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''Documentation and regulation.''
 
The elimination of physical certificates or documents of title which represent ownership of securities, so that securities exist only as accounting records.
Any financial shortfall, whether cumulative or for a single period.
 
 
2. ''Public finances.''
 
A government fiscal deficit, usually for a particular period, most often a year.
 
 
3. ''Pensions - defined benefit schemes.''
 
The accumulated excess of liabilities over assets in a funded Defined benefit pension scheme; also known as under-funding. 
 
 
'''Example'''
 
Pension liabilities = 100.
 
Pension assets = 90.
 
The deficit would be:
 
100 - 90
 
= 10. 
 
(Not to be confused with the percentage ''funding level'' which in this example would be 90 / 100 = 90%.)
 
 
Relevant accounting standards include Section 28 of FRS 102.
 


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Amortisation]]
* [[Documentation]]
* [[Debt]]
* [[Fiscal deficit]]
* [[FRS 102]]
* [[Funding level]]
* [[Multicurrency cross-border pooling]]
* [[Multicurrency one-country pooling]]
* [[Provision]]
* [[Surplus]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]

Revision as of 14:19, 23 October 2012

Documentation and regulation. The elimination of physical certificates or documents of title which represent ownership of securities, so that securities exist only as accounting records.

See also