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.
On the piano, the quintessential tonal instrument, the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones represented by the seven white and five black keys. But consider the zoomoozophone, invented in 1978 by Dean Drummond, a founder of New York's Newband. It which resembles a marimba but is 20 feet long and flexible, the octave is divided into 31 parts and thus is capable of producing many more subleties of pitch variation than the piano.