APR |
Annual Percentage Rate |
|
CCL |
Center for Creative Leadership |
|
CMA |
Certified Management Accountant |
|
CSO |
Chief Security Officer |
|
ESA |
Employment Standards Administration |
|
FRA |
Federal Reserve Act |
|
GLB |
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act |
|
LHWCA |
Longshore and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act |
|
MOC |
Market On Close |
|
NDNH |
National Directory of New Hires |
|
OJT |
On-The-Job-Training |
|
SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
|
SSD |
Social Security Disability |
|
TPA |
Third Party Administrator |
|
USC |
United States Code |
|
WTW |
Welfare-to-Work |
|
(X) |
Export |
|
0DSAC |
90 days, same as cash |
|
3COM |
Computer, Communications and Compatibility |
|
3M |
Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company |
|
3PL |
Third Party Logistics |
|
4P |
Price, Product, Place and Promotion |
|
5S |
Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke |
|
7S |
Strategy, Structure, Systems, Style, Staff, Skills, Shared values |
|
A&A |
Advisory & Assistance |
|
A&A |
Assessment and Accreditation |
|
A&H |
Accident and health insurance |
|
A&I |
Accident and Indemnity |
|
A&MM |
Acquisition and Materiél Management |
|
A&MMS |
Acquisition and Materiél Management Service |
|
A&S |
Accident and sickness insurance |
|
A&W |
Allen & Wright (Roy Allen and Frank Wright combined their initials to name A&W Root Beer in 1922) |
|
A.O.B. |
Any other business |
|
A/E |
Architect/Engineer |
|
A/E |
Accured expense |
|
A/O |
Administrative Offices |
|
A/OPC |
Agency/Organization Program Coordinator |
|
A/P |
Accounts Payable |
|
A/R |
Accounts Receivable |
|
A/S |
Account sales |
|
AA |
Author Alteration |
|
AA |
Adverse Action |
|
AA |
Affirmative Action |
|
AA |
Average Audience |
|
AAA |
Authentication, Authorization & Access |
|
AAA |
American Automobile Association |
|
AAA |
authentication, authorization, and accounting |
|
AAA-CPA |
American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants |
|
AAAA |
American Association of Advertising Agencies |
|
AACU |
American Association of Colleges and Universities |
|
AAG |
Audit and accounting guides |
|
AAGR |
Annual average growth rate |
|
AAO |
Affirmative Action Officer |
|
AAPC |
Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee |
|
AAR |
Average Annual Return |
|
AARP |
American Association of Retired Persons |
|
AATF |
Airport and Airway Trust Fund |
|
ABA |
American Bankers Association |
|
ABA |
Accredited Business Accountant |
|
ABC |
Audit Bureau of Circulations Inc. |
|
ABC |
activity based costing |
|
abcp |
Asset Backed Commerical Paper |
|
ABF |
Asset-Based Financing |
|
ABLOS |
Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea |
|
ABM |
Activity Based Management |
|
ABMS |
Activities Based Management System |
|
ABO |
Accumulated Benefit Obligation |
|
ABP |
Average Benefit Percentage |
|
ABS |
Automated Bond System |
|
abs |
Asset Based Securitization |
|
ABV |
Accredited in Business Valuation |
|
AC |
Acceleration Clause |
|
AC |
Associate Chief of Staff |
|
ACABQ |
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions |
|
ACASTD |
Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development |
|
ACC |
Administrative Committee on Coordination |
|
ACC |
Accounting Classification Code |
|
ACCT |
Account |
|
ACFE |
Advisory Committee on Forestry Education |
|
ACFR |
Advisory Committee on Fishery Research |
|
ACH |
Automated Clearing House |
|
ACII |
American Association of Individual Investors |
|
ACLI |
American Council of Life Insurance |
|
ACO |
Administrative Contracting Officer |
|
ACP |
Average Contribution Percentage |
|
ACP |
Actual deferral percentage |
|
ACR |
Accrual |
|
ACRB |
Architectural Change and Review Board |
|
ACRS |
Accelerated Cost Recovery System (finance) |
|
ACV |
Account Current Value |
|
ACV |
Actual Cash Value |
|
ACW |
African Centre for Women |
|
ACWP |
actual cost for work performed |
|
AD |
Advertisement |
|
AD & D |
Accidental Death and Dismemberment |
|
AD&D |
Accidental Death and Dismemberment |
|
ADA |
Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation) |
|
ADA |
Associate Deputy Administrator |
|
ADAS |
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary |
|
ADB |
Asian Development Bank |
|
ADB |
African Development Bank |
|
ADC |
Acquisition, Development, and Construction |
|
ADEA |
Age Discrimination and Employment Act |
|
adea |
Age Discrimination in Employment Act's |
|
ADI |
After Date of Invoice |
|
ADI |
Area of Dominant Influence |
|
ADJ |
Adjust |
|
ADL |
activity of daily living |
|
ADP |
Automated Data Processing |
|
AdP |
Attention Dial Pulse |
|
AdP |
Applicable Distribution Period |
|
ADP |
Automatic Data Processor |
|
ADP |
Actual Deferral Percentage |
|
ADP |
Average Deferral Percent |
|
ADR |
American Depository Receipt |
|
ADR |
Asset Depreciation Range (finance) |
|
ADR |
Alternative Dispute Resolution |
|
ADR |
American Depositary Receipt |
|
ADS |
Alternative Depreciation System |
|
AE |
Actual Expense |
|
AE |
Account Executive |
|
AED |
United Arab Emirates Dirham |
|
AEI |
American Enterprise Institute |
|
AER |
Annual Equivalent Rate |
|
AET |
Accumulated Earnings Tax |
|
AETF |
African Emergency Task Force |
|
AFB |
American Farm Bureau, Inc. |
|
AFC |
Average fixed costs |
|
AFDA |
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts |
|
AFDC |
Aid to Families with Dependent Children |
|
AFE |
Average Funds Employed |
|
AFICS |
Association of Former International Civil Servants |
|
AFL-CIO |
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
|
afn |
Annual Funding Notice |
|
AFN |
Additional Funds Needed |
|
AFP |
Association for Financial Professionals |
|
AFR |
Applicable Federal Rate |
|
AFROWHO |
Regional Office for Africa |
|
AFSCME |
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employers |
|
AFTP |
Anonymous File Transfer Protocol |
|
AFTS |
Automatic Funds Transfer Services |
|
AGC |
Associated General Contractors of America |
|
AGFFA |
Advisory Group on Financial Flows to Africa |
|
AGFUND |
Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations |
|
AGGG |
Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases |
|
AGI |
Adjusted Gross Income |
|
AGR |
Adjusted Gross Revenue |
|
AGT |
Agent |
|
AIA |
American Institute of Architecture |
|
AIC |
Architecture and Infrastructure Committee |
|
aicpa |
L'American Institute of Certified Public Accountants |
|
AIDA |
Attention, Interest, Desire, Action |
|
AIG |
American International Group, Inc |
|
AIME |
Average Index Monthly Earnings |
|
AIMS |
Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions |
|
air |
Assumed Investment Rate |
|
AJB |
America’s Job Bank |
|
AJE |
Adjusting Journal Entry |
|
AL |
Assisted Living |
|
ALA |
American Legion Auxiliary |
|
ALBCC |
Account Level Budget Cost Center |
|
ALBM |
Automated Lending and Borrowing Mechanism |
|
ALBRS |
Automated Lending and Borrowing in Rolling Settlement |
|
ALC |
Agency Location Code |
|
ALC |
Alien Labor Certification |
|
ALDEP |
Automated Layout Design Programs |
|
ALEX |
AUTOMATED LABOR EXCHANGE |
|
ALJ |
Administrative Law Judge |
|
ALM |
Asset Liability Management |
|
ALTA |
American Land Title Transfer |
|
ALV |
Average Lease Value (Cars) |
|
AM |
Asset Management |
|
AMA |
American Medical Association |
|
AMA |
American Management Association |
|
AMC |
Appraisal Management Companies |
|
AMCD |
Audit and Management Consulting Division |
|
AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips) |
|
AMEX |
American Stock Exchange |
|
AMF |
American Machine & Foundry (bowling lane operators and former owners of Harley Davidson motorcycles) |
|
AMID |
Allowable Miscellaneous Itemized Deductions |
|
AML |
Adjustable Mortgage Loan |
|
AMPS |
Auction Market Preferred Stock |
|
AMT |
Amount for Married Taxpayers |
|
AMTFTC |
Alternative minimum tax foreign tax credit |
|
AMTI |
Alternative Minimum Taxable Income |
|
ANCOM |
Andean Common Market |
|
ANOVA |
Analysis of Variance (statistics) |
|
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
|
AO |
Authorizing Official |
|
AON |
Angolan New Kwanza |
|
AOQL |
Average Outgoing Quality Level |
|
AOV |
Average Order Value |
|
AP |
Accounts Payable |
|
apb |
Accounting Principles Board's |
|
APIC |
Additional paid-in capital |
|
APOC |
Administrative Point of Contact |
|
approx |
Approximate |
|
APR |
Annual Percentage Rate |
|
APT |
Arbitrage Pricing Theory |
|
APV |
Adjusted Present Value |
|
APY |
Annual Percentage Yield |
|
AQL |
Acceptable Quality Level |
|
AR |
Accounts Receivable |
|
AR |
Architecture Requirements |
|
ARB |
Architecture Review Board |
|
arb |
Accident Review Board |
|
ARC |
American Red Cross |
|
ARD |
Actual retirement date |
|
ARM |
Adjustable Rate Mortgage |
|
ARNP |
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner |
|
ARO |
After Receipt of Order |
|
ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (early internet) |
|
ARR |
Average Rate of Return |
|
ARS |
Auction Rate Securities |
|
ART |
Annual Renewable Term (life insurance) |
|
ASAE |
American Society of Association Executives |
|
ASB |
Auditing Standards Board's |
|
ASB |
Accounting Standards Board |
|
ASBL |
American Small Business League |
|
ASCI |
Advertising & Standards Council of India |
|
ASCII |
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
|
ASEAN |
Association of South East Asian Nations |
|
ASF |
American Securitization Forum |
|
ASG |
Assistant Secretary General |
|
ASHHRA |
American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration |
|
ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
|
ASP |
Active Server Page |
|
ASP |
Application Service Provider |
|
ASPPA |
American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries |
|
ASR |
Accelerated Stock Repurchase |
|
asse |
American Society of Safety Engineers-Professional |
|
ASTD |
American Society for Training and Development |
|
ASU |
Accounting Standards Update |
|
AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph (U.S. company, also known as "Ma Bell") |
|
ATA |
Accredited Tax Advisor |
|
ATB |
Adjusted Trial Balance |
|
ATB |
Across the Board |
|
ATB |
Accountants Trial Balance |
|
ATCF |
After Tax Cash Flow |
|
ATF |
As Trustee for |
|
ATM |
Automatic Teller Machine |
|
ATNOL |
Alternative Minimum Tax Net Operating Loss |
|
ATNOLD |
Alternative Minimum Tax Net Operating Loss Deduction |
|
ATO |
Asset Turnover |
|
ATO |
Administrative Time Off |
|
ATOI |
After Tax Operating Income |
|
ATP |
Acquisition Training Program |
|
ATP |
Accredited Tax Preparer |
|
ATR |
Americans for Tax Reform |
|
ATTN |
Attention |
|
BD |
Business Development |
|
BDC |
Business Development Center |
|
BDC |
Business Development Council |
|
BDF |
Beneficiary Designation Form |
|
bdi |
Behavioral Description Interview |
|
BDI |
Brand Development Index |
|
BEA |
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
|
BEIT |
Business Enterprise Income Tax |
|
BEST |
BrihnanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport |
|
BET |
Business entity tax |
|
BFOQ |
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification |
|
BFP |
Bona Fide Purchaser |
|
BGT |
Budget |
|
BHAG |
Big Hairy Audacious Goal |
|
BHC |
Bank Holding Company |
|
BI |
Business Intelligence |
|
BIA |
Business Impact Analysis |
|
BID |
Business Improvement District |
|
BIMS |
Business Information Management Suite |
|
BIMST-EC |
Bangladesh India Myanmar Srilanka Thailand - Economic Council |
|
BIOLAC |
United Nations University Programme for Biotechnology in Latin America and the Caribbean |
|
BIRLS |
Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem |
|
BIS |
Bank of International Settlements |
|
biw |
Biweekly |
|
BKPR |
Be Kind, Please Rewind |
|
BKPR |
Bookeeper |
|
BLBA |
Black Lunch Benefits Act |
|
BLESS |
Borrowing and Lending Securities Schemes |
|
BLM |
Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior |
|
BLS |
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor |
|
BML |
Bean Markup Language |
|
BMVC |
Baghdad Monitoring Verification Centre |
|
BMW |
Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works) |
|
BNA |
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. |
|
BNI |
Business Needs and Investment |
|
BNIB |
Business Needs and Investment Board |
|
BOA |
Basic Ordering Agreement |
|
BOC |
Business Operations Committee |
|
BOC |
Budget Object Code |
|
BOD |
Board of Directors (Budget) |
|
BOE |
Bank of England |
|
BOI |
Business Object Interface |
|
BOL |
Bill Of Lading |
|
BOMA |
Building Owners and Managers Association |
|
BONUCA |
United Nations Peace-Building Office in the Central African Republic |
|
BOO |
Build Own Operate |
|
BOOT |
Build Own Operate Transfer |
|
BOP |
businessowners policy |
|
BOP |
Bureau Of Prisons |
|
BOS |
Behavior Observation Scale |
|
BoT |
Board of Trustees |
|
BOT |
Balance of Trade |
|
BOV |
Broker’s Opinion of Value |
|
BOY |
Beginning of Year Violator |
|
BPA |
Blanket Purchase Agreement |
|
BPA |
Blanket purchase authoriation |
|
BPC |
Budget Priority Committee |
|
BPC |
Business Planning Cycle |
|
bpd |
barrels per day |
|
BPM |
business process management |
|
BPM |
Business Performance Management |
|
BPML |
Business Process Modeling Language |
|
BPO |
Business Process Optimization |
|
BPO |
Budget process outsourcing |
|
BPO |
Broker Price Opinion |
|
BPO |
Bargain Purchase Option |
|
BQ |
Best Qualified |
|
BRB |
Benefit Review Board |
|
BRC |
Business Reply Card |
|
brd |
Business Requirements Documentation |
|
BRE |
Business Reply Envelope |
|
BREP |
Business Requirements Engineering Process |
|
BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
|
BRIC |
Brazil, Russia, India and China |
|
BRICS |
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa |
|
BRM |
Business Reference Model |
|
BRM |
Business Relationship Meeting |
|
BRSP |
Bureau for Resources and Strategic Planning |
|
BS |
Balance Sheet |
|
BSA |
Bank Secrecy Act |
|
BSAD |
Baseline System Architecture Document |
|
bsm |
Black-Scholes-Merton |
|
BSNL |
Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited |
|
BTCF |
Before Tax Cash Flow |
|
BTT |
Business Transfer Tax |
|
BU |
Bargaining Unit |
|
BV |
Book value |
|
c&a |
Certification & Authority |
|
C&B |
Compensation and Benefits |
|
C&D |
Cease and Desist |
|
C&F |
Cost and Freight |
|
C&I |
Commercial and industrial customers (Electricity transmission) |
|
C&P |
Compensation & Pension |
|
C-CPI |
Chained Consumer Price Index |
|
C-CPI-U |
Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers |
|
C-TPAT |
Customs-Trade Industry Against Terrorism |
|
C.&F. |
Cost and freight |
|
C.L.U.E. |
Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange |
|
C2C |
Consumer To Consumer. Marketing/trading model by which ordinary people sell and provide products/services to each other. It's an ancient model, prehistoric in fact, virtually extinguished by the industrial revolution and corporate age, (see B2B/B2C), alth |
|
C2C |
Customer to Customer |
|
CA |
Confidentiality Agreement |
|
CAA |
Congressional Accountability Act |
|
CAD |
Cash Available for Distribution |
|
CADR |
Cash available for distribution before debt reduction |
|
CAE |
Computer-Aided Engineering |
|
CAE |
Certified Association Executive |
|
CAFR |
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report |
|
CAFTA |
Central American Free Trade Agreement |
|
CAGR |
Compounded Annual Growth Rate |
|
CAGR |
Compound Annual Growth Rate |
|
CAI |
Computer Assisted Instruction |
|
CALS |
Continuous Acquisition Lifecycle Support |
|
CAM |
Common Area Maintenance (charges related to commercial leases) |
|
CAMPS |
Cumulative Auction Market Preferred Stock |
|
CAO |
Contract Administration Office |
|
CAO |
Chief Accounting Officer |
|
CAPEX |
Capital Expenditure |
|
CAPM |
Capital Asset Pricing Model |
|
CAPP |
Cash Account Pension Plan |
|
CAPS |
Convertible Adjustable Preferred Stock |
|
CARDS |
Custom Adjustable Rate Debt Structure |
|
CASB |
Cost Accounting Standards Board |
|
CASE |
computer-automated software engineering |
|
CAT |
Commercial Activity Tax |
|
CATS |
Certificate of accrual on Treasury securities |
|
CB |
Carryback |
|
CBA |
Controlled Business Arrangement |
|
CBA |
Cost Benefit Analysis |
|
CBC |
Community Based Outpatient Clinic |
|
CBC |
Complete Blood Count |
|
CBCMC |
Clinical Bar Code Multidisciplinary Committee |
|
CBD |
Cash Before Delivery |
|
CBD |
Chief Benefits Director |
|
CBFA |
