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A car warranty extends from a minimal 1 year, more common 3 year and extended 5 years. While some car manufacturers have gone as far as 10 years. Crate En…

In complex commercial transactions, buyers and sellers may make specific representations and warranties to each other. In common parlance, these are known…

In the United States, the rights and remedies of buyers and sellers of goods are governed by the Article 2 of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as it has been…

In retail business, a warranty (or "extended warranty") commonly refers to a guarantee of the reliability of a product under conditions of ordin…

A warranty is violated when the promise is broken; when goods are not as should be expected, at the time the sale occurs, whether or not the defect is app…

A lifetime warranty is usually a guarantee on the lifetime of the product on the market rather than the lifetime of the consumer[3] (the exact meaning sho…

Sometimes confused an as implied warranty, the warranty of title is not an implied warranty but a warranty wherein the seller of goods warrants that he ha…

An implied warranty is one that arises from the nature of the transaction, and the inherent understanding by the buyer, rather than from the express repre…

An express warranty is a guarantee from the seller of a product that specifies the extent to which the quality or performance of the product is assured an…

To put it into context, SOX was anesthetized by the US Congress in acknowledgment to the high-profile banking scandals involving companies like Enron, Tyc…

Service Lifecycle Administration (SLM) is a business activity focused on appliance a company's products, and the barter that bought them, afterwards t…

This article analyzes whether an array of recent PeopleSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSFT), moves will finally and lastingly establish it as a serious contender in …

For a detailed discussion of lean manufacturing systems and traditional MRP see "Pull vs Push: a Discussion of Lean, JIT, Flow, and Traditional MRP&q…

Nevertheless, the acquisition of YOUCentric bears its challenges too. The major one is that YOUCentric has had only a handful of customers that have integ…

This is yet another example of what difference a year can make, and of a vendor taking advantage of a given second chance. A year ago, J.D. Edwards was in…

The following final touches of the new management are apparently what made the long awaited quantum leap possible: A new product development philosophy fo…

J.D. Edwards Finds Its Inner-Self Within Its 5th Incarnation This is yet another example of what difference a year can make, and of a vendor taking advant…

In commercial and consumer transactions, a warranty is a collateral assurance or guarantee that certain facets of an article or service sold is as factual…

There are two distribution channels for federal student loans: Federal Direct Student Loans and Federal Family Education Loans. * Federal Direct Stude…

Usually these are PLUS loans (formerly standing for "Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students"). Unlike loans made to students, parents can borrow…

Students who borrow money for education through Stafford loans cannot exceed certain aggregate limits for subsidized and unsubsidized loans. For undergrad…

Federal student loans in the United States are authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act as amended. These loans are available to college and …

Financial Instruments There are several types of financial instruments commonly used. Forwards One way to deal with the Forex risk is to engage in a forwa…

Transaction Costs and Market Makers Market makers are compensated for allowing clients to enter the market. They take part or all of the spread in all cur…

Retail forex In financial markets, the retail forex (retail off-exchange currency trading or retail FX) market is a subset of the larger foreign exchange …

Foreign currency mortgage A foreign currency mortgage is a mortgage which is repayable in a currency other than the currency of the country in which the b…

Not beating the market The foreign exchange market is a zero sum game[7] in which there are many experienced well-capitalized professional traders (e.g. w…

Forex scam A forex (or foreign exchange) scam is any trading scheme used to defraud traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit …

Special Drawing Rights SDRs are defined in terms of a basket of major currencies used in international trade and finance. At present, the currencies in th…

Russia and China call for global reserve currency On March 16, 2009, in connection with the April 2009 G20 summit, the Kremlin called for a supranational …

Digital gold currency Digital gold currency (or DGC) is a form of electronic money based on ounces of gold. It is a kind of representative money, like a U…

Latin America United States relations The United States has always had a special conception of its relationship with the nations of Latin America. In the …

Imperialism in Asia Imperialism in Asia traces its roots back to the late fifteenth century with a series of voyages that sought a sea passage to India in…

"Dollar Diplomacy" in the Americas The outgoing President Theodore Roosevelt laid the foundation for this approach in 1904 with his Roosevelt Co…

Dollar Diplomacy Dollar Diplomacy is the term used to describe the effort of the United States particularly under President William Howard Taft to further…

Dollar hegemony Dollar hegemony is a term coined by Henry C.K. Liu to describe the US dollar in the global economy. Liu popularized the term in a widely c…

World Currency Unit The World Currency Unit (WCU) is an indexed unit of account (unit of account) that stands for a unit of real global purchasing power. …

Economic difficulties Some economists argue that a single world currency is unnecessary, because the U.S. dollar already provides many of the benefits of …

Economic difficulties Some economists argue that a single world currency is unnecessary, because the U.S. dollar already provides many of the benefits of …

Loss of national monetary policy One currency can only be provided by one institution printing and setting the interest rate on money deposited or lent to…

Russia and China call for global reserve currency On March 16, 2009, in connection with the April 2009 G20 summit, the Kremlin called for a supranational …

Hypothetical single supranational currency An alternative definition of a world or global currency refers to a hypothetical single global currency or supe…

History:Spanish dollar: 17th-19th centuries Spanish dollar: 17th-19th centuries In the 17th and 18th century, the use of silver Spanish dollars or "p…

The euro and the United States dollar Since the mid-20th century, the de facto world currency has been the United States dollar. According to Robert Gilpi…