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When given choices on (for example) an investment action to make, the opportunity cost represents the potential loss of taking one action versus another.
Let’s say you have the choice of buying stock A or a U.S. Treasury yielding 4%, and you choose stock A. But it turns out that stock A only ends up producing a 1% return on the year. In this case, your opportunity cost for that year would have been 3%.
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Accounting standards are the practices which make financial information uniform and normalized between various businesses
An accounting period can be a fiscal year, quarter, or month, or any other time frame for which reporting is being done
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A bull call spread is a vertical spread that buys and sells calls in a way that benefits from upward price movement
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