Committee on Budget, Finance and Administration |
|
CBHCO |
Community-Based Health Care Organization |
|
CBI |
Compliance and Business Integrity |
|
CBIT |
Comprehensive Business Income Tax |
|
CBL |
Common Business Language |
|
CBO |
Congressional Budget Office |
|
CBO |
Chief Business Office |
|
CBOT |
Chicago Board of Trade |
|
CBPP |
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
|
CBRS |
Currency banking and retrieval system |
|
CBT |
Computer Based Training |
|
CC |
Capital Contribution |
|
CC |
Copy To |
|
CC |
Civil Code |
|
cca |
Consolidated Contracting Activity |
|
CCAQ |
Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions |
|
CCAQ(FB) |
Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions (Financial and Budgetary Questions) |
|
CCAQ(PER) |
Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions (Personnel and General Administrative Questions) |
|
CCB |
Change Control Board |
|
CCC |
Commodity Credit Corporation |
|
CCC |
Cost Containment Center |
|
CCD |
Centralized Contracting Division |
|
CCH |
Commerce Clearing House |
|
CCHR |
Canadian Council on Human Resources |
|
CCI |
Consumer Confidence Index |
|
CCISUA |
Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System |
|
ccm |
Completed Contract Method |
|
CCOP |
Coordinating Committee for Coastal and Offshore Geoscience Programmes in East and South East Asia |
|
CCP |
Certified Compensation Professional |
|
CCP |
Collateralized commercial paper |
|
CCPA |
Consumer Credit Protection Act |
|
CCPISA |
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies |
|
CCPOQ |
Consultative Committee on Programme and Operational Questions |
|
CCR |
Central Contracting Registry |
|
CCR |
Central Contractor Registeration |
|
ccs |
Care Coordination Services |
|
CCSQ |
Consultative Committee on Substantive Questions |
|
CCSQ(OPS) |
Consultative Committee on Substantive Questions (Operational Activities) |
|
CCSQ(PROG) |
Consultative Committee on Substantive Questions (Programme Matters) |
|
CD |
Certificate of Deposit |
|
CDARS |
Certificate of Account Registry Service |
|
CDC |
Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
|
CDFI |
Community Development Financial Institution |
|
CDHP |
consumer-driven health plan |
|
CDI |
Category Development Index |
|
CDL |
Commercial Driver's License |
|
CDO |
Collateralized Debt Obligation |
|
CDP |
Committee for Development Policy |
|
CDR |
Centre for Documentation and Research |
|
CDS |
Credit default swaps |
|
CE |
Continuing Education |
|
CE&O |
Customer education and outreach |
|
CEA |
Council of Economic Advisors |
|
CEA |
Chief Enterprise Architect |
|
CEA |
Certificate of Educational Achievement |
|
CEA |
Commodity Exchange Authority |
|
CEBS |
Certified Employee Benefit Specialist |
|
CEBS |
Certified Employee Benefits Specialist |
|
CEC |
Continuing Education Center |
|
CEDAW |
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
|
CEFU |
Continuing Education Field Unit |
|
CEHIST |
Center for Evaluation of Healthcare Information Systems & Technology |
|
CEIS |
Corporate Executive Information System |
|
CEIT |
Comprehensive business income tax |
|
CEMP |
Comprehensive Emergency Management Program |
|
CEN |
Committee European de Normalisation |
|
CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
|
CEOSH |
Center for Engineering & Occupational Safety and Health |
|
CEPS |
Cash Earnings Per Share |
|
CERD |
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
|
CESA |
Coverdell education savings account |
|
cescr |
Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
|
CETA |
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1975 |
|
CEU |
Continuing Education Unit |
|
CF |
Cash Flow |
|
CFA |
Chartered Financial Analyst |
|
CFA |
Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes |
|
CFA |
Consumer Federation of America |
|
CFAT |
Cash Flow After Taxes |
|
CFBT |
Cash flow before taxes |
|
CFC |
Chartered Financial Consultant |
|
CFC |
Court of Federal Claims |
|
CFE |
Certified Financial Examiner |
|
CFIA |
Competency Framework for Internal Auditing |
|
CFIUS |
Committee on Foreign Investment in United States |
|
CFM |
Construction Facility Management |
|
CFO |
Communication Filing Officer |
|
CFO |
Chief Financial/Fiscal Officer |
|
CFOC |
Chief Financial Officers Council |
|
CFP |
Clinical Financial Planner |
|
CFP |
Certified Financial PlannerTM |
|
cfpb |
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau |
|
CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
|
CFROI |
Cash Flow Return on Investment |
|
CFRS |
Carry Forward in Rolling Settlement |
|
CFS |
Committee on World Food Security |
|
CFS |
Container Freight Station |
|
CFTA |
Currency and Foreign Transaction Act |
|
CFTC |
Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
|
CGA |
Charitable Gift Annuity |
|
CGL |
Comprehensive General Liability |
|
CGMA |
Chartered Global Management Accountant |
|
CGQ |
Corporate Governance Quotient |
|
CGS |
Cost of Goods Sold |
|
CGT |
Capital Gains Tax |
|
CHB |
Custom House Broker |
|
CHFC |
Chartered Financial Consultant |
|
CHL |
Customs house license |
|
CHR |
Commission on Human Rights |
|
CHRC |
Canadian Human Rights Commission |
|
CHRC |
Criminal History Records Check |
|
CHRO |
Chief Human Resource Officer |
|
CHS |
Commission on Human Settlements |
|
CI |
Control Item |
|
CI |
Contract Item |
|
CIA |
Certified Internal Auditor (US) |
|
CIC |
Consumer Information Center |
|
CICA |
Competition in Contracting Act (1984) |
|
CICP |
Centre for International Crime Prevention |
|
CIF |
Cost, Insurance, and Freight (Paid) (shipping) |
|
CIFR |
Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting |
|
CIK |
Central index keys |
|
CIM |
Corporate Information Model |
|
CIM |
Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
|
CIMA |
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants |
|
CIMC |
Certified Investment Management Consultant |
|
CIMO |
Commission for Methods of Observation |
|
CIO |
Chief Investment Officer |
|
CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
|
CIOFO |
Chief Information Office Field Office |
|
CIP |
Capital Investment Process |
|
CIP |
Carriage and Insurance Paid to |
|
CIP |
Capital Investment Proposal |
|
CIPP/G |
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Government |
|
CISC |
Common Instruction Set Computer |
|
CISO |
Chief Information Security Officer |
|
CISSP |
Certified Information Systems Security Professional |
|
CIT |
Corporate Income Tax |
|
CIX |
Commercial Internet Exchange |
|
CK |
Calvin Klein |
|
CLA |
Cross-Licensing Agreement |
|
CLAT |
Charitable Lead Annuity Trust |
|
CLO |
Collaterialized loan obligation |
|
CLU |
Chartered Life Underwriter |
|
CLUT |
Charitable Lead Unitrust |
|
CMA |
Comparative Market Analysis |
|
CMA |
Certified Management Accountant |
|
CMBS |
Commercial mortgage-backed securities |
|
CME |
Chicago Mercantile Exchange |
|
CMM |
Capability Maturity Model |
|
CMMI |
Capability Maturity Model Integrated |
|
CMO |
Chief Marketing Officer |
|
CMO |
Collateralized Mortgage Obligation |
|
CMS |
Content Management System |
|
CMSA |
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area |
|
CMT |
Constant Maturity Treasury |
|
CMYK |
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black |
|
CNC |
Currently Not Collectible |
|
CNF |
Cost, not freight |
|
CNS |
Continuous Net Settlement |
|
CO |
Compliance Officer |
|
CO |
Contracting Officer |
|
COAG |
Committee on Agriculture |
|
COAS |
Clinical Observation Access Control |
|
Cob |
close of business (End of duty day) |
|
COBRA |
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 |
|
COBRA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
|
COCA |
Cost of capital allowance |
|
COD |
Cash On Delivery |
|
cod |
Country Operations Division |
|
COD |
Cancellation of Debt |
|
CODA |
Cash or Deferred Arrangement (401K) |
|
CODASYL |
Committee on Data Systems Languages |
|
CODI |
Cancellation of Debt Income |
|
COE |
Certificate of Eligibility |
|
COFI |
Cost of Funds Index |
|
COFI |
Committee on Fisheries |
|
COFO |
Committee on Forestry |
|
COGS |
Cost of Goods Sold |
|
COHRS |
Central Office Human Resources Service |
|
COI |
Conflict Of Interest |
|
COL |
Cost Of Living |
|
COLA |
Cost of Living Adjustment (or Allowance) |
|
COLI |
Cost of Living Index |
|
Comp. |
Item given for free |
|
congo |
Conference on Non-Governmental Organizations |
|
COO |
Chief Operation Officer |
|
COOP |
Continuity of Operations |
|
COP |
Conference of the Parties |
|
COPICS |
Communication Oriented Production and Information Control System |
|
CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
|
CORBAIIOP |
CORBA Internet Inter ORB Protocol |
|
CORELAP |
Computerised Relationship Layout Planning |
|
CORTS |
Corporate-backed trust securities |
|
COS |
Cost of sales |
|
COS |
Chief of Staff |
|
COSG |
Collaborative Opportunities Steering Group |
|
COSO |
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations |
|
COST |
Council on State Taxation |
|
COSVA |
Chief of Staff |
|
COTR |
Contracting Officer Technical Representative |
|
CP |
Contingency Plan |
|
CP |
Commercial Paper |
|
CPA |
Comprehensive Plan of Action |
|
CPA |
Certified Public Accountant |
|
CPC |
Cost Per Click-through |
|
CPC |
Committee for Programme and Coordination |
|
CPCU |
Chartered property and casualty underwriter |
|
CPD |
Comprehensive Programme on Disarmanent |
|
CPDO |
Constant Proportion Debt Obligation |
|
CPE |
Continuing Professional Educational |
|
CPFFC |
Cost-plus-fixed-fee contract |
|
CPG |
Consumer Packaged Goods |
|
CPHR |
California Professional in Human Resources Certification |
|
CPI |
Consumer Price Index |
|
CPI |
Cost Performance Index |
|
CPI-U |
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers |
|
CPI-W |
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers |
|
CPIC |
Capital Planning and Investment Control |
|
cpk |
Cost Per Keyword |
|
CPK |
California Pizza Kitchen |
|
CPLTD |
Current portion of long-term debt |
|
CPM |
Critical Path Method |
|
CPM |
Corporate Performance Management |
|
CPM |
Cost Per Thousand |
|
CPM |
Certified Property Manager |
|
CPM |
Continuous Passive Motion |
|
CPO |
Chief of Purchasing Office |
|
CPO |
Cost Per Order |
|
CPOE |
Computerized Physician Order Entry |
|
CPP |
Consumer Preferences and Policy |
|
CPP |
Cost Per rating Point |
|
CPP |
Capital Purchase Program |
|
CPR |
Committee of Permanent Representatives |
|
CPR |
Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation |
|
CPS |
Core Products and Services |
|
CPSC |
Consumer Products Safety Commission |
|
CPTAL |
Capital |
|
CR |
Continuing Resolution |
|
CRA |
Credit Rating Agency |
|
CRAFT |
Computerised Relative Allocation of Facilities Techniques |
|
CRAT |
Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust |
|
CRC |
Committee on the Rights of the Child |
|
CRFB |
Committe for Responsible Federal Budget |
|
CRISIL |
Credit Rating Investment Services India Limited |
|
crm |
