Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PRINCIPLE OF PROGRESSION - The notion that a smaller house's value will be enhanced if it is near large...
  
  
• PRINCIPLE OF REGRESSION - The notion that the value of a larger or fancier house will be reduced if it ...
  
  
• PRINCIPLE, INTEREST, TAXES, AND INSURANCE (PITI) - The four components of a monthly mortgage payment. P...
  
  
• PRINT - Used in the context of general equities. As a verb execute a trade, evidenced by its printing o...
  
  
• PRIOR APPROPRIATION - A concept of water ownership in which the landowner's right to use available wate...
  
  
• PRIOR LIEN - a mortgage that ranks ahead of another.
  
  
• PRIOR PERIOD - refers to accounting periods that have occurred in the past. See also ACCOUNTING PERIOD.
  
  
• PRIOR PREFERRED - A preferred stock which in the liquidation of the issuing company would rank ahead of...
  
  
• PRIOR SERVICE COSTS - Costs that arise from amendments to defined benefit pension plans that retroactiv...
  
  
• PRIOR-LIEN BOND - A bond usually arising from reorganization with precedence over another bond of the s...