Match the following with the items below:

1. "temporary" current assets	Long-term interest rates reflect the average of expected short-term rates over the life of the long-term security.	____
2. self-liquidating assets	The financing and management of the current assets of the firm.	____
3. level production	Assets that are assumed to be long term in nature.	____
4. working capital management	Current assets that will not be reduced or converted to cash within the normal operating cycle of the firm.	____
5. expected value	Depicts in graphical form the relationship between interest rates and maturities for securities of equal risk.	____
6. trade credit	Financing provided by sellers or suppliers in the normal course of business.	____
7. market segmentation theory	Time periods in which financing may be difficult to find and interest rates may be quite high by normal standards.	____
8. point of sales terminals	Equal monthly production used to smooth out production schedules and employ manpower and equipment more efficiently.	____
9. term structure of interest rates	A representative quantity from a probability distribution arrived at by multiplying each outcome times the associated probability and summing up the products.	____
10. expectations hypothesis	Current assets that will be reduced or converted to cash within the normal operating cycle of the firm.	____
11. tight money	The relative convertibility of short-term assets to cash.	____
12. Liquidity	Computer terminals in retail stores that may be used for inventory control or other purposes.	____
13. "permanent" current assets	Assets that are converted to cash within the normal operating cycle of the firm.	____
14. fixed assets	The relationship of short and long-term interest rates relies on the maturity preference of various financial institutions.	____