Transaction or transactional may refer to:
Commerce
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Financial transaction
A financial transaction is an Contract, agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, Service (economics), services, or assets for payment. Any transaction involves a change in the status of the finances of two or mo ...
, an agreement, communication, or movement carried out between a buyer and a seller to exchange an asset for payment
*Debits and credits in a
Double-entry bookkeeping system
Double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a two-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information. Every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a ...
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Electronic funds transfer
Electronic funds transfer (EFT) is the transfer of money from one bank account to another, either within a single financial institution or across multiple institutions, via computer-based systems.
The funds transfer process generally consists ...
, the electronic exchange or transfer of money from one account to another
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Real estate transaction
A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g. in the case of conveyance one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). I ...
, the process whereby rights in a unit of property is transferred between two or more parties
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Transaction cost
In economics, a transaction cost is a cost incurred when making an economic trade when participating in a market.
The idea that transactions form the basis of economic thinking was introduced by the institutional economist John R. Commons in 1 ...
, a cost incurred in making an economic exchange
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Transactional law
Transactional law is the practice of private law relating to money, business, and commerce. Areas of focus include providing legal aid to entrepreneurs through contract drafting, real estate acquisition, and intellectual property affairs. Transact ...
, the practice of law concerning business and commerce
Computing
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Transaction processing
In computer science, transaction processing is information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations called ''transactions''. Each transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit; it can never be only partially c ...
, information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations
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Database transaction
A database transaction symbolizes a unit of work, performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, that is treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. A transaction generally rep ...
, a unit of work performed within a database management system
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Atomic transaction
In database systems, atomicity (; from ) is one of the ACID (''Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability'') transaction properties. An atomic transaction is an ''indivisible'' and '' irreducible'' series of database operations such that eithe ...
, a series of database operations such that either all occur, or nothing occurs
Other uses
*Transactions, the published
proceedings
In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings are a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the confer ...
of a learned society:
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Transaction Publishers
Transaction Publishers was a New Jersey–based publishing house that specialized in social science books and journals. It was located on the Livingston Campus of Rutgers University. Transaction was sold to Taylor & Francis in 2016 and merged w ...
, a New Jersey–based publishing house that specializes in social sciences books
*"Transaction" an episode of the ''Death Note'' anime series; see
List of Death Note episodes
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Transactional analysis
Transactional analysis is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social interactions (or "transactions") are analyzed to determine the id, ego, and superego, ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult- ...
, a psychoanalytic theory of psychology
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Transactional interpretation
The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (TIQM) takes the wave function of the standard quantum formalism, and its complex conjugate, to be retarded (forward in time) and advanced (backward in time) waves that form a quantum interact ...
, an interpretation of quantum mechanics
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Transactional leadership
Transactional leadership (or transactional management) is a type of leadership style that focuses on the exchange of skills, knowledge, resources, or effort between leaders and their subordinates. This leadership style prioritizes individual intere ...
, a leadership style described by James MacGregor Burns
See also
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