Flexible Spending Account. Your employer may offer dependent care benefits by allowing you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for your child care expenses. This arrangement is a flexible spending account that is funded pre-tax contributions, deducted from your pay. For 2013, the maximum tax-free amount is $5,000.
golden parachute. A clause in an executive's employment contract specifying that he/she will receive large benefits in the event that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated.
A contract is an agreement between two or more persons (individuals, businesses, organizations, or government agencies) to do, or to refrain from doing, a particular thing in exchange for something of value.Contracts can generally be written using formal or informal terms, or they can be entirely verbal.ontracts are considered valid the moment that the offer is accepted. For example, if you shake hands and agree to purchase someoneâs old TV for $30, you have a valid contract. The contract is complete when you give them the money and they give you the TV.