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Debt-Equity Management Ratio: A measurement of the relative utilization of debt and equity: computed by dividing average total assets by average stockholders' equity.

Operational Integration: The consolidation into a single operation of operations that were previously carried out separately by different providers.

Operationally Efficient Market: Market in which investors can obtain transactions services that reflect the true costs associated with furnishing those services. Also called an internally efficient market.

Operation: Statements which use programming commands to tell a computer to do something.

Operating Ratio: A ratio that measures a firm's operating efficiency.

Operating Performance Ratio: An overall measure of the efficiency of operations during a period: computed by dividing net income by net sales.

Operations Director: Individual who typically oversees claims, management information services, enrollment, underwriting, member services, and office management.

Open-Market Purchase Operation: A systematic program of repurchasing shares of stock in market transactions at current market prices, in competition with other prospective investors.

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC): The Options Clearing Corporation issues all exchange-listed securities options in the United States and guarantees all transactions in those options. The OCC also assigns exercised options f . . . View Full Definition

Packer Concentration: The degree to which a few large firms dominate total sales within segments of the meat packing industry, which, some farmers and other critics contend, can cause or at least contribute to lo . . . View Full Definition