Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEFERRED CHARGE
  
  An expenditure treated as an asset that carries forward until it becomes pertinent to the business at hand, e.g., the underwriting fees on a corporate bond issue, which the corporation capitalizes as a deferred charge and then amortizes over the life of the bond issue.
  
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