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Accounting Definitions G:
GAAP:
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Gage:
To determine the dimensions, amount, force, etc.
Gain:
To get or undergo as an increase, profit, addition. To make progress, increase, improve. A desired acquisition, commercial profit. Amount of increase.
Gainful:
Yielding profit, lucrative.
Gainless:
Profitless.
Gamble:
To risk or bet something of value on the outcome of an event, a game of chance. To take a risk to obtain a desired result. To wager or bet something of value.
Gambler:
One who gambles.
Gaming:
The act or practice of gambling.
A book or computer record showing all the financial transactions of a business.
Geometric:
Pertaining to or according to the rules and principles of geometry.
Geometry:
The branch of mathematics that treats of space and its relations, especially as shown in the properties and measurement of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids.
Goal:
a point toward which effort or movement is directed, the objective point that one is striving to reach, the end aimed at.
Goodwill:
The value of a business over and above its tangible assets.
Good-will:
The prestige and friendly relationship with customers built up by a business or member of a profession.
Great:
Very large, big, immense, vast. Being much more numerous than the average.
Gross Income:
Earnings before any usual deductions such as tax or expenses have been made.
Growth:
The process of growing, gradual increase of development.
Growth Industry:
An industry with a rate of growth or development greater than the rate of growth of the economy as a whole.
Guarantee:
A pledge or formal assurance that something will meet stated specifications or that a specified act will be performed.
Guaranty:
A pledge, made in separate contract, to be responsible for the contract, debt, or duty of another person in case of his default. A deposit or security made in place of such a pledge.
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