Interest
From ACT Wiki
1.
The amount, usually expressed as an annual percentage of the principal, charged for borrowing money, or earned from a fixed income investment or from a floating interest rate investment.
2.
Any difference between the terminal value and the present value of a borrowing or an investment, often expressed as a money amount (though it can also be expressed as a percentage).
3.
A right or expectation in relation to identified property, usually falling short of outright ownership.
For example, a minority interest in a business, or a security interest such as a lien.
4.
A broader class of rights or expectations, not necessarily attached to any particular property.
For example, the public interest.
See also
- Conflict of interest
- Conventional year
- Dual currency bond
- Earnings
- Gross interest
- Interest rate
- Interest rate differential
- Lien
- Minority interest
- NII
- Non-performing loan
- Paying agent
- Periodic
- Present value
- Principal
- Public interest
- Riba
- Security
- Self-financing loan
- Simple interest
- Time value of money
- Yield