Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ACROSS THE BOARD - Movement or trend in the stock market that causes all stocks in all sectors to move ...
  
  
• ACRS - Tax shorthand (pronounced "acres") for Accelerated Cost Recovery System, a depreciation method u...
  
  
• ACRS (ACCELERATED COST RECOVERY SYSTEM) - Schedule of depreciation rates allowed for tax purposes.
  
  
• ACSEC - Accounting Standards Executive Committee (of the American Institute of Certified Public Account...
  
  
• ACSSS - American Council of State Savings Supervisors
  
  
• ACT - A bill which has passed through the various legislative steps and, hence, has become law.
  
  
• ACT OF GOD - When used in insurance policies, an event caused by natural forces such as rain, lightning...
  
  
• ACT OF STATE DOCTRINE - This doctrine says that a nation is sovereign within its own borders, and its d...
  
  
• ACT-OF-GOD BOND - A Catastrophe Bond (q.v.). (Source: Sophie Belcher, "USAA to Try Again with Hurricane...
  
  
• ACTING IN CONCERT - Investors working together and performing identical actions to attain the same inve...