Customer Relationship Management |
|
CRM |
Client Relationship Management |
|
CRM |
Credit Risk Management |
|
CRO |
Chief Risk Officer |
|
CROGI |
Cash Return on Gross Investment |
|
CRPC |
Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor |
|
CRS |
Congressional Research Service |
|
CRSR |
Congressional Research Service Report |
|
CRT |
Charitable Remainder Trust |
|
CRUT |
Charitable Remainder Unitrust |
|
CS |
Cost-Sharing |
|
CSA |
Common Services Architecture |
|
CSA |
Cost Sharing Arrangement |
|
CSA |
Capital Support Agreements |
|
CSBU |
Center for Small Business Utilization |
|
CSCIS |
Computer Software Configuration Items |
|
CSCs |
Computer Software Components |
|
csd |
Commission on Sustainable Development's |
|
CSD |
Commission for Social Development |
|
CSE |
Customer Service Environment |
|
CSEMO |
Corporate Senior Executive Management Office |
|
CSF |
Critical Success Factor |
|
CSHO |
Compliance Safety and Health Officer |
|
CSI |
Commissioners Standard Industrial Mortality Table |
|
CSO |
Commissioners Standard Ordinary |
|
CSO |
Cyber Security Office |
|
CSO |
Central Statistical Organisation |
|
CSP |
Certified Speaking Professional |
|
CSP |
Cyber Security Professional |
|
CSPN |
College Savings Plan Network |
|
csr |
Corporate Social Responsibilty |
|
CSR |
Customer Service Representative |
|
CSRS |
Civil Service Retirement System |
|
CSUM |
Common Security User Manager |
|
CSV |
Cash Surrender Value |
|
CSVLI |
Cash surrender value life insurance |
|
CT |
Commercial Technology |
|
CTFA |
Certified trust & financial advisor |
|
CTI |
Computer/Telephone Integration |
|
CTI |
Category, Type, Item |
|
CTJ |
Citizens for Tax Justice/Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
|
CTO |
Compensatory Time Off |
|
CTO |
Chief Technology Officer |
|
CTR |
Currency Transaction Report |
|
CTS |
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
|
CTV |
Capital Timber Value |
|
CUM |
Cumulative |
|
Cum Div |
Cumulative dividend |
|
Cum Pfd |
Cumulative preferred |
|
cuna |
Credit Union National Assocation |
|
CUPA |
College and University Personnel Association |
|
CUSFTA |
Canada-US Free Trade Agreement |
|
CUSIP |
The Committee Of Uniform Security Identification Procedures |
|
CV |
Curriculum Vitae |
|
CV |
Cost Variance |
|
CVE |
Center for Verification and Evaluation |
|
CVLI |
Cash Value Life Insurance |
|
CVP |
Cost-Volume-Profit |
|
CWHSSA |
Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act |
|
CWSP |
College Work-Study Program |
|
CY |
Calendar Year |
|
D&B |
Dun & Bradstreet |
|
d&f |
Determination & Finding |
|
d&o |
Directors and Officers Liability |
|
D/L |
Demand loan |
|
D/N |
Demand note |
|
D/O |
Delivery Order |
|
D2D |
Developer to Developer |
|
DAC |
Delivery Against Cost |
|
DAF |
Donor Advised Fund |
|
DAGMAR |
Defining Advertising Goals for Measured Advertising Results |
|
DAN |
Depositor Account Number |
|
DAP |
Direct Access Program |
|
DAPT |
Domestic Asset Protection Trust |
|
DAW |
Division for the Advancement of Women |
|
DB |
Defined Benefit (retirement Plan; For Example, A Pension) |
|
DBA |
Davis-Bacon Act |
|
DBA |
Doing Business As |
|
DBA |
Data Base Administrator |
|
DBB |
Design-bid-build |
|
DBIA |
Database Integration Agreement |
|
DBIC |
Data Base Integration Committee |
|
DBM |
Disruptive Behavior Management |
|
DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
|
DBO |
Death Benefit Only |
|
DBPP |
Defined Benefit Pension Plan |
|
DBT |
Days Beyond Terms |
|
DC |
Developed Countries |
|
DC |
Defined Contribution |
|
DCA |
Dollar Cost Averaging |
|
DCAA |
(U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency |
|
DCAP |
Dependent Care Assistance Program |
|
DCAP |
Dependent Care Assistance Plan |
|
DCF |
discounted cash flow rate |
|
DCM |
Department Cost Manager |
|
DCP |
Defined Contribution Plan |
|
DCPP |
Defined Contribution Pension Plan |
|
DCR |
Debt Coverage Ratio |
|
DDB |
Double-Declining-Balance |
|
DDB |
Doyle Dane Bernbach |
|
DDB |
Deemed death benefit |
|
DDSN |
Demand-driven supply networks |
|
DDU |
destination delivery unit |
|
DEC |
Deductible voluntary employee contributions |
|
DEFRA |
Deficit Reduction Act |
|
Depr. |
Depreciation |
|
DES |
Data Encryption Standard |
|
DESA |
Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
|
DESIPA |
Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis |
|
DFA |
Department of Finance and Administration |
|
DFAS |
Defense Financial Accounting Service |
|
dfeh |
Department of Fair Employment and Housing's |
|
DFI |
Derivative Financial Instrument |
|
DFL |
Degree of Financial Leverage |
|
DFS |
Dancer Fitzerald Sample |
|
DGAACS |
Department of General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services |
|
DGFT |
Director General of Foreign Trade |
|
DHL |
Dag Hammarskjöld Library |
|
DI |
Derivative instrument |
|
DI |
Debt instrument |
|
DI |
Disability Insurance |
|
DIC |
Document Identifier Code |
|
DIH |
Days Inventory Held |
|
DII |
Days in Inventory |
|
DIMA |
Division of Information Management and Analysis |
|
DINKS |
Dual Income, No Kids |
|
DIO |
Days Inventory Outstanding |
|
DIP |
Debtor In Possession |
|
DIT |
Deposit in Transit |
|
DITC |
Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities |
|
DITE |
Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development |
|
DJIA |
Dow Jones Industrial Average |
|
DK |
Dorling Kindersley |
|
DKNY |
Donna Karan New York |
|
DM |
Direct Mail |
|
DM |
Department of Management |
