Margin Department: The department in a brokerage firm that monitors customers' margin accounts, ensuring that all short sales, stock purchases, and other positions are covered by the margin account balance.

 

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Margin Department: The department in a brokerage firm that monitors customers' margin accounts, ensuring that all short sales, stock purchases, and other positions are covered by the margin account balance.

Marginal Revenue: The change in total revenue as a result of producing one additional unit of output.

Marginal Efficiency Of Capital: The percentage yield earned on an additional unit of capital.

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Marginal Utility: The change in total satisfaction as a result of consuming one additional unit of a specific good or service.

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Marginal Cost: The increase or decrease in a firm's total cost of production as a result of changing production by one unit.

Marginal: Incremental.

Margin Of Safety: With respect to working capital management, the difference between (1) the amount of long-term financing and (2) the sum of fixed assets and the permanent component of current assets.

Margin Of Profit: Gross profit divided by net sales. Used to measure a firm's operating efficiency and pricing policies in order to determine how competitive the firm is within the industry.