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Average number of days to collect payment after a credit sale.

Average number of days a business takes to pay its suppliers.

Today's value of a project's future cash flows minus its upfront cost.

The gain or loss on an investment relative to its cost.

Percentage of revenue left after subtracting direct costs of goods sold.

Sales level at which total revenue exactly covers total costs.

Current assets minus current liabilities; short-term financial cushion.

Amount added to a product's cost to set its selling price.

A fixed monthly payment that repays a loan over its term.

Interest earned on both the principal and previously accrued interest.

Investing a fixed amount into a fund at regular intervals.

Average cost to acquire one new customer.

Total revenue a business expects from a customer over the relationship.

Percentage of customers or revenue lost over a given period.

Predictable subscription revenue a business earns each month.

Predictable subscription revenue a business earns over a year.

Rate at which a company spends its cash reserves each month.

How long a company can operate before it runs out of cash.

A customer loyalty metric based on likelihood to recommend.

How many users from a starting group stay active over time.

The smallest standard price move in a currency pair.

Using borrowed funds to control a position larger than your own capital.

The deposit a broker requires to open and hold a leveraged position.

The peak-to-trough decline of an account or investment.

A measure of return earned per unit of risk taken.

A mathematical model for pricing European-style options.

A formula for the bet or position size that maximizes long-term growth.

How much you risk on a trade compared with the potential gain.

Deciding how large a trade to place based on your risk.

Investing a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of price.

Revenue earned for every dollar spent on advertising.

An HTML attribute telling Google which language/region a page targets.

The HTML element that sets a page's clickable headline in search results.

A short HTML summary of a page shown beneath its title in search results.

The percentage of times a keyword appears relative to total word count.

The share of people who click a result after seeing it in search.

The page of results a search engine returns for a query.

The visible, clickable words that make up a hyperlink.

A JSON format for adding structured data that search engines read.

A text file telling crawlers which parts of a site they may access.

An XML file listing a site's URLs to help search engines crawl them.

A measure of how easy text is to read, often via Flesch-Kincaid.

A way to encode binary data as plain ASCII text.

A signed token that carries user or session claims between systems.

A pattern language for finding and matching text.

A text schedule that tells a system when to run a task.

A 128-bit identifier that is practically guaranteed to be unique.

A fixed-length fingerprint computed from any data.

Technology that extracts readable text from images or scans.

The proportional relationship between an image's width and height.

Hidden metadata stored inside a photo file.

The small icon shown for a website in browser tabs and bookmarks.

A weight-for-height number used to screen for weight categories.

The total calories a person burns in a day.

The protein, carbohydrate, and fat that supply the body's energy.

A salary component for rent that can be partly tax-exempt in India.

A government-backed long-term savings scheme in India with tax benefits.

A bank deposit locked for a set term at a fixed interest rate.

An average grade point that summarises overall academic performance.