Summary
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The video defines 'hard currency' as a currency with consistently high demand in foreign exchange, and 'salvage value' as the scrap value of an asset or its estimated value at the end of its useful life. It also introduces 'fair value' as a price determined by a disinterested third party acceptable to both buyers and sellers.
Key terms discussed include 'capital gain,' which is an increase in the value of capital stock. 'Current assets' are defined as liquid assets like cash, accounts receivables, and merchandise. 'Bonds' are explained as fixed-interest forms of long-term security issued by governments or companies, and 'rate of return' is the interest rate where the present worth of cash on a project is zero.
The video covers 'law of diminishing return,' which occurs when increasing some factors of production with others fixed results in a less proportionate increase in output. A 'monopoly' is described as a market situation with one seller and many buyers, while a 'cartel' is a formal organization of producers colluding to increase profit and block newcomers.
Several depreciation methods are introduced: 'straight line method' where the decrease in asset value is constant each year, 'sinking fund method' involving regular deposits at compound interest to match asset depreciation, and 'declining balance' where asset value decreases at a decreasing rate. The two main financial statements are identified as the 'balance sheet' and the 'profit and loss statement'.
The video defines 'labor cost' as the hire of a skilled person for work. 'Deflation' is explained as a sharp, sudden increase in money or credit without a corresponding increase in business transactions. 'Depletion' refers to the decrease in a property's value due to the gradual extraction of its contents, and 'gross margin' is presented as a measure of how much a product costs to make.