Equity
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Equity may refer to:
Finance, accounting and ownership
- Equity (finance), the value of an ownership interest in property, including shareholders' equity in a business
- Stock The stock or capital stock of a business entity represents the original capital paid into or invested in the business by its founders. It serves as a security for the creditors of a business since it cannot be withdrawn to the detriment of the creditors. Stock is distinct from the property and the assets of a business which may fluctuate in, the generic term for common equity securities are called stock;
- Home equity Home equity is the market value of a homeowner's unencumbered interest in their real property—that is, the difference between the home's fair market value and the outstanding balance of all liens on the property. The property's equity increases as the debtor makes payments against the mortgage balance, and/or as the property value appreciates, the difference between the fair market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
- Private equity Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. Investments in private equity most often involve either an investment of capital into an operating company or the acquisition of an operating company. Capital for private equity is raised primarily, stock in a privately held company
- Equity in income of affiliates This refers to equity generated from strategic investments in consolidated or unconsolidated affiliate companies, i.e. investments in which the investing company has significant influence over the operating and financial policies of the investee (the legal entity into which an investor has made an equity investment). These investments are entered, an accounting term referring to the consolidated or unconsolidated ownership in affiliate companies
Fairness
- Equity (law) Equity is the name given to the set of legal principles, in jurisdictions following the English common law tradition, which supplement strict rules of law where their application would operate harshly. In civil legal systems, broad "general clause" allow judges to have similar leeway in applying the code, a branch of jurisprudence in common law jurisdictions
- Equity (economics) In welfare economics, equity may be distinguished from economic efficiency in overall evaluation of social welfare. Although 'equity' has broader uses, it may be posed as a counterpart to economic inequality in yielding a "good" distribution of welfare. It has been studied in experimental economics as inequity aversion, the study of fairness in economics
- In many political and legal systems, a concept encompassing ideals of justice Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics (fairness) or equality of opportunity Equality of opportunity, sometimes known as Equal Opportunity, is a term which has differing definitions and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning. In the classical sense, equality of opportunity is closely aligned with the concept of equality before the law, and ideas of meritocracy.
- Intergenerational equity Intergenerational equity, in the sociological and psychological context, is the concept or idea of fairness or justice in relationships between children, youth, adults and seniors, particularly in terms of treatment and interactions. It has been studied in environmental and sociological settings. In the context of institutional investment, equality and fairness in relationships between people of different ages
- Equity theory Equity Theory attempts to explain relational satisfaction in terms of perceptions of fair/unfair distributions of resources within interpersonal relationships. Equity theory is considered as one of the justice theories. It was first developed in 1963 by John Stacey Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who asserted that employees seek to, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
- Employment equity (Canada) Employment equity refers to Canadian policies that require or encourage preferential treatment in employment practices for certain designated groups: women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal peoples, and visible minorities. Employment equity goes beyond mere non-discrimination in requiring these specific groups be targeted for proactive, policy requiring or encouraging preferential treatment In psychology, preferences could be conceived of as an individual’s attitude towards a set of objects, typically reflected in an explicit decision-making process . Alternatively, one could interpret the term “preference” to mean evaluative judgment in the sense of liking or disliking an object (e.g., Scherer, 2005) which is the most typical in employment practices for certain designated groups
- Health equity
Companies and organizations
The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:
Companies
- Equity Bank Group Equity Bank Group, is a financial services organization in East Africa. The Group's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, and Uganda, Rwanda and Southern Sudan, a financial services provider in East Africa, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya
- Equity Bank (Uganda) , a subsidiary of the Equity Bank Group
- Equity Industries an electronics subsidiary of Chiaphua Components Group
- Equity Music Group Equity Music Group was an American country music record label founded in 2003 by singer Clint Black. The label was distributed by Koch Entertainment, a country music record label
- Equity Office Properties Trust Equity Office Properties Trust, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest owner of office buildings in the United States. It was formed in 1976 by Samuel Zell and in February 2007, was acquired by the Blackstone Group for $23 billion plus the assumption of $16 billion in debt . The acquisition was one of the largest leveraged buyouts, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States
- Equity Engenharia e Avaliações Ltda, empresa de Engenharia de Avaliações em São Paulo - Brasil (www.equity.com.br).
Organizations
- Actors' Equity Association The Actors' Equity Association , commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union embracing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or through-storyline (vaudeville, cabarets, circuses) may be, Labor union of actors and stage managers in the United States.
- Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
- Equity Party, also known as the Forum Party of Alberta The Forum Party of Alberta was a political party in the Province of Alberta, Canada. The party was created on March 2, 1995, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada
- Equity (trade union) Equity is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
Other
- In poker strategy The fundamental theorem of poker, introduced by David Sklansky, states that every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponent's cards, you gain and every time your opponent plays his cards differently from the way he would play them if he could see your cards, you gain. This theorem is the foundation for many poker, a player's expected share of the pot
- Brand equity Brand equity refers to the marketing effects or outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name compared with those that would accrue if the same product did not have the brand name . And, at the root of these marketing effects is consumers' knowledge. In other words, consumers' knowledge about a brand makes manufacturers/advertisers respond, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
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