Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PARCEL - A piece of land or property under one ownership. Parcels are created when a single large prope...
  
  
• PARCEL REGISTER - The abstract index for a property registered in the Torrens System of land registrati...
  
  
• PARENT COMPANY - A company that controls subsidiaries through its ownership of voting stock, as well as...
  
  
• PARENT ENTITY - see PARENT COMPANY.
  
  
• PARETO PRINCIPLE/LAW - see 80-20 RULE.
  
  
• PARETO'S LAW - A law that states that 80% of results come from 20% of the effort.
  
  
• PARI PASSU - a legal term referring to the equal treatment of two or more parties in an agreement. For ...
  
  
• PARIS BOURSE - National stock market of France.
  
  
• PARIS INTERBANK OFFER RATE (PIBOR) - The deposit rate on interbank transactions in the Eurocurrency mar...
  
  
• PARITY - For convertibles, level at which a convertible security's market price equals the aggregate va...