Glossary
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Advance Rate 
A contractual percentage that a lender is willing to lend against eligible collateral.
Aged Inventory
Inventory which is stale or out of season as a result of not being sold for an extended period of time.
Agent
A lender who is assigned a specific role under a loan document. Agents include administrative, collateral, documentation, and syndication agents.
Aging
A schedule of accounts sorted by the month of an invoice’s original billing date.
Airball
The portion of an asset based loan which is not covered by collateral. Also known as a "stretch" or SOFA (secured over formula advance).
Allowance for Bad Debt
A contra-asset account on a company's balance sheet based on the amount of accounts receivable it expects to be unable to collect.
Amendment
A change to an existing provision of a loan agreement.
Amortization
The amount of principal on a term loan that a Borrower is contractually required to pay periodically under a loan agreement.