
Abrechnungszeitraum
Accounting period - The time frame used for financial reporting, normally months, quarters or years.
Accounting period - The time frame used for financial reporting, normally months, quarters or years.
Abschreibung - Process similar to depreciation, usually applied to intangible fixed assets.
Aktiengesetz - Legislation to control the activities and administration of limited liability companies.
Aktienurkunde - A document providing evidence of share ownership.
Aktionäre - Owners of a limited liability company.
Anlagevermögen - An asset that is held by an enterprise for use in the production or supply of goods or services, for rental to others, or for administrative pu...
Fixed assets - Assets that you intend to keep for longer than twelve months.
Anleihe - A form of IOU issued by the company, or a government or other institution, offering to pay interest in return for borrowing your money, or to pay you ...
Aufwand - Generally the running costs of a business.
Base rate - Set by the Bank of England, this is the country's base rate of interest and influences the rate of interest on financial products and services.
Charge over assets - Used when all or some of the assets of an organisation have been used as collateral to secure a transaction of some kind (usually the borro...
Beschränkte Haftung - Most commonly used to describe the limit of liability of a shareholder (member) to contribute to the assets of a company if it goes into l...
Besichertes Darlehen - Loan where the lender has taken a special claim on particular assets or revenues of the company to give extra protection in the event of ...
Operating expenditure (OPEX) - On-going costs for running a business, service or system that includes day-to-day expenditure.
Operating profit/loss - The profit or loss a company makes, which reflects how a business is performing.
Bootstrapping - Building a company without external investment, often relying on personal savings and running with the lowest possible operating costs
Brutto - The total amount of money a company has earned in a period of time before deductions such as taxes.
Bruttogewinn (oder Marge) - Sales minus cost of sales before deducting administration and selling expenses (see also gross margin).
Cashflow-Prognosen - Statements of cash expected to flow into and out of a business over a particular period.
Direktor - A member of the board of direktors who bears the responsibility of managing the company on behalf of the shareholders.
Director(S) - Person(s) appointed by shareholders of a limited liability company to manage the affairs of the company.
Dividende - Money paid by a company from its profits to its shareholders.
PBIT - Profit before interest and tax.
Annual Equivalent Rate (AER) - An interest rate reflecting what you'll actually pay, or earn, on your money after the effects of compounding are taken into acco...
Annual Percentage Rate (APR) - The rate of interest you agree to pay on money borrowed, and a useful way to compare how much interest you would pay on loans fro...
Eigenkapital - Used by analysts to determine the financial health of a company. It also represents what would be left if all of a businesses' assets were liquid...
Eingefordert (Stammkapital) - The company has called upon the shareholders who first bought the shares, to pay for their shares.
Capital employed - Sometimes called total assets less current liabilities or total shareholders' funds plus long-term finance (the two calculations provide the ...
Einheit, Einheiten - Something that exists independently, such as a business which exists independently of the owner.
Einzelhändler - An individual owning and operating a business alone.
Entnahmen - Cash taken for personal use, in sole trader or partnership businesses, treated as a reduction of ownership interest.
Earnings per share (EPS) - A measure of how much profit a company is making for its shareholders.
Ertrag - A phrase that is often interchangeable with profits.
Financial management - Planning, analysing, monitoring, organising, reviewing, and controlling a company's finances.
Fixed costs - Costs that vary over time rather than in proportion to throughput, e.g. Rent of premises, salaries etc.
Forderungen aus Lieferungen und Leistungen - Amounts due from customers, also described as a trade debtors.
Forderungen aus Lieferungen und Leistungen - Persons or businesses who buy goods or services from a business in the normal course of trade are allowed a period ...
Invoice factoring - When a business sells its invoices to a third party, which will then add their own fee to the charges and seek the money from the debtor.
Bad debt - The amount owed by a customer who cannot, or will not, pay for goods or services they have had.
Gemeinkosten - Costs that do not change regardless of the level of production and are not typically involved with the cost of production, such as rent.
Annual report and accounts - Most organisations are required to produce an annual report on their activities and enclose the accounts of the company's performan...
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH) - Company where the liability of the owners is limited to the amount of capital they have agreed to contribute.
Gewinn - Calculated as revenue (income) minus expenses.
Profit and loss account - A financial statement that shows the income and outgoings of a company over a certain period of time showing the net profit or loss fo...
Gläubiger - A person or firm that has lent your business money or to whom you owe money.
Gläubiger - Suppliers to whom we owe money.
Grundkapital - Name given to the total amount of cash which the shareholders have contributed to the company.
Grundsatz der Unternehmensfortführung - Financial statements are prepared on this basis assuming that the business will continue operating into the foreseeable ...
Gutschrift - A document summarising the reduction in charge on an invoice (bill), usually because the customer has returned defective goods or has received inad...
Registrar Of Companies - An official authorised by the government to maintain a record of all annual reports and other documents issued by a company.
