Direct access

A disk is a direct access device. Tape drives are not direct access because to find data on them, you […]

Direct cost

The wages and salaries of the employees working exclusively in a manufacturer’s maintenance department are direct costs of the maintenance […]

Direct Cost Percent

The percentage of revenue that is applied to the cost of the product plus overhead, fixed costs, etc.

Direct Marketing

Interactive marketing that produces a measurable response or purchase. The data is stored on a database.

Direct Response

Advertising or promotion that seeks not just to provide information, but to generate an inquiry, order or visit.

Disaster loans

These low-interest loans are offered directly from the SBA and can be used to recover from a declared disaster. Businesses […]

Disclosure

An accounting guideline that requires information pertinent to an investing or lending decision to be included in the notes to […]

Discount rate

A measure of the person’s impatience: how much the person values an additional unit of consumption now relative to an […]

Discounted cash flow

A method used to value an investment by discounting its future expected cash flows to find their value today, or […]