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Terms Beginning With 'A'

  1.

    All Weather Fund

  2. All-Cap Fund

  3. All-Cash Deal

  4. All-Holders Rule

  5. All-In Cost

  6. All-In-One Mortgage

  7. All-Inclusive Income Concept

  8. All-Ordinaries Stock Index

  9. All-Pay Auction

  10. All-Purpose Financial Statement

  11. Alliance Of American Insurers - AAI

  12. Allied Lines

  13. Allied Member

  14. Alligator Property

  15. Alligator Spread

  16. Allocated Benefits

  17. Allocated Funding Instrument

  18. Allocation Notice

  19. Allocation Of Plan Assets On Termination

  20. Allocation Rate

  21. Allocational Efficiency

  22. Allonge

  23. Allotment

  24. Allowance For Bad Debt

  25. Allowance For Credit Losses

  26. Allowance For Doubtful Accounts

  27. Allowances

  28. Alpha

  29. Alpha Generator

  30. Alpha Risk

  31. Alphabet Broker

  32. Alphabet Rounds

  33. Alphabet Stock

  34. Alston D. Correll

  35. Alt-A

  36. Altered Check

  37. Alternate Beneficiary

  38. Alternate Transferee

  39. Alternative Asset

  40. Alternative Depreciation System - ADS

  41. Alternative Dispute Resolution

  42. Alternative Documentation

  43. Alternative Energy ETF

  44. Alternative Fuels Tax Credit

  45. Alternative Investment

  46. Alternative Investment Market - AIM

  47. Alternative Minimum Cost Method

  48. Alternative Minimum Tax - AMT

  49. Alternative Mortgage Instrument

  50. Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act - AMTPA

  51. Alternative Motor Vehicle Credit

  52. Alternative Order

  53. Alternative Risk Financing Facilities

  54. Alternative Tax Net Operating Loss - ATNOL

  55. Alternative Trading System - ATS

  56. Altiplano Option

  57. Altman Z-Score

  58. Always Be Closing - ABC

  59. Amakudari

  60. Amalgamation

  61. Amartya Sen

  62. Ambulance Chaser

  63. Amended Return

  64. Amendment

  65. Amenity

  66. American Academy Of Actuaries - AAA

  67. American Academy Of Financial Management - AAFM

  68. American Accounting Association - AAA

  69. American Agency System

  70. American Association Of Individual Investors - AAII

  71. American Bankers Association - ABA

  72. American Bankruptcy Institute - ABI

  73. American Callable Bond

  74. American Clean Energy And Security Act Of 2009

  75. American Code For Information Interchange - ASCII

  76. American Council Of Life Insurance

  77. American Currency Quotation

  78. American Customer Satisfaction Index - ACSI

  79. American Depositary Receipt - ADR

  80. American Depositary Share - ADS

  81. American Experience Table

  82. American Institute Of Banking - AIB

  83. American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants - AICPA

  84. American Insurance Association - AIA

  85. American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004

  86. American Land Title Association - ALTA

  87. American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation

  88. American National Standards Institute - ANSI

  89. American Opportunity Tax Credit

  90. American Option

  91. American Petroleum Institute

  92. American Recovery And Reinvestment Act

  93. American Risk and Insurance Association

  94. American Rule

  95. American Shares

  96. American Society Of Women Accountants - ASWA

  97. American Stock Exchange - AMEX

  98. American Women's Society of Certified Public Accountants - AWSCPA

  99. Americans With Disabilities Act - ADA

  100. Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 – ADAAA

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    A special type of tax-deductible loss, similar to a casualty loss, where a loss has been incurred by taxpayers who reside in an area that has been designated as a federal disaster area by the President.

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    The notion that changes or policies designed to alter the course of the economy should be done slowly, rather than all at once.

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