|
DMA |
Designated Market Area |
|
DMAIC |
Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control |
|
DMB&B |
D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles |
|
DME |
Development/Maintenance/Enhancement |
|
DMFAS |
Debt Management and Financial Analysis System |
|
DNA |
Distributed Internet Application Architecture |
|
DNAMTI |
Distributable Net Alternative Minimum Taxable Income |
|
DNS |
Domain Name System |
|
DOB |
Date Of Birth |
|
DOBI |
Department of Defense Instruction |
|
DOC |
Doctor |
|
DOCO |
Development Operations Coordination Office |
|
DOD |
United States Department of Defense |
|
DOE |
United States Department of Energy (government) |
|
DOH |
Days inventory On Hand |
|
DOI |
Date of Injury |
|
DOJ |
Department of Justice (US) |
|
DOL |
Degree of Operating Leverage |
|
DOL |
United States Department of Labor |
|
DOLETA |
Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration |
|
DOM |
Distributed Order Management |
|
DOT |
Department of Transport |
|
DOT |
Dictionary of Occupational Titles |
|
DPA |
Department of Political Affairs |
|
DPGA |
Deferred Payment Gift Annuity |
|
DPI |
Department of Public Information |
|
DPKO |
Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
|
DPO |
Days payables outstanding |
|
DPP |
Direct Participation Program |
|
DPP |
Deferred Payment Plan |
|
DPSP |
Deferred Profit Sharing Plan |
|
dr |
Direct Response |
|
dr. |
Debit |
|
DRAM |
Dynamic Random Access Memory (dee-ram) (computing) |
|
DRC |
Deficit Reduction Contribution |
|
DRIP |
Dividend Reinvestment Plan |
|
DRM |
Division for Resources Mobilization |
|
DRO |
Domestic Relations Order |
|
DRP |
distribution requirements planning |
|
DRP |
Disaster Recovery Plan |
|
drpc |
Division for Resources Planning and Coordination |
|
DRTV |
Direct Response Television |
|
DSA |
Disaster Debt Set-Aside Program |
|
DSD |
Division for Sustainable Development |
|
DSI |
Discretionary Salary Increase |
|
DSO |
Day Sales Outstanding |
|
DSPD |
Division for Social Policy and Development |
|
DSPE |
Deputy Senior Procurement Executive Known |
|
DSPP |
Direct Stock Purchase Plan |
|
DSRSG |
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General |
|
DST |
Delaware stautory trust |
|
DSW |
Discount Shoe Warehouse |
|
DTA |
Deferred tax assets |
|
dtcc |
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp |
|
DTI |
Department of Trade and Industry (UK) |
|
DTL |
Deferred Tax Liability |
|
DTP |
Data Transfer Program |
|
DUA |
Disaster Unemployment Assistance |
|
DUNS |
Data Universal Numbering System |
|
DUS |
Dollar Unit Sampling |
|
DUSB |
Deputy Undersecretary for Benefits |
|
DUSH |
Deputy Under Secretary for Health |
|
DUSHOM |
Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management |
|
DUZ |
Designated User |
|
DVA |
Debt value adjustment |
|
DVOP |
Disabled Veterans Outreach Program |
|
DVP |
Delivery Versus Payment |
|
DW |
Dislocated Worker |
|
DWC |
Division of Workers Compensation |
|
DWC |
Days working capital |
|
E&IT |
Electronic and Information Technology |
|
E&P |
Earnings & Profits |
|
E.O. |
Executive Order |
|
E/M |
Evaluation and Management |
|
EA |
Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ]) |
|
EA |
Enrolled Agent |
|
EAC |
Employee Advisory Committee |
|
EAO |
Executive and Administrative Office |
|
EAP |
Employee Assistance Plan |
|
EAP |
Employee Assistance Program |
|
EAPA |
Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Inc |
|
EAR |
Export Administration Regulations |
|
EAT |
Exchange Accommodation Titleholder |
|
EB |
Extended Benefits |
|
Ebita |
Earnings before interest taxes depreciation amortization |
|
EBO |
Employee Buyout |
|
EBO |
Equity buy out |
|
EBP |
Employee Benefits Plan |
|
EBRI |
Employee Benefits Research Institute |
|
EBRI |
Employee Benefit Research Institute |
|
EBS |
Employee Benefits Security |
|
EBSA |
Employee Benefits Security Administration |
|
ebsa |
Employee Benefit Security Administration's |
|
EBT |
Earnings Before Tax |
|
EBX |
Electronics Boutique X |
|
ECA |
Economic Commission for Africa |
|
ECAB |
Employee's Compensation Appeals Board |
|
ECB |
European Central Bank |
|
ECDC |
Economic Cooperation Among Developing Countries |
|
ECE |
Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe) |
|
ECF |
Extended Care Facility |
|
ECI |
Employment Cost Index |
|
ECLAC |
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carebbean |
|
ECM |
Enterprise Content Management |
|
ECM |
Excess cash margin |
|
ECM |
Energy Conservation Measures |
|
ECN |
Electronic Communications Network |
|
ECOA |
E-Mail Change of Address |
|
ECOA |
Equal Credit Opportunity Act |
|
ECOMOG |
Economic Community of West African States' Monitoring Observer Group |
|
ECOSOC |
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
|
ECOWAS |
Economic Community of West African States |
|
ECP |
Engineering Change Proposals |
|
ECP |
Emergency Conservation Program |
|
ECR |
Executive Conference Room |
|
ECS |
Event Capture System |
|
ECS |
Enterprise Class Storage |
|
ecu |
Emergency Coordination Unit |
|
eda |
Economic Development Administration's |
|
EDA |
Economically Depressed Area |
|
EDGAR |
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval |
|
EDI |
Electronic Date Interchange |
|
EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
|
EDP |
Employee Development Plan |
|
EDWOSB |
Economically disadvantaged woman-owned business |
|
EE |
Employee |
|
EECB |
Executive E-mail Carpet Bomb |
|
EEO |
Equal Employment Opportunity |
