Quoted price

Quoted price is the official listed prices of securities of quoted companies. Also any price quotation or price list.

Quoted investments

Investments for which there is a quotation or listing. Listed shares or securities in the stock exchange.

Quoted company

A public limited company the prices of whose shares are quoted on the stock exchange.

Quote drivers trading

Trading of shares or securities where brokers/marketers quote buy/sell prices for a scrip simultaneously.

Quotation

A company (or party) wanting to sell goods/assets or wanting services issues tenders for bid or quotation; the party who wants to buy or offer services responds with quotation (usually secret and sealed).

Quota sampling

Quota sampling is a method where the sample is chosen according to a number of key distinctive characters from the population.

Quota

1) The quantity of products that an employee should produce or sell within a specific period. 2) A government-imposed restriction on imports of a particular product or on the amount or number imported from a certain country, often on a par with exports. 3) A form of quantitative restriction on exporters by the importing country frowned on by WTO.

Quick fix

An easy remedy to a solution which is actually a deceptive one. An improvisation or make-shift solution that serves for the time being without a fundamental remedy to the problem.

Quick asset

A current asset which is convertible into cash readily. Also called liquid assets. Quick assets are; cash, book debts and finished stock and excludes raw materials and work-in-process inventory.

Queueing model

The questionnaire method is the method of collecting data by questionnaire. This is adopted either through personal visits to the audience with the questionnaire or through mailing service.

Questionnaire method

The questionnaire method is the method of collecting data by questionnaire. This is adopted either through personal visits to the audience with the questionnaire or through mailing service.

Questionnaire

1) A formulated series of questions designed for collection of information and their statistical analysis. 2) A document having these questions.

Question mark business

Question mark businesses are those businesses that are having a low market share but a high growth rate. Such business is marked usually by low overheads, high quality of products and product innovation.

Quasi money

Anything that acts as a money though it is not either metallic or paper money. Plastic money, hundis are examples.

Quartile deviation

Quartile deviation is one half the distance between first and third quartiles. It is a statistical device to measure the degree of variation in a distribution of quantities more accurately than through the measurement of simple arithmetical mean or average.

Quartile

When a set of number is arranged in order of magnitude the lower quartile is the number a quarter of the way up from the bottom and the upper quartile the number a quarter of the way down from the top. It is 1/4 th of the series from the beginning or the end in an ascending or descending order.

Quantity discount

Lowering the price of a product when purchased in bulk. Such higher discounts are allowed to increase sales volume and as special incentive to wholesale and bulk-buyers.

Quantitative techniques

: It is the name given to the group of statistical and operations research (or programming) methods used for problem-solving.

Quantitative data

Quantitative data has the characteristic of numerical magnitude. Often quantities are assigned to variables for manipulation through mathematical models.

Quantitative analysis

Analysis of a business situation or decision problem through a mathematical model in which quantity values (often probabilistic) are assigned to the related variables.

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