Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CONTINUOUS INVENTORY - see PERPETUAL INVENTORY.
  
  
• CONTINUOUS NET SETTLEMENT (CNS) - Method of securities clearing and settlement using a clearing house, ...
  
  
• CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLE - A random value that can take any fractional value within specified ranges,...
  
  
• CONTINUOUS REPO - A repo/reverse repo transaction that does not have a specified term. These transactio...
  
  
• CONTRA - The setting off of mutual debt. For example, if a company owes $100 to another company that i...
  
  
• CONTRA ACCOUNT - 1. is the reduction to the gross cost of an asset to arrive at the net cost; also know...
  
  
• CONTRA ASSET - an item that is entered on the asset side of an accounting ledger even though the item h...
  
  
• CONTRA BROKER - The broker on the buy side of a sell order or the sell side of a buy order.
  
  
• CONTRA LIABILITY - A liability account that normally has a debit balance.
  
  
• CONTRACT - In real estate parlance, the contract is the legal document by which buyer and seller make o...