Recognizing revenues in the period as available and measurable. Recognizing expenditures in the period incurred as an associated liability. This is the method most government accounting follows.
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MODIFIED ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME
For a specific tax year, one’s adjusted gross income plus any earned tax exempt interest..
MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING (MAP)
To enhance a food’s shelf life, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and oxygen proportions in a sealed container differ from those in the normal, ambient air. Food-packaging method.
MODIFIED COMMUNITY RATING
Using data from a particular area for specific medical expenses as a way of establishing the rates.
MODIFIED DURATION
Macaulay duration adjusted for compounding . Fixed-income financial instrument ‘s price volatility and interest rate sensitivity measure. Like an interest bearing bond, the instrument ‘s value-percentage change for each percentage […]
MODIFIED ENDOWMENT CONTRACT
The post-endowment-period paid amount exceeds the policy’s face value. This contract type is taxable and subject to any post-tax penalties. Either the face value or the cash value, whichever is […]
MODIFIED FEE FOR SERVICE
Each procedure’s actual cost is reimbursed up to the specified maximum in this specific type of process.
MODIFIED FIRE RESISTIVE CONSTRUCTION
A masonry-constructed building with outside walls, roof, and floor surfaces made of fire-resistant materials.
MODIFIED GROSS LEASE
As time goes on the tenant begins to pay more of the property’s expenses in this specific type of real estate lease.
MODIFIED LIFE POLICY
For a period of three to five years the premiums begin lower than normal and stay that way in this type of life insurance policy . Premiums become higher than […]
MODIFY
To alter; to change in incidental or subordinate features. See MODIFICATION .
MODIGLANI-MILLER HYPOTHESIS
Proposition that a firm’s capital cost is independent from the capital type employed in an efficient capital market . Debt, ordinary shares or common stock sold, retained dividend earnings, or […]
MODIGLIANI AND MILLER PROPOSITION I
A proposition that a business’ capital structure change does not necessarily change the business’ total value . A business can finance its operations by debt or withholding share dividend profits, […]
MODIGLIANI AND MILLER PROPOSITION II
A proposition that a business’s value depends upon three factors: business’ assets return rate, debt-to- equity ratio , and business’s debt cost. Modigliani and Miller Proposition I is further clarified.
MODIGLIANI-MILLER THEORY
The theory that a perfect market should be used to calculate rather than actual market.
MODIUS
Lat A measure. Specifically, a Roman dry measure having a capacity of about 550 cubic inches; but in medieval English law used as au approximate translation of the word “bushel.”
MODO ET FORMA
Lat. In manner and form. Words used in the old Latin forms of pleadings by way of traverse, and literally translated in the modern precedents, Importing that the party traversing […]
MODULAR BILL OF MATERIALS
BOM including available options and their variations for each listed material item.
MODULAR CONTRACTS
Contracts dovetailed, sequenced, but separate.
MODULARITY
Relatively independent but interlocking components or parts mark how much is a system modularized as a degree.
MODULATING
Not being full-on or full off; changing incrementally.
MODULATION
Electrical signal change process. Carrying information contained in a signal by superimposing the signal’s characteristics onto a carrier wave is an example. Also refer to amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.
MODULE
1. Stand-alone, standardized or self-contained segment is a part along with other such segments of an educational course or training program . 2. Prefabricated , self-contained, standard unit. Can be […]
MODULUS
1. A complex number’s absolute value. 2. the difference between two given numbers is exactly divided by this number. 3. The logarithm of one base is converted into a logarithm […]
MODUS
thing invented, made on a reduced scale, In compliance with the patent laws. See State v. Fox, 25 N. J. Law, 5G6; Montana Ore Purchasing Co. v. Roston, etc., Min […]