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Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Derecognition

Accounting

The accounting test that decides whether transferred assets leave the balance sheet: have substantially all the risks and rewards passed to the buyer?

In plain terms

One question with two entirely different sets of financial statements behind it. Yes, and the loans go and a gain is booked now; no, and they stay and the cash received is a borrowing.

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Gain on assignment

Accounting
Also called: Gain on derecognition of assigned loans

The present value of the excess interest spread on a sold loan pool, recognised in income at the moment a transfer qualifies to come off the balance sheet.

In plain terms

Future interest brought into this quarter. It does not repeat unless another pool is sold, and it rests on disclosed assumptions about prepayment and default that reduce the spread actually collected.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya