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I-beam
i.e.
IATA
IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations
ibid
IC Rating
ICAO Technical Instructions
iceberg principle
icon
ICQ
ICSC-UBS store sales
idea
idea champion
idea generation
idea screening
idealism
identical merchandise
identifiable intangible asset
identifiable tangible asset
identification card
identification number
identification of benefits
identity
identity fraud
identity fraud reimbursement program
ideology
idiosyncratic investment
idiosyncratic risk
idle capacity
idle funds
idle money
idle time
IDOV
if clauses
if-then analysis
igloo
ignitable
ijara
ill structured problem
illegal conduct
illegal contract
illegal drug
illegal income
illegal occupation provision
illegal parking
illiquid
illiquid market
illness insurance
illusion of control bias
illusory promise
illusory trust
image
image advertising
image attributes
image data format
image map
image pricing
imageneering
imaging
imbalance of orders
immateriality
immature policies
immediate annuity
immediate compensation
immediate delivery
immediate family
immediate holding company
immediate notice
Immediate Or Cancel (IOC)
immediate parties
immediate relative
immediate run
immediate transportation entry
immediate vesting
immediately dangerous to life and health
imminent health hazard
immunity
impact
impact analysis
impact fee
impact/value framework
impaired insurer
impaired property
impairment
impairment charge
impairment of capital
impairment of long-lived assets
imperative
imperfect competition
imperfect defense
imperfect information
imperfection
imperial system
impersonal accounts
impersonal communication
impersonal service at customer's site
impersonal service at servicer's site
impersonation of the deceased fraud
implementation plan
implementation team
implementer role
implicit contract
implicit cost
implicit interest rate
implicit rate
implied authority
implied condition
implied contract
implied contract of employment
implied cost
implied indemnity
implied notice
implied repudiation
implied term
implied trust
implied volatility
implied warranty
implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose
implied-in-fact contract
implied-in-law contract
implosion of bill of materials
import credit
import declaration
import duty
import letter of credit
import license
import quota
import quota auctioning
import ratio
import relief
import restrictions
import sensitive producers
import substitution
import substitution industrialization (ISI)
import tariff
import tariff schedule
import-substituting industrialization (ISI)
important record
importer
importer number
importer of record
imports
imports for consumption
impossibility
impossibility of performance
imposter rule
impound
impound account
impracticability
impreg
impression management
impressions
imprest amount
imprest fund
imprint
improper influence
improshare
improve
improved real estate
improvement
improvements
improvements and betterments
impulse buying
impulse goods
impunity
impurity
impute
imputed
imputed cost
imputed income
imputed interest
imputed knowledge
imputed notice
imputed value
in bond shipment
in camera
in kind
in lieu of
in pari delicto doctrine
in perpetuity
in personam right
in press
in print
in re
in real terms
in rem right
in short
in situ
in specie
in the black
in the hole
in the middle
in the red
in transit
in-area services
in-basket training
in-control process
in-depth interview (IDI)
in-force business
in-house financing
in-house processing float
in-patient
in-process goods
in-service distribution
in-store marketing
in-store promotion
in-substance debt defeasance
in-the-money option
inactive asset
inactive ingredients
inactive inventory
inactive record
inadmissible action
inadmissible reason
inalienable rights
inbond
inbound
inbound cash flow
inbound logistics
incentive
incentive contract
incentive distribution rights (IDRs)
incentive effect
incentive fee
incentive marketing
incentive pay
incentive scheme
incentive stock option
incentive trust
incentive wage plan
incentive-type contract
incentivize
incentivized traffic
inception
Inchmaree clause
inchoate
inchoate bill of exchange
inchoate contract
inchoate instrument
inchoate interest
incident
incident management (IcM)
incidental authority
incidental damages
incidental fee
incidents of ownership
incineration
incipient default
incite
inclusionary zoning
inclusive value measurement
income
income annuity
income approach
income bond
income budget
income deduction
income disability benefits
income distribution
income effect
income elasticity
income elasticity of demand
income flow
income from operations (IFO)
income fund
income group
Income in Respect of a Decedent (IRD)
income inequality
income policy
income property
income shifting
income splitting
income statement
income stock
income summary
income summary account
income tax
income tax depreciation
income tax expenses
income tax preparer
income taxes payable
income unit
income-consumption line
incomes policy
incoming averaging
incoming goods inspection (IGI)
incompatible duties
incompatible materials
incompetent
incontestable clause
inconvertibility
incorporate
incorporated business
incorporated trustee
incorporation
incorporeal
incorporeal ownership
incorporeal property
incorporeal right
incorrect acceptance
incorrect rejection
INCOTERMS
increased cost of construction insurance
increased hazard
increasing costs
increasing marginal returns
increasing opportunity cost
increasing return to scale
