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  2. Reserve (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    Reserve is the profit achieved by a company where a certain amount of it is put back into the business which can help the business in their rainy days. The preceding sentence may give the unwary reader the sense that this item is an asset, a debit balance.

  3. Cookie jar accounting - Wikipedia

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    Cookie jar accounting or cookie jar reserves is an accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years. Through this process, companies can mislead investors into believing that their losses are less than the actual value.

  4. Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses - Wikipedia

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    Some of the general challenges that financial institutions face with regards to the ALLL estimation include the manual, time-intensive nature of the reserve estimation process each month or quarter; producing adequate documentation and disclosures; incorporating new accounting standards and regulations released by FASB and federal regulatory bodies, and increased scrutiny on the assumptions ...

  5. Liability (financial accounting) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of types of liabilities include: money owing on a loan, money owing on a mortgage, or an IOU. Liabilities of sectors of USA economy, 1945-2017, based on flow of funds statistics of the Federal Reserve System. Liabilities are debts and obligations of the business they represent as creditor's claim on business assets.

  6. Financial mismanagement - Wikipedia

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    Financial mismanagement is management that, deliberately or not, is handled in a way that can be characterized as "wrong, bad, careless, inefficient or incompetent" and that will reflect negatively upon the financial standing of a business or individual. [1] There are many ways of how financial mismanagement is carried out.

  7. EXPLAINER: What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

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    Tapping the reserve is among the few things a president can do alone to try to control inflation, which makes Americans poorer and often creates a political liability for the party in control of ...

  8. Asset and liability management - Wikipedia

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    Asset and liability management (often abbreviated ALM) is the term covering tools and techniques used by a bank or other corporate to minimise exposure to market risk and liquidity risk through holding the optimum combination of assets and liabilities. [1]

  9. What are reserves for a mortgage? - AOL

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    Mortgage reserves refers to cash or other easily accessible assets you could use to make mortgage payments, above and beyond the down payment and closing costs. Reserves are measured in months.