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PAPER Definition
PAPER is: a. amount received, by a seller of real estate, in the form of a mortgage or note rather than cash; b. a short-term debt security; c. customer buy and sell orders coming to a trading pit; d. money market instruments, commercial paper.
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STATUTORY CONSOLIDATION is a merger where a new corporate entity is created from the two merging entities; the two merging entities then cease to exist. See also STATUTORY MERGER.
COST OVERRUN is the amount by which an entity exceeds or expects to exceed the estimated cost to completion of: a. a product; b. a process; or, c. the final limitations of costs stipulated in a contract.