increasing term insurance
increasing-cost industry
increment
incremental borrowing rate
incremental budget
incremental cash-flow
incremental cash-flow principle
incremental change
incremental cost pricing
incremental innovation
incremental internal rate of return
incremental marketing
incremental profit analysis
incremental revenue
incremental sales
incremental spending
incremental tax
incrementalism
incubator firm
incumbency
incumbency certificate
incumbent
incur
incurable depreciation
incurred
incurred but not reported
incurred cost
incurred expense
incurred loss ratio
incurred losses
indefeasible
indefinite quantity contract
indemnify
indemnitor
indemnity
indemnity bond
indemnity clause
indemnity insurance
indemnity principle
indent
indent agent
indentation
indenture
independent
independent adjuster
independent advice
independent agency
independent agency system
independent agent
independent audit
independent auditor
independent contractor
independent cost analysis
independent cost estimate
independent demand
independent enterprise
independent event
independent failure
independent introducing broker
independent producer
independent representative
independent store
independent tour excursion (ITX) fare
independent trustee
independent union
independent variable
indestructible trust
index
index amortizing note (IAN)
index amortizing swap
index bond
index bureau experience
index fund
index lease
index number
index option
index-linked adjustment
indexation
indexed currency option note (ICON)
indexed life insurance
indexing
indexing year
Indian employment credit
Indian Rupee (INR or Rs or Rp)
indication of interest
indicator
indicator organisms
indices
indictable offense
indictment
indirect access filing
indirect bank guarantee
indirect channel of distribution
indirect compensation
indirect competition
indirect cost
indirect exports
indirect government obligation
indirect investment
indirect labor
indirect labor costs
indirect loss
indirect manufacturing costs
indirect material
indirect method
indirect method cash flow statement
indirect overhead cost
indirect production
indirect relationship
indirect tax
indirect terms
indirect-charge method
indispensable party
individual
individual account plan
individual bargaining
individual branding
individual contract
individual contract pension trust
individual development account (IDA)
individual incentive program
individual investor
individual life insurance
Individual Practice Association (IPA) model HMO
individual retirement account (IRA)
individual rights
individual risk premium modification rating plan
individual transfer quota (ITQ)
individualism
indivisibilities
indivisible contract
induced investment
induced spending
inducement
induction
induction furnace
induction of employees
induction training
induction welding
inductive reasoning
industrial
industrial action
industrial all risks
industrial autarky
industrial base
industrial democracy
industrial design
industrial ecology
industrial engineering
industrial fatigue
industrial goods
industrial goods sector
industrial inertia
industrial life insurance
industrial partner
industrial policies
industrial production
industrial property
industrial property form
industrial relations
industrial revenue bond (IRB)
industrial revolution
industrial risk insurers
industrial sector
industrial sludge
industrial source reduction
industrial union
industrial waste
industrialism
industrialization
industry
industry analysis
industry attractiveness
Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB)
industry document
industry environment
industry group
industry life cycle analysis
industry lifecycle
industry multiplier
industry publication
industry segment
industry standard
industry structure
inelastic demand
inelastic supply
ineligible bidder
inequality of bargaining power
inert
inert ingredients
inert waste
infant
infant industry
infant mortality
infant-industry theory
infectious waste
inference
inferential statistics
inferior good
inferred authority
infinite capacity plan
inflammable
inflation
inflation accounting
inflation endorsement
inflation factor
inflation guard coverage
inflation hedge
inflation premium
inflation protection
inflation risk
inflation uncertainty
inflation-indexed bond
inflationary gap
inflationary psychology
inflationary spiral
influence
influence diagram
influencers
infobahn
infoglut
infomediary
infomercial
infopreneur
informal bid
informal communication
informal contract
informal economy
informal entry
informal groups
informal knowledge
informal leader
informal organization
informal plan
informal relations
informal sector
informal tax legislation process
informatics
information
information agent
information anxiety
information appliance
information architecture
information asymmetry
information audit
information broker
information content effect
information costs
information economy
information engineering (IE)
information flow
information gateway
information integrity
information life cycle
information literacy
information management
Information Mapping® (IMAP®)
information memorandum
information overload
information park
information process
information processing
information processing technology
information rate
information resources management (IRM)
information return
information revolution
information richness
information science
information security
information services
information signaling
information silo
information society
information space
information superhighway
information system
information system architecture
information systems literacy
information technology (IT)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
information theory
information utility (IU)
information-based model
informational advertising
informational picketing
informational value
informative intervention
informed
informed compliance
informed consent
infraction
infrared rays
infrastructure
infrastructure trust
infringement
ingot
ingratiate
ingress
inherent
inherent availability
inherent complexity
inherent explosion
inherent explosion clause
inherent reliability
inherent risk
inherent vice
inherently dangerous
inherently safe
inheritance
inheritance tax
inhibitor
initial capital
initial cash flow
Initial Claims
initial eligibility period
initial interest rate
initial investment
initial margin
initial premium
initial production
initial public offering (IPO)
initiate coverage
initiative
initiatives
injection molding
injunction
injury
injury independent of all other means
inland bill
inland bill of lading (B/L)
inland freight charge
inland marine insurance
inland revenue
inland waterways bill of lading
inner array
innkeepers legal liability
innocent
innocent passage
innocent purchaser for value
innocent spouse rule
innominate
innominate contract
innominate obligation
innominate term
innovation
innovation adoption curve
innovation capital
innovation strategy
innovation transfer
innovative
innovators
innuendo
inorganic
inorganic growth
inpack premium
input
input device
input measures
input module
input tax
input tax credit
input tax credit (ITC)
input-output model
input-output tables
input-process-output diagram
inputs
inquest
inquiry
inquisition
inquisitorial system
insanity
inseparability
insertion order
inside buildup
inside lag
inside limits
inside market
inside sales
inside-out strategy
insider
insider information
insider lending
insider trading
Insider Trading And Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988
Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984
insight
insolvency
insolvency clause
insolvent
insolvent insurer
insourcing
inspection
inspection bureau
inspection clause
inspection plan
inspector's or judge's certificate
inspector(s) of election
instability
install
installation
installation goods
installed capacity
installed equipment
installment activity statement
installment buying
installment contract
installment debt
installment land contract
installment letter of credit
installment loan
installment refund annuity
installment refund option
installment sale
installment sales method
installment settlement
installment to amortize one dollar
installments certain
instant messaging
instant pudding
institute cargo clauses
Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
Institute of Financial Services
Institute of Insurance Brokers
Institute of International Bankers (IIB)
institute of life insurance
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
Institute of Petroleum (IP)
institution
institutional
institutional advertising
Institutional Brokers' Estimate System (IBES)
institutional financing
institutional fund
institutional investors
institutional lenders
institutional market
institutional promotion
institutional property
institutional transformation
institutionalization
instruct
instruction to pay
instructional strategy
instructions
instrument
instrumental approach
instrumental rationality
instrumentality
insubordination
insufficient funds
insufficient oxygen
insulated
insulation
insurability
insurability clause
insurable interest
insurable risk
insurable value
insurance
insurance adjuster
insurance carrier
insurance commissioner
insurance company
insurance company rating
insurance cover note
insurance department
insurance examiner
insurance expense
insurance fraud
insurance guaranty act
insurance hall of fame
insurance in force
Insurance Institute of America
insurance liquidator
insurance policy
insurance premium
insurance principle
insurance proceeds
insurance regulatory examiners society
insurance score
insurance to value
insured
insured bond
insured contract
insured mail
insured mortgage
insured peril
insured plan
insured trade acceptance
insured value
insurer
insuring agreement
intaglio process
intake
intangibility
intangible
intangible asset
intangible benefits
intangible cost
intangible drilling costs
intangible personal property
intangible property
intangible reward
intangible tax
intaxification
integer
integer programming
integral control action
integrate
integrated cargo service
integrated carrier
integrated circuit (IC)
integrated demand chain
integrated device electronic (IDE)
integrated financial system
integrated implementation model
integrated logistics
integrated LTC rider
integrated marketing
integrated marketing communications (IMC)
integrated mill
integrated oil & gas company
integrated operations
integrated plan
integrated planning
integrated pricing
integrated product team
integrated services digital network (ISDN)
integrated software
integrated waste management
integration
integration clause
integration rule
integration with social security
integrative bargaining
integrative negotiation
integrative thinking
integrity
intellectual asset
intellectual capital
intellectual capital rating
intellectual property
intellectual property crime
intellectual property rights
intelligence quotient (IQ)
intelligent agent
intelligent manufacturing systems
intelligent processing equipment (IPE)
intensive distribution
intent
intention to create legal relations
