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UNDERWRITING FEE

Fee charged by mortgage lender’s to verify loan application information and to make the final decision on loan approval.

UNDERWRITE

1. General. Document that is signed at the end to signify agreement , correctness or truth of contents. 2. Banking. Evaluating risk for lending by analysing loan contract details. 3. Insurance. Evaluation

TWO TIER BID

Attempt at takeover where the bidder offers a higher price for stock than is needed to takeover the firm.

UNDER RESERVE

Situation where a bank will credit amount of a draft or cheque to a depositor’s account before it is cleared.

TYPE A PERSONALITY

Person characterised by being overly ambitious, aggressive, competitive, impatient, driven, controlling with a sense of urgency. Quantity opt quality. See type B personality.

TYPES OF COMPLEXITY

Types of complex situations (1) Apparent complexity, (2) Detail complexity, (3) Dynamic complexity, (4) Inherent complexity.

UNDERLOADING

Situation where a plant or machine runs at less than its full capacity in order to accommodate production rate or time for processing.

UNDERWEIGHT

Situation that has arisen when a portfolio’s investment are lower in proportion to the financial market’s share of capitalisation. Opposite of overweight.

TWO STEP FLOW MODEL

Marketing strategy where messages that are not personal are first sent to the opinion leader then passed to the consumer.

TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS

Archetypal phenomenon that attempts to exploit the system that will turn out to be self-defeating.

UBIQUITOUS

Seeming to be everywhere or existing everywhere; omnipresent.

TIME VARIANCE

Difference between actual and standard rates for hours worked.

TIMES INTEREST EARNED RATIO

Ratio of income statement indicating the extent that earnings can decline and not result in problems of non-payment of interest.

TIMESHARE

Ownership that involves the purchase of a time or percept interest in a holiday property.

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