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Chapter 6
Time For Business - 1st Year
Term | Definition |
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A financial institution | provides financial service for its customers, including storing their money, managing payments and providing loans |
Types of financial institutions | Commercial Banks, Credit Unions, Building societies, The Post Office (An Post) |
A Commercial Bank | Is a bank that offers financial services to the general public and to business |
Current accounts | Are used for day-to-day banking needs |
Deposit/Savings accounts | Are used to save money |
ATM | Automated teller machiene |
A digital wallet | Is an online service that allows you to make electronic transactions |
A standing order | Is an instruction to a financial institution to pay fixed amounts to a specific person or organisation on a certain date |
Direct debit | Is used when the amount to be paid and/or the payment date are likely to change |
A credit transfer | Is a once-off instruction from a current account holder to their bank to transfer an amount of money to another account |
POS | Point of Sale |
DR | Over Drawn |
A cheque | Is a written instruction from an account holder to their bank to pay a specific amount of money to a named person or business |
An exchange rate | Is the price at which one currency can be exchanged for another |