BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Capital
- money that can be invested by an individual or organization in order to make a profit
Wiktionary Definition for: Capital
- A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- Ex:''Washington D.C. is the '''capital''' of the United States of America.''
- Ex:''The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe's youngest '''capital'''.''
- economics money Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- An uppercase letter.
- architecture The uppermost part of a column.
- of prime importance
- cattag British excellent
- Ex:''That is a '''capital''' idea!''
- involving punishment by death
- Ex:''Not all felonies are '''capital''' crimes.''
- uppercase
- Ex:''One begins a sentence with a '''capital''' letter.''
- Capital (''money and wealth'')
- Capital (''important'')
- Ex: ''La peine '''capitale''' est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.''
Additional Resources
- American Capital Strategies Ltd. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW. Please go ahead. Sanjay Sakhrani – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a quick question on the ’08 dividend guidance, how much of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- GE Capital Downgrade Could Mean Large GE Payment
- GE Capital, battered by the credit crisis and battling concerns about its short-term liquidity, faces a likely ratings downgrade that might cause parent General Electric to pay billions. Worse, fears that GE might default on its long-term bonds are also on the rise. Fairfield, Conn.-based GE Capital...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Capital Xenophobia | BTalk Australia
- (15min 10) Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Stephen Kirchner from the Centre for Independent Studies about his paper Capital Xenophobia 2. He says that restrictive investment regimes are holding Australia back. Although the situation has improved since the eighties, we still fall a long way behind the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Why the Crisis Hasn't Shaken the Cost of Capital
- The cost of capital hasn't increased so far in the downturn – and didn't in past recessions. The cost of capital for companies reflects the attitudes of investors toward risk—specifically, the reward they expect for taking risks. If they become more averse to risk, companies...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- Banks Need More Capital
- Global financial intermediation is broken. That intricate and interdependent system directing the world's saving into productive capital investment was severely weakened in August 2007. The disclosure that highly leveraged financial institutions were holding toxic securitised American subprime mortgages shocked market participants. For a year, banks struggled to respond to investor...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Assessing Your Working Capital
- Working capital is the money available to fund a company's day-to-day activity. Essentially, it's the cash—plus assets that can quickly be converted to cash—that is readily available and not committed elsewhere. The formula for working capital is total net current assets (inventory, accounts receivable, cash etc)—minus current liabilities (debts, salaries,...
- Articles 2007-05-30
- E*Trade Asked to Raise New Capital Without Access to TARP
- E*Trade is the latest company to have been dragged into the stress tests run by U.S. federal bank regulators and has been asked to raise new capital as a result. But unlike the "too-big-to-fail" 19 major financial institutions also undergoing stress tests, the online broker -- which doubles as a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Mentor Capital: Risk Mitigated Call Option on Cancer Immunotherapy
- Mike Havrilla submits:The stock research section of BioMedReports.com has been updated to include my 8-page report for Mentor Capital (MNTR.PK), which is current as of the 8/28/09 publication date. Highlights from the report that make Mentor’s stock a compelling investment for individuals interested in the small/micro-cap biomed space are outlined...
- External links 2009-08-30
- Measuring Working Capital Productivity
- Working capital productivity compares an organization's sales with its working capital, as a measure of efficiency.If sales increase more rapidly than the funds needed to generate them, it shows that a business is being well managed and operating productively—so it will be more attractive to investors. It's also an indication...
- Articles 2007-03-15
- Identifying Capital and Operating Leases
- Payments for leased corporate assets must be accounted for in financial statements, to accurately reflectthe company's financial obligations. There are two accounting methods, one for each type of lease: "operating" or "capital."The FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board has developed objective criteria to help managers identify the type of lease based...
- Articles 2007-08-13
- 2000 - FDIC Rules And Regulations: Statement of Policy on Risk-Based Capital
- Capital adequacy is one of the critical factors that the FDIC is required to analyze when taking action on various types of applications and when conducting supervisory activities related to the safety and soundness of individual banks and the banking system. In view of this, the FDIC's Board of Directors...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- PMA Capital Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. And your first question comes from the line of Randy Binner from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Randy Binner - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Hi, good morning everyone. I just, I want to try and understand exactly what the statutory capital situation is at the Run-Off after...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- Greenlight Capital Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jim Bradshaw, of Bares Capital Management. Jim Bradshaw – Bares Capital Management Good morning. I wonder if you could just speak briefly about your credit facility with Citi and whether...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-05
- PMA Capital Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptPMA Capital Corporation PMACA Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript February 20, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Bill Hitselberger – EVP and CFO Vince Donnelly – President and CEO Analysts Robert Paun – Sidoti & Co. Michael Nannizzi – Oppenheimer Randy Binner – FBR Capital Markets Presentation Operator...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-20
- Capital One Financial Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptCapital One Financial Corporation COF Q3 2009 Earnings Call October 22, 2009 5:00 pm ET Executives Jeff Norris – IR Richard Fairbank – President & CEO Gary Perlin – CFO Analysts Andrew Wessel - JP Morgan Christopher Brendler - Stifel Nicolaus & Company David Hoxton –...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-22
- A Reexamination of the Incremental Information Content of Capital Expenditures
- "Under GAAP, recognition of the earnings impact of capital expenditures is postponed until the resulting revenues and expenses are realized. However, if current-period capital expenditures change in the profile of profits, an efficient capital market will impound the revision in current-period share prices. This suggests that unanticipated capital expenditures have...
- White papers 1999-10-01
- What Do Aggregate Consumption Euler Equations Say About the Capital Income Tax Burden?
- Aggregate consumption Euler equations fit financial asset return data poorly. But they fit the return on the capital stock well, which leads to three empirical findings relating to the capital income tax burden. First, capital taxation drives a wedge between consumption growth and the expected pre-tax capital return. Second, capital...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Human Capital, The Structure Of Production, And Growth
- Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more human capital should have adopted more rapidly the skilled-labor augmenting technologies becoming available since the 1970's. High human capital levels should therefore have translated into fast growth in more compared to less...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Pinnacle West Capital Corp. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. Please hold for your first question. Your first question comes from the line of Paul Ridzon from KeyBanc. William J. Post - Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Hello Paul. Paul Ridzon - KeyBanc Just a quick question with regards to 07 actual versus...
- Earnings calls 2008-01-30
- FBR Capital Markets Corporation, Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Eric Bertrand of Barclays Capital. Eric Bertrand - Barclays Capital Meaningful display in the recapitalization of the bank sector. How do you think about that opportunity given the context of the TARP Capital Purchase Program where the treasury actually directly...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-23
