Crossword clues for factoring
factoring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Factor \Fac"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Factored (-t[e^]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Factoring.] (Mach.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Factoring \Fac"tor*ing\, n. (Math.) The act of resolving into factors.
Wiktionary
n. A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. vb. (present participle of factor English)
WordNet
n. (mathematics) the resolution of an integer or polynomial into factors such that when multiplied together they give the integer or polynomial [syn: factorization, factorisation]
Wikipedia
Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor) at a discount. A business will sometimes factor its receivable assets to meet its present and immediate cash needs. Forfaiting is a factoring arrangement used in international trade finance by exporters who wish to sell their receivables to a forfaiter. Factoring is commonly referred to as accounts receivable factoring, invoice factoring, and sometimes accounts receivable financing. Accounts receivable financing is a term more accurately used to describe a form of asset based lending against accounts receivable. The Commercial Finance Association is the leading trade association of the asset-based lending and factoring industries.
Factoring is not the same as invoice discounting (which is called an "Assignment of Accounts Receivable" in American accounting – as propagated by FASB within GAAP). Factoring is the sale of receivables, whereas invoice discounting ("assignment of accounts receivable" in American accounting) is a borrowing that involves the use of the accounts receivable assets as collateral for the loan. However, in some other markets, such as the UK, invoice discounting is considered to be a form of factoring, involving the "assignment of receivables", that is included in official factoring statistics. It is therefore also not considered to be borrowing in the UK. In the UK the arrangement is usually confidential in that the debtor is not notified of the assignment of the receivable and the seller of the receivable collects the debt on behalf of the factor. In the UK, the main difference between factoring and invoice discounting is confidentiality.
Factoring can refer to the following:
- Factoring (finance), a form of commercial finance
- Factorization, a mathematical concept
- Decomposition (computer science)
Usage examples of "factoring".
Spidlaria, and Lyasa and Syandar are working with him to rebuild the trading and factoring system there.
And when it reached one of those, it was like hitting a wall, causing the factoring experiment to abort.
Compute all values with and without factoring in assistance by the Companions.
It's possible to complicate Pemulis's Mean-Value equation for distribution by factoring in stuff like historical incidences of bellicosity and appeasement, unique characteristics of perceived national interests, etc.
Because if the entire world were to become a police state obsessed with recovering old secrets, then vast resources might be thrown at the problem of factoring large composite numbers.
He's also the head of both a trade factoring firm and a consulting firm.
Worst of all, RSA depends upon the unprovable mathematical hypothesis that there is no polynomial time bounded algorithm for factoring numbers.