Across
- 2. What's the "GAAP" in common between US and Indian accounts?
- 4. The "group" that selects board members
- 6. Famous consulting firm, initials MBB
- 8. Warren Buffett's company
- 9. The bond's "coupon"—but not a real coupon
- 11. What's "bearish" when falling, "bullish" when rising?
- 13. Which ratio measures a company's leverage?
- 15. A market with a single seller
- 17. IPOs typically raise this, not profits
- 18. The "invisible hand" economist
- 19. The audit opinion you definitely don't want
- 20. What's black and white and read all over in accounting?
- 21. This "spread" isn't for bread, but for risk
- 22. The King of all valuation ratios
Down
- 1. If equity shrinks to zero, what's next?
- 3. Sitting in an office, but not an employee
- 4. The time it takes for an investment to recover its initial outlay
- 5. Reverse of amortization
- 7. In finance, it means "without risk"; in law, "absolute"
- 9. Tax levied on income, not consumption
- 10. The only Big Four firm not based in London
- 12. Asset that gets used up—never capitalized
- 14. The "C" in a CDO, MBS, or ABS
- 16. The last-stage negotiable instrument
- 17. The "cash cow" of consumer finance—plastic money