Terminal Year

Categories: Accounting

The last year in a given...thing. Like a contract. Or a mortgage. Or a life. It's when that piece of paper's, um, life...expires. Or terminates. And yes, it applies to humans as well.

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million dollars that million dollars is its terminal or end value and it can be [Pile of cash]

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terminal value terminal what things are worth at the end

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