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MATERIAL CONTRACT TERMS

A sales contract’s essential terms. A description of the item sold, the price, the quantity, and the delivery date are essential components of the material contact terms.

MATERIAL FACT

Crucial to the interpretation of a phenomenon or a subject matter, or to the determination of an issue at hand this is a specific type of confirmed or validated event, item of

MATERIAL MISREPRESENTATION

If known to the other party, a contract, deal, or transaction could have been aborted, or significantly altered by this deliberate hiding or falsification of a material fact.

MATERIALISM

1. What cannot be perceived, being of the mind, mental states, or spirit, does not exist in this concept. Only that in nature one can perceive through senses, it being physical, exists.

MATERIAL PARTICIPATION TEST

A taxpayer is identified as a material participant in a business by this specific type of criteria. Income received by the taxpayer from that business will be identified as active or passive

MATERIAL ALTERATION

Significant changes, as additions to and/or deletions from text in a legal sense or effect to a legal instrument, such as a contract, deed, will, or the like. Such changes may invalidate

MATHEMATICAL MODEL

Forecasting future behavior method of simulated real-life situations with mathematical equations as this type of mathematical modeling. Decision-theory, queuing theory, and linear programming are typical tools. Large amounts of number crunching are

MATURE

The point when a policy’s face value is paid out, as when the insured dies, the policy is mature.

MATTER OF RECORD

Provable by a record’s presentation, a public record establishes this type of fact or statement.

MATILDA

A note issued in Australian currency to the Australian markey by a foreign country.

MATURITY AMOUNT

On the date of its encashment or redemption, including accrued earnings, an investment’s value.

MATCHING RULE

Offsetting an income transaction with an expense transaction is the duty of an accountant.

MATURITY GUARANTEE

after a specific amount of time has passed, the pay-out is the guaranteed amount of a life insurance or segregated fund contract. After ten years have passed the contract’s specified beneficiary will

MATURE MARKET

One that is functioning without change or innovation or has no growth.

MATURITY MATCHING

In asset management, this is on organization’s synchronization of cash inflows with cash outflows. Maturity of income-producing assets and debt maturity of interest incurring liabilities are matched.

MATURITY DATE

A contractual agreement, financial instrument, guaranty, insurance policy, loan, or offer is due for settlement on this specific date. Also known as redemption date for investments. Is also a synonym for settlement

MATCHING PRINCIPLE

An Accounting term that is a fundamental concept of accrual basis accounting. It offsets revenue by expenses based on their cause-and-effect relationship. It states that the costs incurred in a period should

MARKET VALUE

1. In an open and competitive market, a buyer willingly pays and a seller willingly takes this highest estimated, and acceptable, price for an item . 2. In Accounting, this is the

MANAGEMENT RISK

Potential risk tied to company managers’ decisions made in the interest of shareholders and the company at large. Poor decisions or self-serving decisions made by management will potentially destroy shareholder wealth.

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