Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY - This approach to making investment decisions focuses on potential return in r...
  
  
• MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY (MPT) - An approach to quantifying risk and return in a portfolio of assets. De...
  
  
• MODIFICATION - Occasionally, a lender will agree to modify the terms of your mortgage without requiring...
  
  
• MODIFICATION (OF CONTRACT) - A change to the terms of a contract.
  
  
• MODIFICATION AGREEMENT - a written agreement between a financial institution and a borrower that change...
  
  
• MODIFIED ACCELERATED COST RECOVERY SYSTEM - Commonly referred to as MACRS(pronounced "makers"), a depre...
  
  
• MODIFIED ACCELERATED COST RECOVERY SYSTEM (MACRS) - A 1986 act that set out rules for the depreciation ...
  
  
• MODIFIED ACCRUAL BASIS - accounting is a mixture of the cash and accrual basis. The modified accrual ba...
  
  
• MODIFIED ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME (MAGI) - Some deductions and credits rely not on a taxpayer's adjusted g...
  
  
• MODIFIED AMERICAN OPTION - See Bermuda option.