Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PE - The two-character ISO 3166 country code for PERU.
  
  
• PE RATIO - see Price earnings ratio.
  
  
• PEAK - the period of maximal use or demand or activity; for example, at peak commute hours, street traf...
  
  
• PEAKEDNESS - Is the relatively pointed appearance for a probability distribution. See Leptokurtic and c...
  
  
• PECKING-ORDER VIEW (OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE) - The argument that external financing transactions costs, es...
  
  
• PEEQS - Protected Exchangeable EQuity-linked Securities (q.v.).
  
  
• PEER REVIEW - Process by which an accounting firm's practice is evaluated for compliance with professio...
  
  
• PEFCO - See: Private Export Funding Corporation
  
  
• PEG RATIO - An indicator of whether a stock is undervalued or overvalued. To obtain the PEG ratio, a st...
  
  
• PEGBOARD SYSTEM - see ONE-WRITE SYSTEM.