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  2. Merton's portfolio problem - Wikipedia

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    Merton's portfolio problem is a problem in continuous-time finance and in particular intertemporal portfolio choice.An investor must choose how much to consume and must allocate their wealth between stocks and a risk-free asset so as to maximize expected utility.

  3. Business cycle accounting - Wikipedia

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    Business cycle accounting is an accounting procedure used in macroeconomics to decompose business cycle fluctuations into contributing factors. The procedure was introduced by V. V. Chari, Patrick Kehoe, and Ellen McGrattan but is similar to techniques introduced earlier. The underlying premise of the procedure is that the economy has a long ...

  4. Account (bookkeeping) - Wikipedia

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    A chart of accounts provides a listing of all financial accounts used by particular business, organization, or government agency. The system of recording, verifying, and reporting such information is called accounting. Practitioners of accounting are called accountants. [1]

  5. BAS (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    The SIE (file format) (accounting SW vendor society) The Bokföringsnämnden, BFN, [6] is the Swedish Government agency with the task of promote the development of GAAP for use in private and public accounting. [7] It makes advice on how to use the BAS chart in accounting in published directives.

  6. National accounts - Wikipedia

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    National accounts or national account systems (NAS) are the implementation of complete and consistent accounting techniques for measuring the economic activity of a nation. These include detailed underlying measures that rely on double-entry accounting. By design, such accounting makes the totals on both sides of an account equal even though ...

  7. Retirement plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Retirement plans are classified as either defined benefit plans or defined contribution plans, depending on how benefits are determined.. In a defined benefit (or pension) plan, benefits are calculated using a fixed formula that typically factors in final pay and service with an employer, and payments are made from a trust fund specifically dedicated to the plan.

  8. Defined benefit pension plan - Wikipedia

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    Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.

  9. Primary Insurance Amount - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, for retirement and spousal benefits, for the family of an individual who is at least 62 years old or dies in 2019 before the age of 62, the total amount of benefits payable cannot exceed 150 percent of the first $1,184 of the worker's PIA, plus 272 percent of the worker's PIA over $1,184 through $1,708, plus 134 percent of the worker's ...