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Short-Term Borrowing: A bond mutual fund holding short to intermediate-term bonds that have maturities of three to five years.

Short-Term Health Insurance: Temporary coverage for an individual for a short period of time, usually from 30 days to six months.

Short-Term Gain (Or Loss): A financial plan that covers the coming fiscal year.

Short-Term Investment Services: A profit or loss realized from the sale of securities held for less than a year that is taxed at normal income tax rates if the net total is positive.

Short-Term Solvency Ratios: Services that assist firms in making short-term investments.

Ultra-Short-Term Bond Fund: Applies to derivative products. Firm proprietary software that stores, and sends baskets of stock through SEAQ to either the NYSE or the curb for program trading.

Short-Term Tax Exempts: Ratios used to judge the adequacy of liquid assets for meeting short-term obligations as they come due, including (1) the current ratio, (2) the acid test ratio, (3) the inventory turnover r . . . View Full Definition

Borrowing: As Simon Horobin defines it, 'The process by which words are adopted into one language from another' (192). Linguists use this term because borrowing sounds better than the term stealing, wh . . . View Full Definition

Short-Term Financial Plan: Debt obligations, recorded as current liabilities, requiring payment within the year.

Limitation On Subsidiary Borrowing: A bond covenant that restricts in some way a firm's ability to borrow at the level of firm subsidiary.