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Target Investment Mix
Definition: The percentage mix of stocks, bonds, and short-term reserves that an investor considers appropriate based on his/her personal objectives, time horizon, risk tolerance, and financial resources.
Target Leverage Ratio
Definition: The ratio of the market value of debt to the total market value of the firm that management seeks to maintain.
Target Payout Ratio
Definition: A firm's long-run dividend-to-earnings ratio. The firm's policy is to attempt to pay out a certain percentage of earnings, but it pays a stated dollar dividend and adjusts it to the target as base line increases in earnings occur.
Target Price
Definition: In the context of takeovers, the price at which an acquirer aims to buy a target firm.
Target Zone Arrangement
Definition: A monetary system under which countries pledge to maintain their exchange rates within a specific margin around agreed-upon, fixed central exchange rates.
Target Zones
Definition: Implicit boundaries on exchange rates established by central banks.
Targeted Amortization Class (TAC) Bonds
Definition: Bonds offered as a tranche class of some CMOs, according to a sinking fund schedule. They differ from PAC bonds whose amortization is guaranteed as long as prepayments on the underlying mortgages do not exceed certain limits. A TAC's schedule is met at only one prepayment rate.
Targeted Registered Offerings
Definition: Securities issues sold to "targeted" foreign financial_institutions according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines. These foreign institutions then maintain a secondary market in the foreign market.
Targeted Repurchase
Definition: Buying back of a firm's stock from a potential acquirer, usually at a substantial premium, to forestall a takeover attempt. Related: Greenmail.
Tariff
Definition: A tax on imports or exports.
Tax And Insurance Escrow
Definition: An account required by some mortgage lenders to fund annual property tax assessments and hazard insurance premiums for the mortgaged property.
Tax And Loan Account
Definition: An account at a private bank, held in the name of the district Federal Reserve Bank, which holds operating cash for the business of the US Treasury.
Tax Anticipation Bills (Tabs)
Definition: Special bills that the Treasury occasionally issues that mature on corporate quarterly income tax dates and can be used at face value by corporations to pay their tax liabilities.
Tax Anticipation Notes (Tans)
Definition: Notes issued by states or municipalities to finance current operations in anticipation of future tax receipts.
Tax Arbitrage
Definition: Trading that takes advantage of a difference in tax rates or tax systems as the basis for profit.
Tax Audit
Definition: Audit by the IRS or other tax-collecting agency to determine whether a taxpayer has paid the correct amount of tax.
Tax Avoidance
Definition: Minimizing tax burden through legal means such as tax-free municipal bonds, tax shelters, IRA accounts, and trusts. Compare with tax evasion.
Tax Base
Definition: The assessed value of the taxable property, assets, and income within a specific geographic area.
Tax Basis
Definition: In the context of finance, the original cost of an asset less depreciation that is used to determine gains or losses for tax purposes.
Tax Books
Definition: Records kept by a firm's management that follow IRS rules. The books follow Financial Accounting Standards Board rules.
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