ACQUISITION ACCOUNTING
A group of formal guidelines which describes how the liabilities, assets, goodwill of a target company and non-controlling interest must be reported by a buying company on its Consolidated Statement of Financial Position. With acquisition accounting, the acquired firm's fair market value is placed bet the intangible and tangible assets portion of the acquiring firm's balance sheet; any difference is considered as goodwill. Also referred as "business combination accounting."
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission - CFTC
Independent federal agency in the United States regulating the commodity futures and options markets. A product of the Commodity Futures Trading Co ...
Accelerated Amortization
It is an extra payment that is made toward a mortgage principal. By using accelerated amortization, the loan borrower can pay additional payment to ...
SFC
Securities And Futures Commission (SFC) is a regulatory body created by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFCO) for Hong Kong that regulates a ...
Raider
A raider is a person that attempts to take over a company through making a hostile takeover bid. Raiders target companies with undervalued assets a ...
Net Sales
It refers to the gross revenues minus returns and discounts of a company. It is the amount presented in an income statement under sales revenue.
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Retirement Planning: Creating a Nest Egg
Last time, we discuss the different income sources for building a retirement fund. We shall now tackle the ways to create a retirement nest egg.
Retirement Planning: The Significance of Retirement
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An Introduction to Ethical Investing
Ethical investing is, simply put, investing while taking into consideration your personal beliefs or your ethics. Because it is personal, it means ...
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