Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PERPETUITY - Is a stream of payments or a type of annuity that starts payments on a fixed date and such...
  
  
• PERQS - Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly-Pay Securities (sm). Morgan Stanley's proprietar...
  
  
• PERQUISITES - Personal benefits, including direct benefits, such as the use of a firm car or expense ac...
  
  
• PERSISTENT EARNINGS - the level of earnings, from accounting to accounting period, that are continually...
  
  
• PERSON - A legal term referring to any entity which is capable of entering a contract or suing and bein...
  
  
• PERSONAL ARTICLE FLOATER - Insurance policy attachment designed to cover specified personal valuables.
  
  
• PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY - filed by an individual; also called a household bankruptcy, consumer bankruptcy o...
  
  
• PERSONAL CHECK - a check drawn on a depository institution by an individual against the individual's ow...
  
  
• PERSONAL CONSUMPTION SPENDING - What households collectively spend on goods and services.
  
  
• PERSONAL DISPOSABLE INCOME - Personal income minus personal income tax payments. Also called “take-home...