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Parity Debt: Debt obligations issued or to be issued with an equal claim to other debt obligations on the source of payment for debt service.
 
Pay-As-You-Go Financing: Describes government financing of capital outlays from current revenues or grants rather than by borrowing.
 
Penalty: Punitive charge assessed for delinquent debts. The rate to be assessed is capped by law.
 
Personal Property: Tangible, movable assets, such as automobiles, planes, and boats.
 
Pre-Foreclosure Sale: The opportunity for borrowers who cannot meet their obligation (repayment of a loan) to sell their property in order to avoid foreclosure. Borrowers who agree to sell their property using this method are generally relieved of their loan obligation.
 
Preliminary Rating: A credit opinion from a rating agency based on a preliminary assessment assigned to a proposed bond issue.
 
Prepayment: Partial or full repurchase or other advance deposits of outstanding loan principal and interest by the borrower/debtor. The repurchase may be made at a discount from the current outstanding principal balance.
 
Present Value (PV): The value of future cash flows discounted to the present at certain interest rate (such as the entity's cost of capital or funds), assuming compounded interest. The GAO definition of present values is as follows: The worth of a future stream of returns or costs in terms of money paid immediately (or at some designated date). A dollar available at some date in the future is worth less than a dollar available today because the latter could be invested and earn interest in the interim. In calculating the net present value, prevailing interest rates provide the basis for converting future amounts into their "money now" equivalents. Under credit reform, the subsidy cost of direct loans and loan guarantees are to be computed on a present value basis and included as budget outlays at the time the direct or guaranteed loans are disbursed.
 
Principal: Amount loaned to the borrower and owed to the federal government which excludes interest, penalties, administrative costs, loan fees, and prepaid charges.
 
Program Account: Budget account into which an appropriation to cover the subsidy cost of a direct loan or loan guarantee program is made and from which such cost is disbursed to the financing account. Usually, a separate amount for administrative expenses is also appropriated to the program account.
 
Project Revenues: All rates, rents, fees, assessments, charges, and other receipts derived by a project sponsor from a project.
 
Purchase Rate: Total actual and projected dollars purchased, including principal and interest, on a guaranteed loan as a percentage of the total dollars disbursed for a given cohort of loans.
 
Purchase: If a borrower is in default for at least 60 days (SBA terms), the lender can request the Agency to honor its guarantee by purchasing SBA's pro-rata share of the debt outstanding to the lender. The purchase amount includes principal and up to 120 days (SBA terms) accrued interest.