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Face Amount: The par value (i.e., principal or maturity value) of a security.
 
Financing Account: A non-budget account associated with each credit program account. The financing account holds fund balances, receives the subsidy cost payment from the credit program account, and includes all other cash flows to and from the government resulting from post-1991 direct loans or loan guarantees. (OMB Circular No. A-11, and OMB Circular No. A-34, "Instructions on Budget Execution," Part VI, "Credit Apportionment and Budget Execution," hereafter cited as OMB Circular No. A-34.)
 
Forbearance: The act of a creditor who refrains from enforcing a debt when it falls due. Various government credit programs, under specific conditions, offer borrowers certain protections against foreclosure.
 
Force Majeure: Events that are beyond the control of a contractor, such as earthquakes, epidemics, blockades, wars, acts of sabotage, and archeological site discoveries.
 
Foreclosure: Method of enforcing payment of a debt secured by a mortgage by seizing the mortgaged property. Foreclosure terminates all rights which the mortgagor has in the mortgaged property upon completion of due process through the courts.
 
Forgive: To grant relief from all or part of a debt under statutory authority. When an agency forgives a debt, or some portion thereof, it is deciding that the amount being waived is not now part of the government's claim.