'Effective date' vormt een essentieel onderdeel van de term en moet in de vertaling tot uiting komen.

http://investor.shareholder.com/hei/secfiling.cfm?filingid=9...
1.05 EFFECTIVE DATE BALANCE SHEET. As soon as practical (and in no event later than 60 days after the Closing Date), Buyer shall cause to be prepared and delivered to the Sellers (i) a balance sheet for the Company dated as of the Effective Date (the "Effective Date Balance Sheet"), and (ii) a calculation of the Purchase Price Adjustment, including such schedules and data as may be appropriate to support such calculation.

http://www.techagreements.com/agreement-preview.aspx?title=C...
(b) Seller shall prepare and deliver to Buyer, within sixty (60) days following the Closing Date, a balance sheet as of the Effective Date (the "Effective Date Balance Sheet") setting forth the Final Net Worth of the Business as of such date which shall have been audited by (…)

http://www.leagle.com/decision/19881788852F2d936_11628/SK HA...
Paragraph 3.2 of the Purchase Agreement stated that the Effective Date Balance Sheet would "fairly present in all material respects the asset values and liabilities for the items reflected thereon as of the Effective Date."


In dezelfde zin Black’s Law Dictionary, 9e druk, ISBN 978-0-314-19949-2:

‘effective date. The date on which a statute, contract, insurance policy, or other such instrument becomes enforceable or otherwise takes effect. This date sometimes differs from the date on which the instrument was enacted or signed.’