Debit Balance

debit balance
A balance on the left side of an account in the general ledger. Typically expenses, losses, and assets have debit balances.
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Debit Balance
Debit Balance definition :
The amount that is owed to a broker by a margin customer for loans the customer uses to buy securities.
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Debit Balance
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Debit Balance
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DEBIT BALANCE - BALANCE remaining after one or a series of bookkeeping entries. This amount represents ...
DEBIT BUREAU - A service used by banks that will eventually track account opening and closing informati...

Adjusted Debit Balance
The amount of money owed by a customer to his/her broker after paper profits and losses are taken into consideration.

customers' net debit balance
total credit extended by New York Stock Exchange member firms to finance customer purchases of securities.
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Debit Balance
Money owed by the client to the broker.
Debt Securities
Securities representing money borrowed by an issuer that must be paid back at a specific date. The security pays interest or is purchased at a discount to face value.

Debit balance. In a customer's margin account, that portion of the purchase price of stock, bonds or commodities that is covered by credit extended by the broker to the margin customer.

Debit balance
The amount that is owed to a broker by a margin customer for loans the customer uses to buy securities.
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Debit balance
A debit balance is what you owe. It's entered as accounts receivable on the books of the lender and appears on your account statement as a liability.

debit balance: The amount of loan in a margin account.
debit card: A credit card tied to a checking account so that the amount charged is deducted from the checking account electronically.

Debit balance: Money owed to a broker/dealer by a customer.
Debit spread: An options spread position in which the premium paid on the long position is greater than the premium received on the short position.

Debit Balance
In a margin account, money owed by the customer to the broker for funds advanced to purchase securities.

Debit Balance
Money owed to a broker from the purchase of stock or bonds in a customer's margin account. This money is a loan extended by the broker to the margin customer and the customer pays interest on the debit balance in the account.

a debit balance in the overhead account at the end of a period; when the applied overhead amount is less than the actual overhead that was incurred
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See: Debit Balance; Margin; Margin Account; Selling Short; Special Miscellaneous Account ...

See: Adjusted Debit Balance
ADR
See: American Depository Receipt
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Customers' net debit balance
The total amount of credit given by NYSE member firms to finance customers purchasing securities.
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debit balance Simply put, a negative balance - where the account holder owes money to their... debit card A card that accesses cardholders. funds immediately, through electronic transfer....

Adjusted Debit Balance
Adjusted debit balance (ADB)
Adjusted Exercise Price
Adjusted futures price
Adjusted gross income
Adjusted gross income (AGI)
Adjusted Gross Income - AGI
Adjusted present value (APV)
Adjusted Present Value - APV
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In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any debit balance in a margin account. Equity is also shorthand for stock market investments.

(Education IRA) CPA CPE Credit Credit Agreement Credit Balance Creditor Current Asset Current Liability Current Value Date of Auditors'/Accountants' Report Death Benefit Debit Debit Balance ...

Debit balance Debit balances are monies owed to a broker/dealer by a customer generally resulting from the customer's purchase of securities. Debt Money borrowed. Default Failure to make timely payments on a debt.

All debit balances therefore that are not assets are losses, and per contra all credit balances that are not liabilities are profits.

If an account has a debit balance, the balance amount is copied into column two (the debit column). If an account has a credit balance, the amount is copied into column three (the credit column).

For example, Cash is an asset account with a debit balance, and is "appropriately" extended from the adjusted trial balance columns to the debit column of the balance sheet pair of columns.

account that has a nonzero credit or debit balance. Or 2. credit or charge account that is, an account initiated by a creditor on the basis of credit standing.

Notional pooling means that credit and debit balances of various companies are notionally aggregated and netted by the group's bank, without actual transfer of ownership of the funds taking place.

Underapplied overhead is a debit balance in the Manufacturing overhead account that arises when the amount of overhead cost actually incurred is greater than the amount of overhead cost applied to Work in progress during a period.
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If MO ends up with a debit balance, we say that overhead was "underapplied"; if MO ends up with a credit balance, we say that overhead was "overapplied." At the end of the year, the Manufacturing Overhead account is closed to Cost of Goods Sold.
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proving the ledger Adding all debit balances and all credit balances of ledger accounts and then comparing the two totals to see whether they are equal.
proxy A document that transfers a stockholder's voting rights to someone else.

A national currency such as the dollar or pound sterling, or international currency such as Special Drawing Rights, used by many countries to settle debit balances in their international accounts.

In a margin account, the amount by which the loan value exceeds the debit balance.
A bond on which the owner's name appears on the certificate.

There are other broader meanings to the word 'equity'. It can also refer to the value of securities over the debit balance in a margin account.
Equity has a slightly different meaning when it comes to home ownership! ...

A mortgage defines the collateral for a real estate loan or Note and a securities hypothecation agreement permits margin accounts and futures accounts by stating what is being pledged to cover positions, debit balances, or even deficit balances.

At year-end the costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings account has a debit balance of $300,000 and thus is represent as an asset on the balance sheet.

HYPOTHECATION " The pledging of securities as collateral. For example, to secure the debit balance in a margin account.

A liability account that normally has a debit balance.
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(While it is possible that minority ownership will have a debit balance, ordinarily minority ownership appears on the right side of the balance sheet.) On the income statement, ...

electronic clearing house that monitors and administers the process of check and fund clearance between banks. The ACH is an electronic system and thus minimizes the human work in the process of clearance. It distributes credit and debit balances ...

In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any debit balance in a margin account.

economic condition in which prices increase extremely rapidly as a currency loses its value. In essence, inflation is out of control....(Read more)
Hypothecation
The pledging of securities as collateral - for example, to secure the debit balance ...

See also: Expense, Banks, Margin account, Values, Bookkeeping