intentional injury
intentional set-off
intentional tort
intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT)
inter alia
inter vivos
inter vivos transfer
inter vivos trust
interactional data
interactive
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
interactive communications
interactive marketing
interactive planning
interactive television (ITV)
interactive voice response (IVR)
interbank dealings
interbank market
interbank offered rate (IBOR)
interchange
interchange agreement
interchange fees
interchangeability
interchannel competition
intercommodity spread
intercompany
intercompany transaction
interdependence
interdisciplinary team
interdistrict settlement account
interest
interest adjusted cost
interest arbitration
interest based bargaining
interest bearing
interest bearing note
interest cost
interest cover
interest coverage ratio
interest due
interest expense
interest group
interest in advance loan
interest in arrears
interest income
interest insured
interest inventory
interest of director
interest only loan
interest only strip
interest payable
interest payment
interest rate
interest rate cap
interest rate ceiling
interest rate effect
interest rate floor
interest rate futures
interest rate parity theory
interest rate risk
interest rate sensitivity
interest rate spread
interest rate swap
interest receivable
interest revenues
interest sensitive provision
interest tax shield
interested party
interface
interference time
interfirm cooperation
intergenerational equity
intergovernmental organization (IGO)
interim audit procedures
interim CEO
interim dividend
interim financial statement
interim financing
interim injunction
interim relief
interim report
interim statement
interindustry competition
interleave
interleaving
interline
interline endorsement
interline shipping
interlineation
interlocking directorate
interlocutor
interlocutory
interlocutory injunction
interlocutory order
intermarket analysis
Intermarket Trading System (ITS)
intermediary
intermediary cost
intermediate bulk carrier (IBC)
intermediate care
intermediate care facility
intermediate consignee
intermediate funding
intermediate good
intermediate product
intermediate report
intermediate stock
intermediate targets
intermediate term
intermediate trend
intermediated market
intermediation
intermittent demand
intermittent duty
intermittent production
intermodal
intermodal compatibility
intermodal container transfer facility (ICTF)
intermodal freight
internal analysis
internal attribution
internal audience
internal audit
internal benchmarking
internal check
internal claim
internal communication
internal control
internal cost analysis
internal customer
internal data
internal deliverable
internal economies of scale
internal environment
internal equity
internal expansion
internal factors
internal failure costs
internal financing
internal funds
internal income
internal marketing
internal rate of return (IRR)
internal recovery
internal recruitment
internal revenue
internal revenue code
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
internal sources of financing
internal sourcing
internal statement
internal storage
internal waters
internalization
internalizing an externality
international acclaim
International Accounting Standards (IAS)
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)
international agreement
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
International Association of Classification Societies (IACS)
International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (IBRD)
International Bank Of Reconstruction And Development (IBRD)
international boycott country
international business
international business company (IBC)
international callback
International Carriage Of Dangerous Goods By Road (ADR)
international cartel
International Chamber Of Commerce (ICC)
International Chamber of Shipping
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International Convention For the Prevention Of Pollution From Ships (MARPOL)
International Convention For The Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS)
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
International Court Of Justice
international currency exchange rate
international data encryption algorithm (IDEA)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
international finance
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
international fund
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
International Labor Organization (ILO)
international law
international management
International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code
International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
International Maritime Organization
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
International Medical Guide for Ships
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
international monetary system
international multinational enterprise
international non-governmental organization (INGO)
international organization
International Organization for Standardization (IOS)
international poverty line
international Procurement Organization (IPO)
International Register Of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC)
international reply coupon (IRC)
International Safety Management Code
international sale
International Securities Exchange (ISE)
International Securities Identification Numbering (ISIN)
International Six Sigma Council
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)
