Composition Arrangement that is voluntarily undertaken to restructure debt so as to reduce payments payable by a firm. … [Read more...]
Compound Interest
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Compound Interest Payment of interest on the principal plus already earned interest. … [Read more...]
Compound Option
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Compound Option Any option that allows the holder to purchase another. … [Read more...]
Compounding
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Compounding Accumulation carried out forward in time for the time value of money. As an example, interest earnings of one period earn more interest over every succeeding one. … [Read more...]
Compounding Frequency
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Compounding Frequency In one year the number of periods in which compounding of interest is carried out. In quarterly compounding the interest is compounded 4 times. … [Read more...]
Compounding Period
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Compounding Period Extent of time that elapses before compounding of interest takes place. For instance, in the case of quarterly compounding, the time elapsed is a quarter. … [Read more...]
Comprehensive Due Diligence Investigation
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Comprehensive Due Diligence Investigation Evaluation of firm’s financial abilities and business structure when it makes a securities offering to ensure that all pertinent details and future prospects are disclosed to the public by means of the prospectus. … [Read more...]
Concentration Account
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Concentration Account The central account that is the recipient of funds transferred from different lockboxes at various locations. … [Read more...]
Concentration Bank
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Concentration Bank Primary bank of any organization, or the bank where most transactions are conducted by the organization. Most organizations use several banks, but a significant number and quantity of dealings are done with one bank. … [Read more...]
Concentration Services
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Concentration Services Transferring cash to one concentration account from various lockbox locations so as to make investments and disbursements. … [Read more...]
Concession Agreement
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Concession Agreement Formal understanding that a company has with host government outlining the various rules for carrying out local business operations. … [Read more...]
Conditional Sales Contracts
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Conditional Sales Contracts Contracts that have several similarities with equipment trust certificates but the lenders are usually the manufacturer of equipment or financial institution or company that has bought the conditional sales contract from the manufacturer. … [Read more...]
Confidence Indicator
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Confidence Indicator Evaluates investor confidence in the economy and markets. Low confidence level is considered a sign of a bear trend by technical analysts. … [Read more...]
Confidence Level
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Confidence Level Extent of assurance present that a given failure level is not crossed. … [Read more...]
Confirmation
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Confirmation A written statement following a security trade. A confirmation may be issued once after the execution detailing commission, settlement date and terms. … [Read more...]
Conflict Between Bondholders and Stockholders
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Conflict Between Bondholders and Stockholders Bondholders and stockholders may have conflicting interest in a corporation in areas such as dividends, underinvestment and distortion of investment. Protective covenants are established to avoid such problems. … [Read more...]
Conglomerate
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Conglomerate Company that has interest and operations in two or many non related areas. … [Read more...]
Conglomerate Merger
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Conglomerate Merger Merger of two or many companies that may be engaged in different, non related business activities. … [Read more...]
Consensus Forecast
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Consensus Forecast A mean value determined from all the forecasts made for a company by financial analysts. … [Read more...]
Consequential Loss
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Consequential Loss Loss arising from non usage of business property or equipment due to uncontrollable reasons. Considered an indirect loss as compared to direct losses that are covered under different types of insurance. … [Read more...]
