Stock Dividend

A stock dividend is a distribution to shareholders paid in additional shares of the company’s stock rather than cash. It increases the number of…

Stock Compensation

Stock compensation (also called equity compensation) is a way employers pay employees — partially or wholly — with company stock or the right to…

Stock Market Crash

A stock market crash is a sudden, large, and usually unexpected decline in stock prices across a broad section of the market. Crashes are…

Stock Keeping Unit Sku

A stock‑keeping unit (SKU) is a retailer’s internal identifier for a specific product, printed (or encoded) as a unique series of characters and a…

Stock Exchange Traded Fund Etf

A stock exchange‑traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund that holds a basket of equities (or equity‑related securities) and trades on an exchange like…

Stochastic Modeling

Stochastic modeling is the construction and use of models that include randomness. Instead of producing a single fixed outcome for a given set of…

Sticky Wage Theory

Key takeaways – Sticky wage theory (also called wage rigidity) holds that nominal wages do not fall easily when labor demand weakens; they tend…

Statutory Reserves

Key takeaways – Statutory reserves are minimum levels of liquidity insurance regulators require insurers to hold so they can meet future policyholder claims. –…

Statistical Significance

KEY TAKEAWAYS – Statistical significance is a determination about whether observed data are unlikely to have occurred by chance alone under a specified null…

Statement Of Retained Earnings

The statement of retained earnings (also called the retained earnings statement, statement of owner’s equity, or statement of shareholders’ equity) is a financial report…