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SPECULATOR Definition
SPECULATOR is an investor who is willing to accept substantial risk for the possibility of a large return.
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TARE WEIGHT is the weight of packing container and packaging material without the weight of the goods contained therein.
LINEAR PROGRAMMING (LP), in accounting, is the mathematical approach to optimally allocating limited resources among competing activities. It is a technique used to maximize revenue, contribution margin, and profit function; or, to minimize a cost function, subject to constraints. Linear programming consists of two ingredients: (1) objective function and (2) constraints, both of which are linear. In formulating the LP problem, the first step is to define the decision variables that one is trying to solve. The next step is to formulate the objective function and constraints in terms of these decision variables.
