Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS AUDIT (BPA) - similar to the Audit Bureau of Circulation; the BPA is a third-part...
  
  
• BUSINESS RISK - The risk that the cash flow of an issuer will be impaired because of adverse economic c...
  
  
• BUSINESS SEGMENT - a component of an enterprise that (a) provides a single product or service or a grou...
  
  
• BUSINESS SEGMENT REPORTING - Reporting the results of the separate divisions or subsidiaries of a busin...
  
  
• BUSINESS TRANSACTION - see TRANSACTION.
  
  
• BUSINESS UNIT - equivalent to a wholly owned subsidiary except that it is not treated as a separate leg...
  
  
• BUSINESS VALUATION - determines the price that a hypothetical buyer would pay for a business under a gi...
  
  
• BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS (B2B) - Communications and transactions conducted between businesses, as opposed t...
  
  
• BUST-UP TAKEOVER - A leveraged buyout in which the buyer sells off the assets of the target company to ...
  
  
• BUSTED CONVERTIBLE - Related: Fixed income equivalent. Mainly applies to convertible securities. Conver...