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What is the primary purpose of factoring for a business?

  • To increase assets
  • To decrease liabilities
  • To increase profit
  • To meet present and immediate cash needs (correct)
  • What is another term commonly used to refer to factoring?

  • Accounts receivable financing (correct)
  • Invoice discounting
  • Debtor finance
  • Asset-based lending
  • What is the difference between factoring and invoice discounting in the United States?

  • Factoring and invoice discounting are the same
  • Factoring involves selling invoices at a discount, while invoice discounting involves lending against accounts receivable (correct)
  • Factoring involves lending against accounts receivable, while invoice discounting involves selling invoices at a discount
  • Factoring is called an assignment of accounts receivable, while invoice discounting is not
  • What is Forfaiting in the context of international trade finance?

    <p>A factoring arrangement used by exporters to sell their receivables</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of the Commercial Finance Association?

    <p>It is the leading trade association of the asset-based lending and factoring industries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a von Neumann algebra?

    <p>A *-algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology and contains the identity operator</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who introduced von Neumann algebras?

    <p>John von Neumann</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the double commutant theorem show in regards to von Neumann algebras?

    <p>That the analytic definition is equivalent to a purely algebraic definition as an algebra of symmetries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a commutative von Neumann algebra?

    <p>The ring $L^{\infty }(\mathbb {R} )$ of essentially bounded measurable functions on the real line</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do the elements of the commutative von Neumann algebra $L^{\infty }(\mathbb {R} )$ act as?

    <p>Multiplication operators by pointwise multiplication on the Hilbert space $L^{2}(\mathbb {R} )$</p> Signup and view all the answers

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