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What is the word for "money I want to spend in the future"?
What would be the short English term for "money I want to spend in the future"? I ask because I've created a simple app for personal finances, where a user can add all the predicted spendings. Right now I call them "Predictions". I'm not sure if…
zuzuleinen
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Usage of lapse referring to a loan application?
I wonder, if a loan applicant chooses not to accept or go any further with a loan application, would you describe that act as cancelling or lapsing the application?, i.e., is the application cancelled or lapsed?
To emphasise: This is specifically…
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What is the opposite of Loan?
When I take 100$ from Joe with the intention to return it later, Joe is the lender and I am a borrower. This act called Loan from my perspective.
I loaned a money from Joe. Joe lent me 100$.
How this act called from Joe perspective?
When Joe gives…
Dmitry Kudryavtsev
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How to name a the other party of financial transaction (both recipient and sender)?
I am translating a balance sheet and it has a column name of the recipient or a sender of the money. Is there a word that designates "the other party in a transaction"?
PovilasID
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Correct term to describe how many % a portfolio consists of a certain stock?
I'm looking for a simple word used to describe how many % a portfolio consists of a certain stock.
I.e. "The GOOGL shares takes up a large ____ of my portfolio."
Or "The ____ of the GOOGL shares in my portfolio is 30%"
What word should be filled in…
Clox
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Dollar Value of a Trade (finance)
When you trade stocks on the market, what best describes the product of shares × price?
My candidates are Capital, Amount, Value, ...?
MonoThreaded
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Is there any difference between Loan and Credit?
We are drafting a formal document. I saw somebody replace all occurrences of the word credit to loan. There is no specific meaning assigned to either of these words within the document.
Is there any difference between these? I was using them…
noway
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Meaning of value measure
Yet average FiCO [consumer credit] scores for the pool, percent of no-doc["Liar"] loan to value measures and other indicators were pretty static.... The point is that these measures could stay roughly static, but the overall pool of mortgages being…
ice man
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What do you call what remains to be paid of invoice?
There is an invoice in a computer system. It has the "total sum" and the "paid sum" associated with it. How do you call "what remains yet to be paid" on this one invoice? And which sign, plus or minus should be displayed along this number?
Gherman
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Meaning of “discount”
If someone is advertising a “reservation discount” of 75000, does that mean
A. The final price will be 75000 or
B. The final price will be original price - 75000
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What is the opposite of "paying by installments"?
What is the opposite of "paying by installments"? I'm looking for the proper financial term for paying in full in a single payment.
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Is "remaining sum" the same as "remaining balance"
What's the term to express "left money in my account" ? I found BALANCE, REMAINING SUM and REMAINING BALANCE. Are they identical? Thanks!
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