off-balance-sheet transaction
31creative accounting — Misleadingly optimistic, though not illegal, forms of accounting. This can occur because there are a number of accounting transactions that are not subject to regulations or the regulations are ambiguous. Companies sometimes make use of these… …
32creative accounting — Misleadingly optimistic, though not illegal, forms of accounting. This can occur because there are a number of accounting transactions that are not subject to regulations or the regulations are ambiguous. Companies sometimes make use of these… …
33Adelphia — Infobox Company company name = Adelphia Communications Corporation company company type = Defunct fate = acquired by Time Warner company slogan = Get. Watch. Do What You Want. foundation = 1952 location = Greenwood Village, Colorado key people =… …
34Hedge fund — A hedge fund is a private investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and which pays a performance fee to its investment manager.… …
35Databank Systems Limited — was the name of a not for profit off balance sheet company set up by a consortium of competing banks in New Zealand, to operate on what is nowadays termed a Shared Services Agency basis, to provide computing resources (development and… …
36Currency swap — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibility Dollarization Fixed exchange rate Floating exchange rate Linked exchange rate Managed float regime Markets Foreign exchange market Futures… …
37Project finance — is the financing of long term infrastructure and industrial projects based upon a complex financial structure where project debt and equity are used to finance the project. Usually, a project financing scheme involves a number of equity investors …
38substance over form — The notion that the economic substance of a transaction, *asset, or liability takes precedence over its legal and technical form. The exploitation of narrow legal and technical interpretations of items is a typical Creative accounting mechanism… …
39Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
40Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …
