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Collective Allowance

An allowance that is set up for expected credit losses (ECLs) on total unimpaired loan/ receivables and other exposures when...

Green Shoe

A provision in an initial public offering (IPO) underwriting agreement which entitles the underwriters to purchase more shares than specified...

Past Due Account

An account (an account receivable) that captures an amount past due in relation to a financial asset. The past-due balance...

Past Due

With respect to a financial asset, it is a situation that results from failure of a counterparty (e.g., an issuer,...

Taking a Bath

One of the methods of creative accounting that constitutes a host of procedures taken by an entity's management to substantially...

Big Bath

One of the methods of creative accounting that constitutes a host of procedures taken by an entity's management to substantially...

Provision

A liability whose timing and/ or amount are uncertain (whether arising from a legal or constructive obligation). It is an...

Make-Whole Provision

A clause in a law, contract, agreement, etc, that limits or reverses a payment or profit distribution for particular reasons....