Annual general meeting (AGM) - A meeting of the members (shareholders) of a company at which the board of directors lay the company's accounts and report for sh...
Immaterielles Anlagevermögen - An asset, such as a right, that cannot be touched (e.g. a trademark or Goodwill).
Inflation - A percentage figure that represents how much prices of goods and services increased over a specific period.
Investitionsausgabe - Spending on non-current (fixed) assets of a business.
Capital expenditure (CAPEX) - Funds used by the company to buy, maintain or improve its fixed assets such as buildings, vehicles, equipment, or land.
Annual accounts - Also known as financial, company or statutory accounts. Businesses must produce an annual set of accounts detailing business finances.
Kapital - Anything invested into a company that has a tangible value or benefit to its own, such as a machinery, patents, or financial assets like cash.
Return on investment (ROI) - The earning power of an asset or activity measured as a ratio of the net income of the activity to the operational cost. ROI lets a...
Kapitalrücklage - The price paid for shares in a company over and above their nominal value.
SME - Small or Medium Sized Enterprises. A business is deemed an SME if it meets two of three criteria: it has a turnover of £25m or less, it employs fewer ...
Konten - Financial statements prepared at the end of a period to reflect the profit of loss or the period and financial position at the end of the period.
Corporation tax - Paid by UK companies on their profits.
Cost-push inflation - Cost-push inflation occurs when production input costs, such as wages and raw materials, rise and producers pass the increased costs on to...
Kurzfristige Verbindlichkeit - A liability which is expected to be settled in the entity's normal operating cycle, generally within 12 months after the balance ...
Latente Steuern - Income & expenditure may be recognised at different time for accounting and tax purposes. Deferred tax is a way to balance this timing differe...
Leasing - Acquiring the use of an asset through a rental agreement.
Bank rate - In the UK it is set by the Bank of England, to control the money supply and inflation. Banks usually lend at anything from 2 per cent above leitzins...
Liquid asset - An asset that can be easily converted into cash.
Management buyout (MBO) - The management of a company buy that company, or part of it, from its owners.
Marge - The amount of money a company makes, expressed as a percentage. For example, a gross profit of £1m on sales of £10m is a 10% profit marge.
Marktkapitalisierung - The stock-market value of a company. It is calculated by multiplying the total number of issued ordinary shares by today's price per shar...
Memorandum (For A Company) - Document setting out main objects of the company and its powers to act.
Demand-pull inflation - Occurs when demand is high, and suppliers increase prices until demand reduces.
Negative equity - When the value of an asset is less than what you initially paid.
Nominal Value (Of A Share) - The amount stated on the face of a share certificate as the named value of the share when issued.
Netto - The amount of profit left after deductions such as tax have been made.
Nettobuchwert - Costs of non-current (fixed)( asset minus accumulated depreciation.
Nettovermögen - Assets minus liabilities (equals ownership interest).
Nominal interest rate - An interest rate that isn't adjusted for inflation.
Passive Rechnungsabgrenzung - Income invoiced, or paid for, in advance of providing the service resulting in the income being deferred to a later accounting per...
Patent - An official legal document stating that a company has the sole right to make, use, or sell a particular invention.
PAYE - Stands for Pay As You Earn. A method of collecting income tax on behalf of the Government by taking it directly from your employees' wages.
Periodisierungsgrundsatz - The effects of transactions and other events are recognised when they occur (and not as cash or its equivalent is received or paid) a...
Product elasticity of demand (PED) - The degree to which demand for products or services changes due to changes in price.
Cost of production - Similar to cost of goods sold and used mostly in academic accounts.
Prognose - Prognose estimate of future performance and position based on stated assumptions and usually including a quantified amount.
Prüfung - An official inspection of a company's accounts.
Real interest rate - The rate of interest minus the current rate of inflation.
Rechnung - A document from supplier to buyer summarising goods or services supplied and the price payable.
Reingewinn - Sales minus cost of sales minus all administrative and selling costs.
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) - This ratio is arguably the most vital for the control of performance in large, delegated, businesses. It is made up from the...
Venture capital - Capital invested into projects with long term growth potential but also higher risks, such as start-up businesses.
Rücklagen - The claim which owners have on the assets of a company because the company has created new wealth for them over the period since it began. Most comm...
Rückstellung - A liability of uncertain timing or amount.
Sachanlagen - A fixed asset (also called a non-current asset) which has a physical existence. Used to differentiate it from an Intangible fixed asset.
Articles Of Association - Document setting out the relative rights of shareholders in a limited liability company.
Schuldner - A person or firm that owes money to your business.
Schuldner - The amount outstanding on customers' accounts.
Sicherheit - Security, usually for a loan. It is effected by enabling the giver of the loan the right to seize the asset that is being used as sicherheit and se...
Soll - Entries in the debit column of a ledger account representing increases in assets or expenses, or decreases in liabilities or income.
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