- Accruals
- Acid test ratio
- Accrual accounting
- Adjusted EBITA
- Adjusted EBITDA
- Advisor
- Agreement to issue shares
- Anchor investor
- Angle
- Arm's length
- Asset class
- Average Joe and Jane
- Back to basics
- Bail
- Baisse
- Bear market
- Beauty contest
- Beauty parade
- BIMBO
- BINGO
- Black knight
- Blue-chip
- Board of Directors
- Bona fide
- Book building
- Boot Camp
- Branding
- Break-even point, BEP
- Bridge financing
- Bubble
- Bull market
- Burn rate
- Business angels
- Business as usual
- Business plan
- Bust, going bust
- Buy and build
- Buy-out transaction
- CAO
- Carry
- Cash Cow
- Cash Flow
- Cash Rich
- CCO
- CEO
- CFO
- CHRO
- CIO
- C-level
- Closing
- Coaching
- COB
- COLOMBO
- Comfort factor
- Comparison destroying items
- Completion
- Compliance
- Conditions Precedent
- Consolidation
- Contributions in kind
- Convertible debenture
- COO
- Cost
- Core business
- Corporates
- Corporate finance
- Corporate raiders
- Corporate turnaround
- Corporate venture
- Cost of capital
- CPI
- Creditor
- CRO
- Crossover investor
- Crowd funding
- CSR
- C-suite
- CSO
- CTO
- Customer Experience (CX)
- DCF
- Deal
- Deal flow
- Debt
- Debt free
- Debtor
- Deflation
- Derivative
- Development capital
- Dilution
- DINGO
- DINKY
- Discounted cash flow
- Dividend cover
- Dog
- Double digit
- Downside protection
- Downturn (Baisse)
- Drag along
- Drawdown
- Due diligence
- Early Stage
- Earnings per share, EPS
- Earn out
- EBITA
- EBITA margin
- EBITDA
- EBITDA margin
- Elevator pitch
- Emerging business
- Enterprise incubator
- Enterprise Value
- Entrepreneur
- Equity
- Equity capital/Assets ratio
- Equity ratio
- Equity value
- Escrow
- EVCA
- EV-multiple
- Exit
- Exit process
- Expansion financing
- Fee
- Financial buyer
- Flip
- First round financing
- Focusing
- Fund
- Fund raising
- Futures
- Guaranties
- GDP
- Gearing
- GNP
- Golden parachute
- Goodwill
- Grass roots financing
- Growth Capital
- Hamster Wheel
- Hands On, Hands Off
- Hausse
- Hedge
- Hockey Stick
- Holding Company
- Hostile takeover
- In between jobs
- Independent Director
- Index
- Industrial takeover
- Inflation
- Information memorandum (IM)
- Incubator
- Instrument
- Intangible assets
- Intermediary
- Internal interest
- Investment bank
- Investment Committee
- Investment company
- Investor
- IPO
- IRR
- JIC
- JIT
- Joint venture
- KANBAN
- Key Issues
- Lead investor
- Leads
- Leakage
- LEAN
- Lemons
- Letter of Intent
- Lever
- Leverage
- Leveraged Buy-out, LBO
- Liquid ratio
- Liquid share
- Listing
- Listing on a securities exchange
- Living dead
- Locked box
- Lock up agreement
- Lowball
- Lowflation
- M&A
- Management Fee
- Management walk out
- Management buy-in, MBI
- Management buy-out, MBO
- Mezzanine finance
- Monitoring fee
- Monopoly
- MTF
- NATO
- NDA
- Newco
- Negative cash flow
- Net debt
- Network
- New issuance
- Niche company
- Non executive director
- Not invented here, NIHS
- NPV
- NXC
- NXD
- Offshoring
- Oligopoly
- Option
- OTC
- Outsourcing
- Overcapitalized
- Owner directive
- Partial buy-out
- Pay-back
- Pay-off
- Peer group
- Penny Stock
- PE ratio
- Pirates
- Pitch
- Poison pill
- Positive cash flow
- Portfolio
- Post-money
- Pre-emptive rights
- Preferred shares
- Premium
- Price mechanism
- Pre-money
- Private Equity
- Profitability
- Promissory note
- Proposal
- Pro rata
- Putting your business card on the table
- Q&A
- Quant
- Quick Assets Ratio
- Quotation
- Quoted Company
- Raise a fund
- RAMBO
- Ratchet effect
- R&D
- Real interest rate
- Redemption program
- Red flag
- Relative return
- Rescue
- Restructure
- Return
- Return on capital
- Revenues
- Reverse take-over
- Right of first refusal
- Risk credits
- Road show
- R&W
- Second round Financing
- Securities exchange
- Seed capital
- Secrecy agreement
- Seed capital
- Sellers knowledge
- Serial entrepreneur
- SHA
- Share allocation
- Share capital
- Shareholders agreement
- Shareholder meeting
- Shareholder value
- Share repurchase
- Short selling, Shorting
- Signing
- Silent partner
- Solidity
- Soft loans
- SPA
- Spin-off
- Spin-out
- Spoon-feeding
- Spreadsheet jockey
- Star
- Start – up
- Structuring a transaction
- Success fee
- SWOT
- Syndication
- Synergy
- Synthetic option
- Systematic risk
- Tag along
- Teaser
- Term sheet
- Texas shoot-out
- TLA
- Top line
- Track record
- Trademark
- Trade sale
- Tranche
- Transaction value
- Turn-around
- Underwrite
- Unicorn
- Unsystematic risk
- Upturn
- User Experience (UX)
- Value uplift
- VDD
- Vendor note
- Venture Capital, VC
- Vicious circle
- Volatility
- VUCA
- WACC
- Warranties and indemnities
- Warrant
- White knight
- Worst case scenario
- Yardstick
- YTD
- Yield
- Yo-yo market
- Zero base
- Zillion
- Zombie
- ZOPA