A
- Ability to pay
- Account class
- Accounting
- Accounting principles
- Accounting software
- Accounting system
- Accounts receivable
- Accrual accounting
- Advance payment
- Annual report
- Assets
- Association
- Audit
- Auditor
B
- Bad debt
- Balance
- Balance sheet
- Bank deposit
- Bank reconciliation
- Board
- Bond
- Bookkeeping
- Break-even point
- Budget
- Business
- Business number
- Business plan
C
- Capital
- Cash balance
- Cash flow
- Cash flow budget
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Claim
- Commission
- Conglomerate
- Cost
- Cost price
- Credited invoice
- Credit in accounting
- Credit note
- Creditor
- CRM
- CSV file
- Currency
- Current assets
- Customer
- Customer list
D
- Deadline
- Debit
- Debiting
- Debt
- Debt collection
- Debtor
- Delay interest
- Depreciation
- Deviation
- Discount rate
- Dividend
- Documentation
- Double entry bookkeeping
E
- EInvoicng
- Electronic archive
- Ending balance
- Equity
- Expense
F
- Factoring
- Fee
- FIFO
- Financial accounting
- Financial capital
- Fiscal year
- Fixed assets
- Fraud
- Freelancer
- Full-time equivalent (FTE)
G
- GDP
- General ledger
- General meeting
- Goodwill
- Gross and net
- Gross profit
- Group contribution
H
- Holding company
I
- IBAN
- IFRS
- Income
- Income statement
- Incoming invoice
- Inflation
- Intangible assets
- Interest
- Inventory management
- Inventory management system
- Investment company
- Invoice
- Invoice number
- Invoice sales
- Invoice scanning
- Invoice template
- Invoicing
- Invoicing software
J
K
- Key performance indicator (KPI)
L
- Late fee
- Late payment fee
- Late payment interest
- Legal entity/person
- Linear depreciation
- Liquid assets
- Liquidity
M
- Means of payment
N
- Nominal interest rate
O
- Opening balance
- Operating accounting
- Operating assets
- Operating cost
- Operating expenditure
- Operating profit
- Outgoing invoice
- Outsourcing
- Overdraft
- Overtime
P
- Packing slip
- Parent company
- Payment ability
- Payment reminder
- Payroll software
- Point of sale system (POS)
- Premium rate
- Profit
- Profit margin
- Proforma invoice
- Project accounting
- Purchase cost
Q
- Quoting software
R
- Receipt
- Receipt scanning
- Reconciliation
- Reputation
- Result
- Return on investment
- Rounding
S
- Salary
- Scrap value
- Shareholder register
- Shelf company
- Solvency
- Stock
- Supplier
- Supplier credit
- Supplier debt
- Supplier list
- SWIFT
T
- Tax
- Tax deduction
- Time tracking
- Transaction
- Travel expenses
- Trial balance
- Turnover
U
V
- Variable costs
- Voucher
W
- Wage cost
X
Y
Z

What is interest

Interest is the cost you pay to borrow capital and is a kind of compensation for borrowing money. Interest is often a percentage of the loan amount. When you have a loan, you pay both towards the loan and the interest for taking out the loan. You can also receive interest on your bank account from the bank.

Interest can consist of three different parts. It can be compensation from the lender for providing capital. A risk premium that gives the lender a bonus for the risk of the loan. Or compensation for inflation if inflation can rise for a period.

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