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Coupon (finance) In finance, a coupon is the interest payment received by a bondholder from the date of issuance until the date of maturity of a bond. [1] Coupons are normally described in terms of the "coupon rate", which is calculated by adding the sum of coupons paid per year and dividing it by the bond's face value. [2]
COB – Close of Business. COC – Cost of Credit [2] or Cost of Capital [3] COD – Cost of Debt [4] or Cash on Delivery. COE – Center of Excellence or Cost of Equity [5] COGS – Cost of Goods Sold. Corp. – Corporation. COO – Chief Operating Officer. CPA – Certified Public Accountant. CPI – Consumer Price Index.
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]
t. e. International Accounting Standard 1: Presentation of Financial Statements or IAS 1 is an international financial reporting standard adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [1] It lays out the guidelines for the presentation of financial statements [2] and sets out minimum requirements of their content; it is ...
v. t. e. In bookkeeping, a general ledger is a bookkeeping ledger in which accounting data are posted from journals and aggregated from subledgers, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects. [1] A general ledger may be maintained on paper, on a computer, or in the cloud. [2]
t. e. 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. Accounts may be associated with an identifier (account number) and a caption or header and are coded ...
A medium-term note (MTN) is a debt note that usually matures (is paid back) between 5–10 years, but the term may be less than one year or as long as 100 years. [1] They can be issued on a fixed or floating coupon basis. In opposite to conventional bonds, MTNs can be offered continuously through various brokers, instead of issuing the full ...
The coupon (of a bond) is the annual interest that the issuer must pay, expressed as a percentage of the principal. The maturity is the end of the bond, the date that the issuer must return the principal. The issue is another term for the bond itself. The indenture, in some cases, is the contract that states all of the terms of the bond.