BEST BID is the highest quoted bid of all competing Market Makers to buy a particular stock at any given time.
NEGATIVE ASSURANCE, in accounting, is a statement of what the CPA does not know as opposed to what the CPA believes (positive assurance). A statement that the CPA was "not aware of material modifications that should be made to financial statements for them to conform with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles" is negative assurance used in review reports.
OBJECT COST is the total cost of producing an item: direct cost (labor & material) + overhead cost = Total Object Cost.
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