What is a vested balance?
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Most (Many) retirement accounts have two contributors - You and your employer.\n\nYour contributions (together with gains/loss) are always yours.\n\nThe employer contributions, usually have a VESTING schedule. That is, they contribute, but do not allow you to have all of the money immediately. Unfortunately, it means if you leave the company after 1 year, you get your money, and a portion of your employer contributions.\nSo it could be like this: Year 1 20%, year2 40% and so on until year5 where it is 100% - this is when your year end balance will equal the vested balance. So if you left the company after year 5 you would get your money plus all the company contributions together with any gain/loss.\n\nLook at your retirement plan documents - or even call your HR department and ask them for further detail.\n\nGood luck
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A reserve is a an asset contra-account to estimate future losses from the current.  Historically, reserves could also be created by a board of directors, such as reserves for new plant construction.  That would now at most be restricted cash.  Reserves were required under the old tax code to permit earnings to be retained rather than distributed.\n\nRetained earnings are an equity account above the amount paid in.  They are earnings retained for use by the business and not distributed to shareholders.
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Do you mean a "trial balance?"\n\nCheck out these links: \n\nhttp://www.quickmba.com/accounting/fin/trial-balance/\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/trial-balance\n\nHope this helps.\n\nGod Bless you!
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I don't know if you mean custodial account?  A custodial account (Like a UGMA or UTMA) is an account set up for a minor that's maintained by an adult (custodian).  Upon the age of majority (18 for UGMA, 21 for UTMA), the minor can take possession of the account.\n\nAny type of account that has a custodian is being held for the benefit of someone who is either legally or mentally unable to manage their account themselves.  \n\nAlso, financial service companies may act as custodians for certain types of money, like retirement assets.
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most companies will  pro-rate any paid vacation owed from the time of the year it became vested, minus any used time, and what part of the year your employment was terminated.\ni recently left such a job in april, and only received one weeks pay(i would have been entitled to take a total of 3 weeks this year) because i left after the 1st quarter of the yearly pay period\nask your human resource manager for their answer
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Contact a Mutual Fund, such as T.Rowe Price or Scudder or a number of others who will act as administrator for your plan for clarification of your needs. \n\nThe basic 401(k) plan simply allows employees to make pre-tax contributions up to a certain level, with no company contributions.
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Wow! Whole books have been written on the rule.\nIt's a rule that prevents property rights from being in limbo too long, or from accumulating estates in a family through indefinite transfers.\n\nAt common law, the length of time was fixed at 21 years after the death of an identifiable person alive at the time the interest was created. This is often expressed as "lives in being plus twenty-one years."  Under the common-law rule, one does not look to whether an interest actually will vest more than 21 years after the lives in being. Instead, if there exists any possibility at the time of the grant, however unlikely or remote, that an interest will vest outside of the perpetuities period, the interest is void and is stricken from the grant.\n\nRead the wikipedia page.  It's a pretty good resource.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_Against_Perpetuities
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Out of context, they just mean left (debit) or right (credit) on the ledger.\n\nAccounting uses 5 types of accounts. 3 are balance sheet accounts (asset, liability and owners equity accounts) and 2 are income statement accounts (revenue and expense accounts). \n\nThe balance sheet has asset accounts on the left and liability and owners equity accounts on the right.  The income statement has revenue accounts and expense accounts.  Think of income statement accounts as sub-accounts in the owners equity section of the balance sheet and the debits and credits will make more sense.\n\nAsset accounts normally have a debit balance, so debits increase an asset account and credits decrease an asset account.\n\nLiabilities and owners equity accounts normally have a credit balance, so credits increase a liability or equity account and debits decrease a liability or owners equity account.\n\nThe basic accounting formula that must hold true at all times is:\n\nAssets = Liabilities + Owners equity  \n\n(that's why it's called a balance sheet!)\n\nAll accounting transactions are recorded using double entry bookkeeping where the total of the debits must equal the total of the credits.  One side of a transaction may increase one asset while decreasing another. This would happen when cash (an asset) is paid for inventory (another asset). Inventory is debited and cash is credited.  If the company buys inventory on credit, then the transaction would be: Inventory is debited and Accounts Payable is credited. Accounts Payable is a liability account. When that bill gets paid: Accounts payable is debited and cash is credited.\n\nRevenue increases owners equity, so a revenue item is a credit. Expenses decrease owners equity, so an expense item is a debit. If expenses exceed revenues for a period, it is a loss and a net debit. (It reduces owners equity) If revenues exceed expenses for a period, it is a profit and a net credit. (It increases owners equity.)
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It refers to a closed-end fund. When a fund trades at a price lower than its per-share value, it is said to be trading at a discount to NAV (net asset value). A closed-end fund whose share price is falling in relation to its NAV is said to be trading at a "widening discount."
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A balance is the ability of one branch's power to be counteracted by another (e.g. presidential veto of a bill passed by congress).  A check is a mechanism by which one branch can discipline members of another who overstep the bounds of their authority or commit violations of ethics or the law (e.g. impeachment of the president by Congress).
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you may be referring to a Financial Statement which is something that both parties have to complete when involved in a family matter asking for (or contesting) child support and/or spousal support.\n\nboth the payor and the recipient must swear a financial statement as to their income, expenses and monthly surplus/deficit, in an effort to determine how much support is payable.\n\nhopefully this helped :o)
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assets = liabilities + stockholder's equity (A=L+E)\n\nif A-L < 0, then shareholder's equity is less than zero\n\nin other words, if you have more liabilities than assets
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Interest = Cash/Debt\n\nInterest is a percentage cash payment regularly paid to a creditor from a lender according to an agreed-upon rate.  No shares are involved the only thing the lender owns is the debt itself.  (When you use a savings account in most cases you are the lender and the bank is the creditor.)\n\nDIVIDEND = Equity\n\nA Dividend is a payment to a shareholder based on ownership of some sort of non-cash, non-debt equity such as a share of stock, mutual fund, credit union share, or money market account.  Not all dividends are paid regularly, not all are paid in cash, and they are usually not based on published rates.
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It lets you balance your check book!
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A Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) award is an agreement to issue stock at the time the award vests.  No shares are delivered until the employee satisfies the vesting schedule.  At that time, taxes are netted out of the units, with employees receiving company stock equal to the net after-tax value of the RSU.
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If they are sold to stockholders in exchange for cash, the cash is booked as paid-in capital.  (Actually, I believe the portion of the payment that constitutes payment of par value is booked as stockholder's equity, and the portion of payment that is above par value is tracked separately as paid-in capital in excess of par value.)  These are balance sheet items -- the company does not experience income when it sells its stock.
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99.99% of the time you loose it if it is equity. Equity is the last obligation to be settled.  There is seldom anything left.