Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CONVEY - the act of transferring title to real property from one party to another.
  
  
• CONVEYANCE - Most commonly refers to the transfer of title to property between parties by deed. The ter...
  
  
• CONVEYANCE TAX - A tax on the transfer of real property.
  
  
• CONVEYANCER - A person, used as an alternative to a solicitor, to carry out the legal work involved in ...
  
  
• CONVEYANCING - The sometimes costly process of transferring a home’s official ownership from one owner ...
  
  
• COO - is an acronym for Chief Operating Officer. The COO is responsible for the day-to-day management o...
  
  
• COOK THE BOOKS - To deliberately falsify the financial statements of a company. This is an illegal prac...
  
  
• COOKIE JAR RESERVES - is an overly aggressive accrual of operating expenses and the creation of liabili...
  
  
• COOKIES - stored information placed on consumers' hard drives to track their Internet usage
  
  
• COOKING THE BOOKS - is when a company fraudulently misrepresents the financial condition of a company b...