Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CHAIN - An old unit of measurement of land, measuring 66 feet in length. A chain equals 100 links, each...
  
  
• CHAIN OF TITLE - A part of a title search. A listing, in chronological order, of successive legal owner...
  
  
• CHAIR OF THE BOARD - Highest-ranking member of a Board of Directors, who presides over its meetings and...
  
  
• CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - Highest-ranking director in a corporation's board of directors.
  
  
• CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD - is the head of the board of directors of a corporation, and generally consid...
  
  
• CHANDLER ACT OF 1938 - legislation providing substantial modifications to the Bankruptcy Act of 1898.
  
  
• CHANGE - money returned from the seller to the buyer when the buyer gives a sum of money greater than t...
  
  
• CHANGE FREQUENCY - Term describing the period of time between changes in the interest rate and/or payme...
  
  
• CHANGE IN FACTOR AMORTIZATION - See level factor amortization.
  
  
• CHANGE OF CONTROL BONUS - a bonus of cash or stock given by private equity investors to members of a ma...