Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SIGNATURES ON PROXIES - The basic rule of acceptability is that if the signature reads as the proxy is ...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANCE - The probability of rejection on the basis of a statistical test and a hypothesis that th...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTS - An account is significant if there is more than a remote likelihood that the acc...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCY - Acontrol deficiency or combination of control deficiencies, that adversely aff...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS OR ISSUES - Substantive matters that are important to the procedures performed, ev...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE - The holding of a large portion of the equity of a corporation, usually at least...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT ORDER - An order to buy or sell a large enough quantity of securities that the price of the...
  
  
• SIGNIFICANT ORDER IMBALANCE - A large number of buy or sell orders for a stock that cause an abnormally...
  
  
• SILENT PARTNER - A partner in a business who has no role in management but shares in the liability, tax...
  
  
• SILENT PARTNERSHIP - the relation of partnership sustained by a person who furnishes capital only, i.e....