Finance & Business 

It is important to ensure your tax return is error free. We provide you a 10-point last-minute checklist to make sure your tax return is error-free.

Not only the additions and subtractions need to be correct, other inputs such as your filing status, social security number, and other things could also delay your tax refund. They could also raise a red flag in IRS and cause them to audit your tax return which is the last thing you want to happen to you.

Tax deduction 179 is used to recover all or part of the cost of certain qualifying property. When conducting business you can include your tools, computer, etc. in your costs either as an expense, via depreciation or through deduction 179. Deduction 179 is short for the official name section 179 depreciation deduction.

You have to notify the Internal Revenue Service IRS if you move, if either your home or business address changes. Notify the IRS in these cases to ensure that you receive any refunds or correspondence.

A Synthetic Long Call strategy is a position where a long stock position is combined with a long put option. The purchase of a put option while still owning stocks is a strategy with a limited loss and (after subtracting the put premium) unlimited profit.

A Synthetic Long Put strategy is a position where a short stock position is combined with a long call option position.

Unlike the synthetic long call position, the synthetic long put strategy is a bearish strategy with limited risk. The investor expects the price of stocks to go down for a long time hoping to make profit on the decline, but he or she still wants to curtail the risk in case his expectation won't realize and the stocks go up. The investor would recoup the loss on the short stock from the long call in this case.

The Law of One Price says that identical goods should sell for the same price in two separate markets. This assumes no transportation costs and no differential taxes applied in the two markets.

In general, predatory pricing refers to anti-competitive activities taken by a company that is dominant in the market to protect its market share from new or existing competitors. Predatory pricing involves temporarily pricing a product low enough to end a competitive threat.

The Earnings Per Share (EPS) financial measure captures the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. Earnings per share (EPS) serves as an indicator of a company's profitability.

The Price/Earnings Ratio, also Price-to-Earnings Ratio, or shortly the P/E ratio, is a valuation metric of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings. The P/E ratio looks at the relationship between the stock price and the company’s earnings.

Price elasticity, as it relates to economics, is a measure of the responsiveness of demand or supply to a change in price. Elasticity is a measure of responsiveness.