In political science, nonpartisanism is a lack of affiliation with a political party.

Some organizations claiming to be nonpartisan are truly such; others are nominally nonpartisan (for reasons of law or public perception) but closely follow the policies of a political party.

A budget is a quantitative expression of a financial plan for a defined period of time.

It may include planned sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities, costs and expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows.

It expresses strategic plans of business units, organizations, activities or events in measurable terms.

The LRC (a bilingual acronym: in; in) is a series of lightweight diesel-powered passenger trains that were used on short- to medium-distance inter-city service in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

It originally consisted of both locomotives and passenger carriages designed to work together, though the two can be (and now are) used separately.

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

Legislatures form important parts of most governments; in the separation of powers model, they are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches of government.

Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments.

It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk.

Finance can also be defined as the science of money management.

Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return.

Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.