CONTINGENCY
- Possible negative economic event or circumstance that may emerge in the future.
- In finance, determining and planning any contingencies which may possibly occur. To mitigate the risk, financial managers often take the conservative side, presuming slightly worse than anticipated outcomes, and arrange a firm’s affairs so it can withstand any negative outcome with the least distress possible.
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Highly Leveraged Transaction - HLT
HLT is a loan provided from a financial institution to a company that has a large debt amount already. The existing large amount of debt only means ...
Form 5
A document that must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by an insider who has conducted insider transactions during the yea ...
Countersignature
Additional signature from an official or professional on a document that has already been signed. Serving as confirmation or authentication, it is ...
Average Collection Period
The amount of time for a business to receive payments owed.
Primary Regulator
The state or federal agency with main supervisory responsibility for a financial institution. Banks and other financial institutions will have to f ...
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