Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CONSUMPTION TAX - See: Value-added tax
  
  
• CONTAGION - Excess correlation of delivering or bond returns. For example, under usual conditions we mi...
  
  
• CONTANGO - The price of a futures contract tends to reflect the cost of storage, insurance, financing, ...
  
  
• CONTEMPORANEOUS RESERVE ACCOUNTING - An accounting method that allows member banks of the Federal Reser...
  
  
• CONTEST OF A WILL - Legal proceedings to prevent or alter distribution of estate assets as described in...
  
  
• CONTESTED FORECLOSURE - When a mortgagor responds (answers) a Foreclosure Complaint disagreeing with so...
  
  
• CONTESTED MATTER - a dispute among the parties to a bankruptcy proceeding, instituted by the filing of ...
  
  
• CONTIGUOUS LOTS - Pieces of real estate that are next to each other.
  
  
• CONTIGUOUS SPACE - Multiple suites/spaces within the same building and on the same floor that can be co...
  
  
• CONTINENTAL MODEL - is an accounting model. There are other accounting systems which differ from the U....