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General Ledger

DefinitionA general ledger contains all the accounts for recording transactions relating to a company's assets, liabilities, owners' equity, revenue, and expenses. In modern accounting...

Generational Accounting

DefinitionGenerational accounting is a method of measuring the fiscal burdens facing today's and tomorrow's children. Laurence Kotlikoff's individual and co-authored work on the relativity...

Tax Equity And Fiscal Responsibility Act Of 1982 (TEFRA)

What is 'Tax Equity And Fiscal Responsibility Act Of 1982 - TEFRA' Federal tax legislation passed in 1982 that modified some aspects...

Tax Bracket

DefinitionTax brackets are the divisions at which tax rates change in a progressive tax system. Essentially, they are the cutoff values for taxable income...

Tax Efficiency

Definition A financial process is said to be tax efficient if it is taxed at a lower rate than an alternative financial process that achieves...

Tax Code

DefinitionTax law is an area of legal study dealing with the constitutional, common-law, statutory, tax treaty, and regulatory rules that constitute the law applicable...

Takaful

DefinitionTakaful is a co-operative system of reimbursement or repayment in case of loss, organized as an Islamic or sharia compliant alternative to conventional insurance,...

Dealer Market

What is a 'Dealer Market' A financial market mechanism wherein multiple dealers post prices at which they will buy or sell a...

Data Warehousing

DefinitionIn computing, a data warehouse, also known as an enterprise data warehouse, is a system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered...

Daylight Overdraft

DefinitionIn the United States, the daylight overdraft is a system in which "allows qualifying banks to overdraw on their Federal Reserve accounts in order...

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