Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PUMP AND DUMP - Refers to actions by brokers or market makers to attract new buyers. Here, the brokers ...
  
  
• PUMP-OVER - An intra- or inter-facility transfer. For example, when one pipeline pumps crude oil or ref...
  
  
• PUNCH LIST - a record of incomplete or unsatisfactory construction items covered by a contract, usually...
  
  
• PUNITIVE DAMAGES - Damages awarded to one party to punish another party for dishonest conduct. Meant to...
  
  
• PUNT - Is the Irish Currency or Irish Pound. Punt also refers to getting out of or closing a market pos...
  
  
• PUR ANTRE VIE - "For the life of another." A life estate pur autre vie is a life estate that is measure...
  
  
• PURCHASE - Buy; be long; have an ownership position.
  
  
• PURCHASE (METHOD) - A method of accounting treatment for a merger based on the market price paid for th...
  
  
• PURCHASE ACCOUNT - an account in which all inventory purchases are recorded; used with the periodic inv...
  
  
• PURCHASE ACCOUNTING - Method of accounting for a merger that treats the acquirer as having purchased th...