Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BOOK-ENTRY SECURITY - Book-entry securities are electronic versions of stock and bond certificates. Ins...
  
  
• BOOK-TO-MARKET - the ratio of the firm's book equity to market equity.
  
  
• BOOKBUILD - a particular way of conducting a float where the price at which shares are sold is not fixe...
  
  
• BOOKBUILDING - Process pursuant to which the lead underwriter(s) in a public offering solicit instituti...
  
  
• BOOKING - in import / export, is an arrangement with a shipping company to load and carry a shipment.
  
  
• BOOKING FEE - A fee paid for the arrangement of a mortgage.
  
  
• BOOKKEEPING - the art, practice, or labor involved in the systematic recording of the transactions affe...
  
  
• BOOKRUNNER - The underwriter in charge of the bookbuilding process.
  
  
• BOOKS - Refer to the accounting records or the Official Books and Records of an organization, person, o...
  
  
• BOOKS OF ACCOUNT - are the financial records of a business. Usually refers to the lowest level of recor...