Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• JOINTURE - Made in lieu of dower, a freehold estate created in a property which lasts for the life of t...
  
  
• JOISTS - Horizontal support members for ceilings or floors.
  
  
• JONESTOWN DEFENSE - An extreme defensive tactic employed by the management of a target corporation to p...
  
  
• JOSEPH EFFECT - The tendency for persistent time series (0.50
  
  
• JOULE - A metric unit of energy.
  
  
• JOURNAL - in accounting transactions, is where transactions are recorded as they occur.
  
  
• JOURNAL ENTRY - the beginning of the accounting cycle. Journal entries are the logging of business tran...
  
  
• JOURNAL VOUCHER - a document that provides written authorization for a financial transaction, often use...
  
  
• JOURNALIZING - the recording of transactions using the double-entry system. The recording is in five st...