A single, well-organised reference for business and finance students, new investors, and anyone who wants to follow finance news without getting lost in the jargon. Each term has a short definition in plain English, grouped by topic so related ideas sit together.

What's inside:

• Foundations: assets, liabilities, equity, leverage, bonds, debentures, coupons

• Markets: primary and secondary markets, OTC, forex, derivatives, organised exchanges (ASX and NYSE)

• Market events and cycles: bull and bear markets, corrections, bubbles, dead cat bounces, recessions, the business cycle

• Securities: stock, share and fund types (ETFs, hedge funds, private equity), and how indexes are weighted

• Trading: spreads, alpha and beta, DCF, Graham Number, CAN SLIM, the Chowder Rule, dollar-cost averaging, MPT and PMPT, CFDs

• Performance KPIs: ROE, RSI, EBITDA, Piotrowski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, Beneish M-Score, D/E, DFL

• Corporate finance: M&A (accretion, dilution, goodwill, synergies), capital structure, covenants

• Personal finance: credit scores, DTI, secured and unsecured debt, budgeting, compound and simple interest

• Fintech and crypto: DeFi, tokenisation, blockchain, public and private keys

• Regulation and governance: SEC, IFRS, the agency problem, imputation credits, limited liability

• Time value of money: annuities and perpetuities (ordinary, due and deferred)

• Risk: systematic vs unsystematic, credit, market, operational, duration and leverage risk