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  2. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    Interest Amount of interest accrued on an investment. CouponFactor The Factor to be used when determining the amount of interest paid by the issuer on coupon payment dates. The periods may be regular or irregular. CouponRate The interest rate on the security or loan-type agreement, e.g., 5.25%. In the formulas this would be expressed as 0.0525.

  3. Finance charge - Wikipedia

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    Creditors and lenders use different methods to calculate finance charges. The most common formula is based on the average daily balance, in which daily outstanding balances are added together and then divided by the number of days in the month. In financial accounting, interest is defined as any charge or cost of borrowing money.

  4. Original issue discount - Wikipedia

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    The rules for calculating the original issue discount utilize a compounding interest formula, with the principal recalculated every six months. Section 1272(a) of the tax code requires that the Original Issue Discount is includible in the lender's taxable income at the end of each tax year, or part of the tax year if the loan was not owned for ...

  5. Accrued interest - Wikipedia

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    The primary formula for calculating the interest accrued in a given period is: I A = T × P × R {\displaystyle I_{A}=T\times P\times R} where I A {\displaystyle I_{A}} is the accrued interest, T {\displaystyle T} is the fraction of the year, P {\displaystyle P} is the principal, and R {\displaystyle R} is the annualized interest rate.

  6. Adjusting entries - Wikipedia

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    In accounting, adjusting entries are journal entries usually made at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditure to the period in which they actually occurred. The revenue recognition principle is the basis of making adjusting entries that pertain to unearned and accrued revenues under accrual-basis accounting .

  7. Cash flow forecasting - Wikipedia

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    The accrual reversal method (ARM), is similar to the ANI method. Here, instead of using projected balance sheet accounts, large accruals are reversed and cash effects are calculated based upon statistical distributions and algorithms. This allows the forecasting period to be weekly or even daily.

  8. Accounting standard - Wikipedia

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    Accounting standards prescribe in considerable detail what accruals must be made, how the financial statements are to be presented, and what additional disclosures are required. Some important elements that accounting standards cover include identifying the exact entity which is reporting, discussing any "going concern" questions, specifying ...

  9. Dirty price - Wikipedia

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    The standard broker valuation formula (incorporated in the Price function in Excel or any financial calculator, such as the HP10bII) confirms this; the main term calculates the actual (dirty price), which is the total cash exchanged, less a second term which represents the amount of accrued interest.