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A parent company (investing company) controls a subsidiary.


The mathematical function which is the inverse of "raising to the power of".


Usually abbreviated to "log".
== See also ==
 
* [[Group]]
 
* [[Group accounts]]
'''Example'''
* [[Letter of comfort]]
 
* [[Parent currency]]
Working with logarithms to the base 10:
* [[Simple investment accounting]]
 
* [[Sister company]]
log<sub>10</sub>(100) = 2
* [[Subsidiary]]
 
And 10<sup>2</sup> = 100


 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
 
[[Category:The_business_context]]
More generally with logarithms to the base n:
 
log<sub>n</sub>(x) = the power which, when 'n' is raised to it = x
 
 
'''Example'''
 
10<sup>(log<sub>10</sub>(x))</sup> = x
 
And, more generally, n<sup>(log<sub>n</sub>(x))</sup> = x
 
 
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The logarithm to the base 10.
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Natural logarithm]]

Latest revision as of 21:47, 3 December 2022

A parent company (investing company) controls a subsidiary.


See also