(business, accounting) A financial metric that is a measure of current assets of a business that exceeds its liabilities and can be applied to its operation

plural of capital market

(economics) A decrease in the value of a capital asset / (business, finance) An amount by which the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner are less than its cost to the owner.

(economics) An increase in the value of a capital asset / (business, finance) An amount by which the value or the proceeds of the sale of a capital asset by its owner exceed its cost to the owner.

(accounting) An asset that is recorded on a balance sheet as capital - that is, property that creates more property, such as a factory that creates shoes, or a forest that yields a quantity of wood.

(economics) Capital that is not financial capital, such as shovels for gravediggers, sewing machines for tailors, or machinery for manufacturing firms.

(economics) The money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or provide their services.

(economics) A capitalist economic system with some variety of state guidance.

plural of capital account

(economics) Real or financial capital, or the two together.