Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• IMPAIRED GOODWILL - the recognition of the reduction in value of the intangible asset known as goodwill...
  
  
• IMPAIRMENT - when a plan of reorganization alters the contractual rights of a class of holders of claim...
  
  
• IMPAIRMENT OF VALUE - the permanent decline in the value of an asset. The entry is to debit the loss ac...
  
  
• IMPERFECT MARKET - Economic environment in which the costs of labor and other resources used for produc...
  
  
• IMPLEMENTATION LAG - The time it takes for policymakers to act once they recognize an economic conditio...
  
  
• IMPLICIT BANKRUPTCY COSTS - Opportunity costs incurred prior to the bankruptcy process such as the loss...
  
  
• IMPLICIT OPTION - See Embedded Option.
  
  
• IMPLICIT RATE OF INTEREST - when the stated interest rate is not indicative of the market rate at the t...
  
  
• IMPLICIT TAX - Lower or higher before-tax required returns on assets that are subject to lower or highe...
  
  
• IMPLIED AGENCY - An agency agreement created by the actions of the parties, and not a stated (written o...