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  2. Debt - Wikipedia

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    Common types of debt owed by individuals and households include mortgage loans, car loans, credit card debt, and income taxes. For individuals, debt is a means of using anticipated income and future purchasing power in the present before it has actually been earned. Commonly, people in industrialized nations use consumer debt to purchase houses ...

  3. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Among other things, the value of Ke and the Cost of Debt (COD) [6] enables management to arbitrate different forms of short and long term financing for various types of expenditures. Ke applies most prominently to companies that regularly generate excess capital (free cash flow, cash on hand) from ongoing operations.

  4. List of business terms - Wikipedia

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    The following terms are in everyday use in financial regions, such as commercial business and the management of large organisations such as corporations. Noun phrases [ edit ]

  5. National Debt and Deficit — What Is It and How Does ... - AOL

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    Debt” and “deficit” are not interchangeable terms. A budget deficit is the difference between revenue, which comes mostly from taxes, and expenses, which includes everything from missiles ...

  6. Earnings before interest and taxes - Wikipedia

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    A professional investor contemplating a change to the capital structure of a firm (e.g., through a leveraged buyout) first evaluates a firm's fundamental earnings potential (reflected by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and EBIT), and then determines the optimal use of debt versus equity (equity value).

  7. Debenture - Wikipedia

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    In corporate finance, a debenture is a medium- to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money, at a fixed rate of interest. The legal term "debenture" originally referred to a document that either creates a debt or acknowledges it, but in some countries the term is now used interchangeably with bond, loan stock or note. A ...

  8. Bad debt - Wikipedia

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    In finance, bad debt, occasionally called uncollectible accounts expense, is a monetary amount owed to a creditor that is unlikely to be paid and for which the creditor is not willing to take action to collect for various reasons, often due to the debtor not having the money to pay, for example due to a company going into liquidation or insolvency.

  9. Debt capital - Wikipedia

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    Debt capital differs [1] from equity or share capital because subscribers to debt capital do not become part owners of the business, but are merely creditors, and the suppliers of debt capital usually receive a contractually fixed annual percentage return on their loan, and this is known as the coupon rate.