ACQUISITION ACCOUNTING
A group of formal guidelines which describes how the liabilities, assets, goodwill of a target company and non-controlling interest must be reported by a buying company on its Consolidated Statement of Financial Position. With acquisition accounting, the acquired firm's fair market value is placed bet the intangible and tangible assets portion of the acquiring firm's balance sheet; any difference is considered as goodwill. Also referred as "business combination accounting."
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Tag-Along Rights
Investment agreement provision protecting a minority stakeholder, normally in a venture capital deal. If a majority shareholder sells his or her st ...
Fiduciary
An individual who is legally appointed to hold assets in trust for another person. He or she manages the assets for the other person’s benefi ...
Coincident Indicator
Metric showing the current status of economic activity within a certain area. Indicators include employment, average weekly hours worked in manufac ...
Jumbo Loan
A mortgage with a loan amount that exceeds the conforming loan limits fixed by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). The agen ...
Form 4
A document that needs to be filed with the SEC when there is a material change in the company insiders’ holdings. Directors and officers of t ...
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