Q&A. While we often think of expenses as salaries, advertising, rent, interest, and so on, the cost of goods sold is also an expense. The cost of goods that were sold needs to be matched with the pertinent sales on the income statement, just as commission expense must be matched with sales or other revenues.
Part of the Network security glossary: OCTAVE (Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation) is a security framework for determining risk level and planning defenses against cyber assaults.CTAVE is designed to leverage the experience and expertise of people within the organization. The first step is to construct profiles of threats based on the relative risk that they pose. The process goes on to conduct a vulnerability assessment specific to the organization.
n (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) the entire scale of musical notes. a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones. a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave. a musical scale with fewer than seven notes. a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted. any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.