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| Corporate governance | het stelsel van verantwoordelijkheden van alle partijen die bij het bestuur van een bedrijf betrokken (kunnen) zijn, zoals van Raad van Bestuur, Raad van Commissarissen, aandeelhouders en eventuele andere partijen die kapitaal hebben verschaft aan het bedrijf |
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| EBITDA | earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization |
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol) A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. |
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| Gateway | The technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up that translates between two dissimilar protocols, for example America Online has a gateway that translates between its internal, proprietary e-mail format and Internet e-mail format. Another, sloppier meaning of gateway is to describe any mechanism for providing access to another system, e.g. AOL might be called a gateway to the Internet. |
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| Gearing | nettoschuld / groepsvermogen |
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| Gigabyte | 1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring. |
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| Groepsvermogen | eigen vermogen plus minderheidsdeelnemingen |
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| Interest coverage | EBIT / financial income and expense |
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| Nettoschuld | het totaal van de langlopende schulden en de rentedragende kortlopende schulden, verminderd met de liquide middelen |
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| Return on capital employed (ROI) | operating result / average capital employed |
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| Return on equity (ROE) | resultaat uit gewone bedrijfsuitoefening na belastingen in procenten van het gemiddeld eigen vermogen |
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| Solvency ratio | group equity / balance-sheet total |
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| Total shareholder return (TSR) | koersontwikkeling plus dividend |
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| WACC | Weighted Average Cost of Capital = (group equity / operating capital) * Re + (interest-bearing liabilities / operating capital) * Rd + (provisions / operating capital) * Rd Re = after-tax cost of equity Rd = after-tax cost of debt |
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