Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENT - Also known as Individual Retirement Account. A type of savings acco...
  
  
• INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT (ISA) - ISAs started in April 1999 and replace PEPs and TESSAs. This year yo...
  
  
• INDIVIDUAL TAX RETURN - A tax return filed by an individual to account for their personal income and ta...
  
  
• INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER - The taxpayer identification number for persons who do not q...
  
  
• INDOOR AIR - Breathing air inside a habitable structure, often highly polluted because of lack of excha...
  
  
• INDUCEMENT - a reward for a specific behavior, designed to encourage that behavior; also called incenti...
  
  
• INDUCTIVE ACCOUNTING THEORY - (scientific method) assumes accounting standards are somewhat like evolut...
  
  
• INDUCTIVE LOGIC - The progress from statements describing particular events to a general statement.
  
  
• INDUCTIVE REASONING - The attempt to use information about a specific situation to draw a conclusion.
  
  
• INDUSTRIAL BANK - a limited service financial institution that raises funds by selling certificates cal...