Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEDUCTIONS - Tax deductions are expenses the IRS allows you to subtract from your taxable income. If yo...
  
  
• DEDUCTIVE ACCOUNTING THEORY - (mathematical method) assumes that optimal accounting standards and repor...
  
  
• DEDUCTIVE LOGIC - Logic traditionally used in expert systems, which defines a method for reasoning from...
  
  
• DEDUCTIVE REASONING - Using known facts to draw a conclusion about a specific situation.
  
  
• DEED - A formal written instrument by which title to real property is transferred from one owner to ano...
  
  
• DEED BOOKS - The permanent record of deeds registered in a particular jurisdiction. Also known as "libe...
  
  
• DEED EXECUTED PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER - Executors' and administrator' deeds, masters' deeds, sheriffs' ...
  
  
• DEED GIVEN TO SECURE A DEBT - a form of mortgage in which title to the property is conveyed from the bo...
  
  
• DEED IN LIEU - A deed given by a mortgagor to a mortgagee to satisfy a debt and avoid foreclosure.
  
  
• DEED IN LIEU OF FORECLOSURE - Voluntarily signing over to a lender the property pledged as collateral o...