SMALL BUSINESS DICTIONARY
The Yahoo Small Business Dictionary defines, explains, and cross-references more than 1,800 key small business words, phrases, acronyms, and concepts, covering topics including small business finance, management, sales, startup, exit strategy, and growth. To use the dictionary, type a word in the search box or click a letter to browse the listings alphabetically.
Small Business Dictionary terms starting with P
- P2P
- PBGC
- Pacific Stock Exchange
- Paid up
- Participation loan
- Partnership
- Party in interest
- Passive Activity Loss (PAL)
- Passive Income Generator (PIG)
- Patent
- Payback
- Payer
- Payment float
- Penalty clause
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
- Pension liabilities
- Pension plan
- Per annum
- Perfect competition
- Periodic rate
- Permanent Current Assets
- Perquisites
- Personal income
- Phantom income
- Physical completion
- Pier
- Plan participants
- Plan sponsors
- Policyholder
- Possessions corporation
- Post-dated check
- Power of attorney
- Preauthorized payment
- Premature distribution
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Prepaid interest
- President
- Pre-tax contribution
- Price impact costs
- Price leadership
- Primary earnings per (common) share
- Principal
- Principal amount
- Private letter ruling
- Private unrequited transfers
- Pro forma capital structure analysis
- Pro forma statement
- Producer Price Index (PPI)
- Product cycle theory
- Production
- Production possibilities schedule
- Profit
- Profit forecast
- Profit-sharing plan
- Profitability ratios
- Pro forma Earnings
- Progress payments
- Progressive tax system
- Project
- Projected benefit obligation (PBO)
- Promissory note
- Property rights
- Proportional representation
- Proration
- Protective covenant
- Provision for income taxes
- Proxy Committee
- Proxy contest
- Proxy Fight
- Proxy statement
- Public Company
- Public offering
- Public ownership
- Publicly held
- Purchase agreement
- Purchase method
- Purchasing power of the dollar
- Pure monopoly
- Pyramid scheme
- PAC
- PPP
- Package mortgage
- Parent company
- Partner
- Partnership agreement
- Passive
- Passive income
- Passive investing
- Pay-as-you-go basis
- Payee
- Payment
- Payout period
- Penalty tax
- Pension fund
- Pension parachute
- Pension sponsors
- Perfect capital market
- Perfected first lien
- Permanent Assets
- Permanent financing
- Personal exemption
- Personal property
- Physical asset
- Physical verification
- Plan agreement
- Plan for reorganization
- Planned capital expenditure program
- Portability
- Post-audit
- Postponing income
- Preauthorized checks (PAC)
- Pre Carriage
- Premium raid
- Prepackaged bankruptcy
- Prepayment penalty
- Pre shipment Finance
- Pretax earnings or profits
- Price indexes
- Price support
- Prime rate
- Principal-agent relationship
- Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO)
- Private limited partnership
- Privatization
- Pro forma financial statements
- Proceeds
- Product cycle
- Product Differentiation
- Production Loan
- Productivity
- Profit center
- Profit margin
- Profitability index
- Pro forma
- Pro forma Invoice
- Progress review
- Progressive taxation
- Project contracts
- Projection
- Property inventory
- Property tax
- Proprietorship
- Protectionism
- Prototype plan
- Proxy
- Proxy Committee Ballot
- Proxy Fight
- Proxy Solicitor
- Proxy vote
- Public limited partnership
- Public offering price
- Public warehouse
- Purchase accounting
- Purchase loan
- Purchase order
- Purchasing power parity
- Pure play
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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