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CFAT: See Also: Cash flow after interest and taxes
CFC: See: Controlled foreign corporation
CFR: See: Cost and Freight
CFTC: See Also: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CG: The ISO 3166 country code for The Congo.
CH: The ISO 3166 country code for SWITZERLAND.
Chair of the board: Highest-ranking member of a Board of Directors, who presides over its meetings and who is often the most powerful officer of a corporation.
Changes in financial position: Sources and uses of funds provided from operations that alter a company's cash flow position :depreciation, deferred taxes, other sources, and capital expenditures.
Chaos: A deterministic non-linear dynamic system that can produce random looking results. A chaotic system must have a fractal dimension, and exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. , Lyapunov Exponent, Strange Attractor. See Also: Fractal Dimension
CHAP: See: Clearing House Automated Payments System
Chapter 11 Proceedings: Provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act under which the debtor firm is reorganized by a court because the estimated value of the reorganized firm exceeds the expected proceeds from its liquidation.
Chapter 7 Proceedings: Provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act under which the debtor firm's assets are liquidated by a court because reorganization would fail to establish a profitable business.
Characteristic line: The market model applied to a single security ; a regression of security returns on the benchmark return. The slope of the regression line is a security's beta.
Characteristic portfolio: A portfolio which efficiently represents a particular asset characteristic. For a given characteristic, it is the minimum risk portfolio, with portfolio characteristic equal to 1. For example, the characteristic portfolio of asset betas is the benchmark. It is the minimum risk beta = 1 portfolio.
Charge: The document evidencing mortgage security required by Crown Law (law derived from English law). A Fixed Charge refers to a defined set of assets and is usually registered. A Floating Charge refers to other assets which change from time to time (ie. cash, inventory, etc.), which become a Fixed Charge after a default.
Charge off: See Also: Bad debt
Charitable remainder trust: An irrevocable trust that pays income to a designated person or persons until the grantor's death, when the income is passed on to a designated charity. A charitable lead trust by contrast allows the charity to receive income during the grantor's life, and the remaining income to pass to designated family members upon the grantor's death.
Charter: See Also: Articles of incorporation
Charter Amendment Limitations: These provisions limit shareholders' ability to amend the governing documents of the corporation. This might take the form of a supermajority vote requirement for charter or bylaw amendments, total elimination of the ability of shareholders to amend the bylaws, or the ability of directors beyond the provisions of state law to amend the bylaws without shareholder approval.
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA): An experienced financial analyst who has passed examinations in economics, financial accounting, portfolio management, security analysis, and standards of conduct given by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.
Chartists: A technical analyst who charts the patterns of stocks, bonds, and commodities to find trends in patterns of trading used to advise clients. Related: Technical analysts.
Chasing the market: Purchasing a security at a higher price than expected because prices are rapidly climbing, or selling a security at a lower level when prices are quickly falling.
Chastity bonds: Bonds redeemable at par value in the case of a takeover.
Chattel Mortgage: A loan agreement that grants to the lender a lien on property other than real estate. Chattel is personal or movable property.
Chatter: See Also: Whipsawed

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