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  2. Special-purpose entity - Wikipedia

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    A formal definition is "The Special Purpose Entity is a fenced organization having limited predefined purposes and a legal personality". [ 1 ] Normally a company will transfer assets to the SPE for management or use the SPE to finance a large project thereby achieving a narrow set of goals without putting the entire firm at risk.

  3. Orphan structure - Wikipedia

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    Orphan structure or Orphan SPV or orphaning are terms used in structured finance closely associated with creating SPVs ("Special Purpose Vehicles") for securitisation transactions where the notional equity of the SPV is deliberately handed over to an unconnected 3rd party who themselves have no control over the SPV; thus the SPV becomes an "orphan" whose equity is controlled by no one.

  4. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    For example, $225K would be understood to mean $225,000, and $3.6K would be understood to mean $3,600. Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an abbreviation for Cost of Equity (COE).

  5. Chart of accounts - Wikipedia

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    A chart of accounts (COA) is a list of financial accounts and reference numbers, grouped into categories, such as assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expenses, and used for recording transactions in the organization's general ledger.

  6. Segregated portfolio company - Wikipedia

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    The latter separate liabilities by allowing a company to allocate assets and attendant liabilities to any number of separate accounts. In Nevis, similar provisions in the Insurance Ordinance 2004 allow insurers to establish "statutory funds" to which they may allocate the risks of any insured who agrees to such allocation.

  7. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    The days in the numerators are calculated on a Julian day difference basis. In this convention the first day of the period is included and the last day is excluded. The CouponFactor uses the same formula, replacing Date2 by Date3. In general, coupon payments will vary from period to period, due to the differing number of days in the periods.

  8. Days sales outstanding - Wikipedia

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    In accountancy, days sales outstanding (also called DSO and days receivables) is a calculation used by a company to estimate the size of their outstanding accounts receivable. It measures this size not in units of currency, but in average sales days. Typically, days sales outstanding is calculated monthly.

  9. Warrant of payment - Wikipedia

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    In government finance, a warrant is a written order to pay that instructs a federal, state, or county government treasurer to pay the warrant holder on demand or after a specific date. Such warrants look like checks and clear through the banking system like checks, but are not drawn against cleared funds in a checking account (demand deposit ...