Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• EQUITY METHOD - An accounting method used to reflect an investor's interest in a company. This method i...
  
  
• EQUITY METHOD OF ACCOUNTING - Investors cost basis is adjusted up or down (in proportion to the % of st...
  
  
• EQUITY MORTGAGE - A loan secured by the part of the value of an asset (usually house) which you own.
  
  
• EQUITY MULTIPLIER - Total assets divided by total common stockholders' equity; the total assets per dol...
  
  
• EQUITY MULTIPLIER (EM) - shows the amount of assets owned by the firm for each equivalent monetary unit...
  
  
• EQUITY OF REDEMPTION - The right a borrower has to pay out in full a mortgage against a property that h...
  
  
• EQUITY OFFERING - see EQUITY CAPITAL.
  
  
• EQUITY OPTIONS - Securities that give the holder the right (but not the obligation) to buy or sell a sp...
  
  
• EQUITY PARTICIPATION - An ownership position in an organization or venture taken through an investment....
  
  
• EQUITY REIT - A Real Estate Investment Trust that assumes ownership status in the property it invests i...