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Banking Terms - WWeb Currency and Banking Retrieval System (Web CBRS) -
weighted average capital cost (WACC) - (the cost of capital computed by weighting the percentage cost of each component by the percentage of that component in the financial structure)
weighted average cost of capital (WACC) - (a corporation's costs of capital derived from and weighted in proportion to the capital structure of its equity and debt finance)
Weighted Average Coupon (WAC) - (weighted average of the underlying coupon interest rates of mortgage or other loans, as of the issue date, using the balance of each mortgage as the weighting factor)
Weighted Average Maturity (WAM) - (weighted average life of the remaining terms to maturity of the underlying loans of a mortgage certificate at the issue date, using the balance of each loan as the weighting factor)
Weighted Average Remaining Term (WART) - (remaining maturity of mortgage-backed securities or asset-backed securities at any given point in their life, measured in months)
work-in-process (WIP) - (partially completed goods of a manufacturing process before they are completed and classified as finished goods to be treated as inventory)
work-in-progress (WIP) - (an alternative term for work-in-process, used in the UK and British-influenced accounting systems - partially completed goods of a manufacturing process before they are completed and classified as finished goods to be treated as inventory)
Workmen's Compensation Act (WCA) -
World Bank Group (WBG) - (collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank), which helps finance commercial and infrastructure projects in developing nations)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - (an international organization dedicated to the promotion of environmental and social sustainability)
World Trade Organization (WTO) - (an organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland, that promotes international free trade)
World Wide Web (WWW) - (Internet system for worldwide hypertext linking of multimedia documents)