Letter F: Bookkeeping and Accounting Definitions

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ACCOUNTING DEFINITIONS STARTING WITH THE LETTER F
Fact Finding:
The ascertainment of facts or conditions.
Factor:
One of two or more quantities that, when multiplied together, produce a given quantity.
Factorial:
The product of a series of consecutive positive integers from 1 to a given number.
Factorize:
To convert into factors.
Fair Market Value:
A price for something that both buyer and seller willingly agree to when neither party is under undue pressure to complete the transaction.
Fair Trade:
To set a price no less than the manufacturer's minimum price on (a branded or trademarked product).
Fiduciary:
Pertaining to a position of trust or confidence.
Filing:
The To put on file in systematic order, as papers for reference.
Finance:
The science of monetary affairs. Funds, revenue, income. To manage the finances of. To supply the money for.
Financial:
Of or pertaining to finance, monetary. Of or pertaining to those dealing professionally with money and credit.
Financier:
One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs. A capitalist.
Fixed Assets:
An asset of a business that is central to its operation and is not traded.
Forfeit:
To incur the loss of through some fault, omission, error, or offense.
Fortune:
An amount of wealth, usually great wealth.
Fraction:
A quantity less than a unit, or one expressed as the sum of a number of aliquot parts of a unit.
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