international standard of care
international standards
International Standards Organization (ISO)
international taxation
International Telecommunications Satellite (INTELSAT) Organization
International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-TSS)
international trade
International Trade Center (ITC)
International Unit (IU)
international waterway
internationalization
Internet
internet access provider (IAP)
internet address
internet commerce
internet commerce provider (ICP)
Internet Explorer
internet fare
internet marketing
Internet Protocol (IP)
internet relay chat (IRC)
internet service provider (ISP)
Internet Society (ISOC)
internet stock
internet strategy
internet telephony
internet time
internet-based
internetwork
InterNIC
internship
interoperability
interperiod tax allocation
interpersonal conflict
interpersonal influencing factors
interpersonal skill
interpolate
Interpolated Yield Curve (I Curve)
interpolation
interpreter
interquartile range
interrelationship
interrelationship diagram
interrogatories
interstate carrier
interstate commerce
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
interstate commerce commission endorsement
interstate land sales act
interstitial advertising
intertemporal choice
intertemporal equilibrium
intertropical convergence zone (ITZ)
intertype competition
interval measure
interval scale
intervening cause
intervention
interview
interviewer bias
intestacy
intestate
intestate distribution
intimidation
intolerance
intoxicant
intoxicants and narcotics provision
intoxication
intra vires
intra-group services
intrabudgetary transactions
intracommodity spread
intracompany trade
intranet
intraorganizational bargaining
intrapreneurship
intrastate commerce
intratype competition
intrinsic motivation
intrinsic reward
intrinsic stakeholder commitment
intrinsic value
intrinsic worth
introducing broker (IB)
introduction stage
introductory rate
intrusion
intuition
inure
invalid
invalidity
invasion of a trust
invasion of privacy
invasion powers
invention
inventor
inventoriable cost
inventory
inventory accounting
inventory accumulation
inventory adjustments
inventory analysis
inventory carrying cost
inventory certificate
inventory conformity rule
inventory control
inventory cost
inventory days
inventory error
inventory financing
inventory in transit
inventory level
inventory loading
inventory management
inventory management information system
inventory model
inventory obsolescence
inventory on hand
inventory planning
inventory process
inventory profit
inventory record
inventory remarketing
inventory reserve
inventory shrinkage
inventory to cost of sales ratio
inventory to cost-of-goods sold (COGS) ratio
inventory to working capital ratio
inventory turnover
inventory usage
inventory value
inventory variance
inventory velocity
inverse relationship
inversion
inverted market
inverted yield curve
investigate
investigative consumer report
investing
investing activities
investment
investment adviser
investment allowance
investment analysis
investment appraisal
investment bank
investment banker
investment banking
investment broker
investment center
investment club
investment company
Investment Company Act of 1940
Investment Company Amendments Act of 1970
investment credit
investment decision
investment farm
investment function
investment fund
investment grade
investment grade bond
investment grade fund
investment grant
investment holding company
investment horizon
investment in another company
investment incentives
investment income
investment instrument
investment interest expense
investment leverage
investment life cycle
investment management agreement
investment manager
investment policy
investment portfolio
investment position
investment product line
investment project
investment property
investment proposal
investment pyramid
investment recovery
investment reserve
investment revenues
investment securities
investment spending
investment strategy
investment treaty
investment trust
investment value
investomer
investor
invisible balance
invisible barriers to trade
invisible exports
invisible hand
invisible imports
invisible trade balance
invisibles
invitation for bid (IFB)
invitation to bid (ITB)
invitation to tender
invitation to treat
invited error
invoice
invoice basis
invoice date
invoice discounting
invoice factoring
involuntary conversion
involuntary exchange
involuntary foreclosure
involuntary lien
involuntary liquidation preference
involuntary payment
involuntary unemployment insurance
Inward Foreign Manifest (IFM)
IOD fraud
ion
ion exchange
ionization
iOS
IOU
IP address
IP Telephony
iPhone
IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB)
iPod
ipso facto
ipso jure
iron
iron safe clause
irradiation
irregular demand
irrelevant cost
irreparable damage
irreparable harm
irresistible force
irreversible effect
irrevocable
irrevocable beneficiary
irrevocable corporate purchase order (ICPO)
irrevocable credit
irrevocable letter of credit (L/C)
irrevocable offer
irrevocable trust
irritant
island display
island position
Isle of Man
ISLM Model
ISM manufacturing index
ISM Non-Manufacturing Index
ISO 14000 Series
ISO 9000 Series
iso 9001
ISO currency code
isolationism
isometric drawing
isometric projection
isoquant curve
Isoquant map
issuance
issue
issue date
issued business
issued share capital
issuer
issuer identification number (IIN)
issuer risk
issuing bank
issuing carrier
italic face
item
item coding
iterate
iteration
iterative process
itinerary
ivory tower
Izod impact test