Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• COO - is an acronym for Chief Operating Officer. The COO is responsible for the day-to-day management o...
  
  
• COOK THE BOOKS - To deliberately falsify the financial statements of a company. This is an illegal prac...
  
  
• COOKIE JAR RESERVES - is an overly aggressive accrual of operating expenses and the creation of liabili...
  
  
• COOKIES - stored information placed on consumers' hard drives to track their Internet usage
  
  
• COOKING THE BOOKS - is when a company fraudulently misrepresents the financial condition of a company b...
  
  
• COOLING-OFF PERIOD - The period of time between the filing of a preliminary prospectus with the Securit...
  
  
• COOLING-OFF RULE - If you decide you arent comfortable with a contract after you sign it, cooling-off r...
  
  
• COOPERATING BROKER - A broker who assists another broker in the sale of real property. Usually the coop...
  
  
• COOPERATING BROKER FEE AGREEMENT - An agreement between brokers specifying the commission split should ...
  
  
• COOPERATIVE - a system of indirect ownership of a single unit in a multi-unit structure. The individual...