Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PEOPLE PILL - A form of poison pill providing that the entire management threatens to resign in the eve...
  
  
• PEP - Personal Equity Plan. This is a tax free way to own shares or unit trusts. You can also use PEPs ...
  
  
• PER ANNUM - Yearly.
  
  
• PER CAPITA DEBT - The total bonded debt of a municipality divided by the population of the municipality...
  
  
• PER CAPITA INCOME - the mean income computed for every man, woman, and child in a particular group. It ...
  
  
• PER DIEM - a. one every day (e.g., save 10 man-hours per diem); or, b. payment of daily expenses and/or...
  
  
• PER DIEM INTEREST - Interest calculated per day. (Depending on the day of the month on which closing ta...
  
  
• PER ITEM CHARGE - The fee charged to an account holder who has exceeded the number of free transactions...
  
  
• PER STIRPES - Latin term, meaning by representation. A method of dividing an estate equally among the h...
  
  
• PER-DIEM INTEREST - Interest charges that cover the period of time—usually a matter of days, or a few w...