Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ABUSIVE TAX SHELTER - A limited partnership that the IRS judges to be claiming tax deductions illegally...
  
  
• ABUT - Adjoin or share a common boundary, or share even a small portion of a boundary.
  
  
• AC-DC OPTION - An option that the owner could choose to become at some future date either a Call or a P...
  
  
• ACADEMIC CONSULTANTS - An advisory group initiated by the Board in the 1960's to provide a forum for th...
  
  
• ACAT - (Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation) is a national organization established in 1...
  
  
• ACATS - Is the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service.
  
  
• ACB - normally refers to 'adjusted cost base.'
  
  
• ACCELERATED AMORTIZATION - the restructuring of an existing mortgage loan by increasing the monthly pay...
  
  
• ACCELERATED APPROVAL - A process for having your loan approved quickly and without some of the usual ch...
  
  
• ACCELERATED COST RECOVERY SYSTEM - Commonly referred to as ACRS (prounounced "acres"), a method of depr...