded and reflected immediately. Core banking is a business carried out by the bank with … [Read more...] about Core Banking
Sweat Equity Shares
Definition: Sweat Equity Shares refers to the equity-linked instrument which a company issues to its employees or directors for providing their knowledge and expertise or making available the intellectual property rights or value addition to the business. Such shares are issued at a discount or for consideration other than cash. It is like compensation to the top management … [Read more...] about Sweat Equity Shares
Cost Centre
Definition: Cost centre can be understood as a site (sales area, or department), a person (salesman, or machine operator), an item of equipment (delivery vehicle, machinery) or a combination of these, for which cost is determined and used to control the costs. It implies that segment of the organization, that helps in making its appropriate division for the purpose of product … [Read more...] about Cost Centre
Non-Profit Organization
Definition: Non-Profit Organization, as the name signifies a type of organization that does not operate with the purpose of making a profit, rather, it works for a social cause. NPOs are legally and voluntarily registered entities, run by a group of people with a service motive, so as to promote the general welfare of the public. The money earned in the form of revenues or … [Read more...] about Non-Profit Organization
Index Number
Definition: Index Number is a statistical tool that gauges the changes in the degree of a variable or group of related variables over a specified period of time, or over two different situations. Index numbers are applicable to the values of economic time series. It reflects the general relative change that is primarily used by economists to present economic data time series … [Read more...] about Index Number
Gig Economy
Definition: Gig Economy is a group of the market that connects service providers to consumers on a gig, i.e. per job/task basis. It implies a labour market wherein numerous individuals are employed on a part-time basis or where freelance work persists, instead of conventional full-time work. Even organizations look for independent contractors, on-call workers and freelancers to … [Read more...] about Gig Economy
Statistics
Definition: Statistics can be defined as a part of applied mathematics that is concerned with the collection, classification, interpretation, analysis or the numerical and categorical data and facts, and drawing conclusions, so as to present the same in a systematic manner. It involves a wide variety of methods which facilitates data analysis, for decision making … [Read more...] about Statistics
Small Scale Industries (SSI)
Definition: Small Scale Industry (SSI) refers to an industrial undertaking whose investment in fixed assets, i.e. plant and machinery, is not less than ₹ 1 crore, be it is owned, leased, or hire purchased. Nevertheless, considering the needs of small-scale industries which are dependent on export promotion and modernization, the maximum investment in fixed asset is ₹ 5 … [Read more...] about Small Scale Industries (SSI)
Barter System
Definition: The barter system is a system of exchange, which was prevalent in the world centuries ago, before the introduction of the monetary system. In this arrangement, goods and services are traded for goods and services. This means that the parties exchange each other's commodity directly without any mediation of money on the basis of equivalent estimates of price and … [Read more...] about Barter System