Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIRECT QUOTE - For foreign exchange, the number of US dollars needed to buy one unit of a foreign curre...
  
  
• DIRECT REDUCTION MORTGAGE - a type of mortgage in which at least a portion of each payment is applied d...
  
  
• DIRECT REGISTRATION SYSTEM - A system, sometimes referred to as DRS, that allows electronic direct regi...
  
  
• DIRECT ROLLOVER - Movement of tax-deferred retirement plan money from one qualified plan or custodian t...
  
  
• DIRECT SEARCH MARKET - Buyers and sellers seek each other directly and transact directly.
  
  
• DIRECT STOCK-PURCHASE PROGRAMS - Investors purchase securities directly from the issuer.
  
  
• DIRECT TAX - A tax that you pay directly, as opposed to indirect taxes, such as tariffs and business ta...
  
  
• DIRECT TERMS - The price of a unit of foreign currency in domestic currency terms, such as $.9850/Euro ...
  
  
• DIRECT VERIFICATION - The audit procedure of mailing the account debtor a note requesting the account d...
  
  
• DIRECT WRITE-OFF METHOD - a method of recognition of uncollectible accounts only when known to be such.