Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BALANCED SCORECARD (BSC) - a strategic management system based upon measuring key performance indicator...
  
  
• BALANCED TRUST - A "combination trust" is referred to as a "balanced trust" in California. (See combina...
  
  
• BALLOON - The loan balance remaining at the time the loan contract calls for full repayment.
  
  
• BALLOON (PAYMENT) MORTGAGE - Usually a short-term fixed-rate loan which involves small payments for a c...
  
  
• BALLOON INTEREST - In the context of serial bond issues, the elevated coupon rate on bonds with late ma...
  
  
• BALLOON LOAN - A loan in which the payments aren't set up to repay the loan in full by the end of the t...
  
  
• BALLOON LOAN / MORTGAGE - A loan which is repaid by a series of small, periodic payments until a given ...
  
  
• BALLOON MATURITY - Any large principal payment due at maturity for a bond or loan with or without a sin...
  
  
• BALLOON MORTGAGE - A mortgage which is payable in full after a period that is shorter than the term. I...
  
  
• BALLOON NOTE - A note calling for periodic payments which are insufficient to fully amortize the face a...