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  2. Historical cost - Wikipedia

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    The historical cost of an asset at the time it is acquired or created is the value of the costs incurred in acquiring or creating the asset, comprising the consideration paid to acquire or create the asset plus transaction costs. [1]

  3. Automated clearing house - Wikipedia

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    Credit transfer: non-immediate transfer of funds between accounts at different financial institutions for payments by retail customers and non-urgent business-to-business payments. Direct debit payment of consumer bills such as mortgages, loans, utilities, insurance premiums, rents, and any other regular or membership style payment. These type ...

  4. Straight-through processing - Wikipedia

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    Straight-through processing exists in numerous areas of financial services, such as payments processing. [2] [3] [4]Payments may be non-STP due to various reasons [5] such as missing information, information which is not in a machine "understandable" form (such as name and address rather than a code), or human-readable instructions, e.g.

  5. Basis of accounting - Wikipedia

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    In accounting, a basis of accounting is a method used to define, recognise, and report financial transactions. [1] The two primary bases of accounting are the cash basis of accounting, or cash accounting, method and the accrual accounting method. A third method, the modified cash basis, combines elements of both accrual and cash accounting.

  6. Payment system - Wikipedia

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    Real-time gross settlement systems (RTGS) are funds transfer systems where the transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to another on a "real-time" and on "gross" basis. Settlement in "real time" means that payment transaction does not require any waiting period. The transactions are settled as soon as they are processed ...

  7. Clearing (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In banking and finance, clearing refers to all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled.This process turns the promise of payment (for example, in the form of a cheque or electronic payment request) into the actual movement of money from one account to another.

  8. Transaction cost - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a transaction cost is a cost incurred when making an economic trade when participating in a market. [ 1 ] The idea that transactions form the basis of economic thinking was introduced by the institutional economist John R. Commons in 1931.

  9. Argent Corporation - Wikipedia

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    During the time that Argent owned the four casinos, between $7 million and $15 million is estimated to have been skimmed from the casinos and sent to organized crime members in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Kansas City. Argent was forced out of the casino industry in the late 1970s. Glick denied any wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime.