Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PROVISION FOR CREDIT LOSSES - The amount deducted from income equal to the amount by which a bank adjus...
  
  
• PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES - An amount on the P & I statement that estimates a company's total income t...
  
  
• PROVISIONAL CALL FEATURE - A stipulation in a convertible issue that allows the issuer to call the issu...
  
  
• PROVISIONAL CALL PROTECTION - See soft call protection.
  
  
• PROVISIONAL CREDIT - credit given when a check is deposited
  
  
• PROX - see PROXIMO.
  
  
• PROXIMO - (usually abbreviated to 'PROX') means of or in the following month.
  
  
• PROXY - If you own common stock in a US corporation, you have the right to vote on company policies and...
  
  
• PROXY BATTLE - Strategy used by an acquiring company in a hostile takeover attempt whereby the acquirer...
  
  
• PROXY BATTLES - Take place when the agenda items at the meeting are likely to be opposed by dissident s...