Equity
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Equity may refer to:
Finance, accounting and ownership
[edit]- Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
- Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
- Home equity, the difference between the market value and unpaid mortgage balance on a home
- Private equity, stock in a privately held company
- The equity method of accounting for large investment interests
Business, justice and law
[edit]- Equity (law), in common law jurisdictions
- Equity (economics), the study of fairness in economics
- Educational equity, the study and achievement of population-proportionate group inclusion and credentialing in education
- Intergenerational equity, equality and fairness in relationships between people in different generations (including those yet to be born)
- Equity theory, on the relations and perceptions of fairness in distributions of resources within social and professional situations.
- Employment equity (Canada), policy requiring or encouraging the hiring of disenfranchised minorities
- Health equity, fairness and justice in health and healthcare
Education and social sciences
[edit]Companies and organizations
[edit]The word equity is also used in the names of the following companies and organizations:
Companies
[edit]- Equity Industries, an electronics subsidiary of Chiaphua Components Group
- Equity Music Group, a defunct American country music record label, founded by Clint Black
- EQ Office, one of the largest owners and managers of office buildings in the United States
Organizations
[edit]- Actors' Equity Association, United States labor union of actors and stage managers
- American Society of Equity, United States agrarian reform organization
- Canadian Actors' Equity Association, an association in Canada
- Equity (British trade union) (formerly British Actors' Equity Association), an association in the United Kingdom
- Forum Party of Alberta, a defunct political party from Alberta, Canada also known as the Equity Party
- Transportation Equity Network, American organization advocating equity-based transportation policies
Other
[edit]- Equity, Ohio, a community in the United States
- In poker strategy, a player's expected share of the pot
- In backgammon, the average expected value that will be won or lost
- Brand equity, in marketing, the value built up in a brand
- Equity (film), a 2016 American film directed by Meera Menon
- Equity (typeface), also known as Ehrhardt, a font designed by Matthew Butterick
- Urban forest inequity