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UNFUNDED COMMITMENT Definition
UNFUNDED COMMITMENT is, as of any date of determination, the sum of legally binding calls upon current or future assets to where the assets or sums have not been identified or set aside to satisfy the commitment.
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YELLOW SHEETS is a daily publication of the National Quotation Bureau that details the bid and asked prices and firms that make a market in corporate bonds traded in the over-the-counter market. Yellow Sheets are to bonds what pink sheets are to unlisted stocks.
BIG BATH is a business strategy in which a company manipulates its income statement to make poor results look even worse. Strategy being that the following year will show significant improvement. Big bath is sometimes employed by new CEOs to make their first years results more impressive by employing big bath accounting to prior year results.