|
EEOC |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
|
EEOICPA |
Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act |
|
eeprom |
Electric Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
|
EFA |
Education for All |
|
EFAST |
ERISA Filing Acceptance System |
|
EFT |
Electronic Funds Transfer |
|
EFTA |
European Free Trade Area |
|
EFW |
Electronic Funds Withdrawal |
|
EGI |
Effective Gross Income |
|
EGM |
Extraordinary General Meeting |
|
EGTRRA |
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 |
|
EHLP |
Emergency Homeowners Loan Program |
|
EIA |
Equity Indexed Annuity |
|
EIC |
Earned Income Tax Credit |
|
EIC |
Earned Income Credit |
|
EIN |
Employer Identification Number |
|
EIS |
Environmental Impact Statement (US) |
|
EISA |
Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
|
EITC |
Earned Income Tax Credit |
|
ELI |
Equity Linked Investments |
|
elp |
Electing large partnership |
|
EM |
Emergency Loan Program |
|
EMA |
Expense Management Automation |
|
EMA |
Exponential Moving Average |
|
EMIF |
Emerging Issues Task Force |
|
EMP |
Environmental Planning and Management |
|
EMROWHO |
Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
|
EMS |
Eastern Mountain Sports |
|
EMT |
Executive Management Team |
|
EMV |
Europay, Master Card and Visa |
|
EO |
Executive Order |
|
EOB |
Explanation Of Benefits |
|
EOD |
End Of Day |
|
EOE |
Equal Opportunity Employer |
|
EOI |
Evidence of Insurability |
|
EOI |
Expression Of Interest |
|
EOLI |
Employer owned life insurance |
|
EOM |
End Of Month |
|
EOQ |
economic order quantity |
|
EOSG |
Executive Office of the Secretary-General |
|
EOU |
Export Oriented Unit |
|
EOY |
End-Of-Year |
|
EP |
Earned Premium |
|
EPA |
Expanded Programme of Assistance |
|
EPA |
Equal Pay Act |
|
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (US) |
|
EPAU |
Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit |
|
epcm |
Exempt-contract, percentage-of-completion method |
|
EPI |
Expanded Programme on Immunization |
|
EPLI |
Employment Practices Liability Insurance |
|
EPLI |
Employee practices liability insurance |
|
EPPA |
Employee Polygraph Protection Act |
|
EPPG |
Emergency Prevention and Preparedness Group |
|
EPROM |
Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory |
|
EPRS |
Emergency Preparedness and Response Section |
|
EPS |
Earnings per share |
|
EPTA |
Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance |
|
EPZ |
Export Processing Zone |
|
ERCI |
Employee Relocation Council Institute |
|
ERD |
Emergency Response Division |
|
ERISA |
Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
|
ERM |
Enterprise Resource Management |
|
ERM |
Enterprise Risk Management |
|
ERP |
Estimated Retail Price |
|
ERP |
Emergency Response Plan |
|
ERS |
Economic Research Service |
|
ERTA |
Economic Recovery Tax Act |
|
ERV |
Estimated Rental Value |
|
ESA |
Coverdell education savings account |
|
ESAF |
Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility |
|
ESCAP |
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN) |
|
ESI |
Electronically Stored Information |
|
ESL |
English as a second language |
|
ESO |
Employee Stock Option |
|
ESOP |
Employee Stock Option Plan |
|
ESOP |
Employee Stock Ownership Plan |
|
ESOT |
employee stock ownership trust |
|
ESOT |
Employee Stock Ownership and Trust |
|
ESP |
Exchange Stock Portfolio |
|
ess |
Employee Self-Service System |
|
EST |
Eastern Standard Time |
|
ETA |
Employment and Training Administration |
|
ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
|
ETA |
Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration |
|
ETC |
Estimate To Completion |
|
ETF |
Exchange Traded Fund |
|
ETN |
Exchange Traded Note |
|
ETR |
United Nations Education and Training Programme |
|
ETR |
Effective Tax Rate |
|
EU |
European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC) |
|
EURIBOR |
Euro Interbank Offered Rates |
|
EUROWHO |
Regional Office for Europe |
|
EV |
Enterprise Value |
|
EVA |
Economic Value Added |
|
EVM |
Earned Value Management |
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EXCOM |
Executive Committee |
|
EXP |
Export |
|
F&C |
Free and Clear |
|
F&F |
Furniture & Fixtures |
|
F/B/O |
For benefit of |
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f/k/a |
Formally known as |
|
F2F |
Face-to-Face Meeting |
|
FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
|
FAAS |
Financial Assurance and Accountability Standards |
|
FABs |
Financial and Business Solutions |
|
FAC-C |
Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting |
|
FAC-P/PM |
Federal Acquisition Certification Program/Project Management |
|
FACCT |
Foundation for Accountability |
|
FACHE |
Fellow in American College of Healthcare Executives |
|
FACT |
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 |
|
FAK |
Freight all kinds |
|
FALD |
United Nations Field Administration and Logistics Division |
|
FAME |
Facilities Maintenance Engineering |
|
FANNIE MAE |
Federal National Mortgage Association (a privately owned corporation) |
|
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
|
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
|
FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
|
FAS |
Financial Accounting Standards |
|
FAS |
Finance and Accounting System |
|
FAS |
Free Alongside Ship |
|
FASAB |
Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Board |
|
FASAB |
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board |
|
FASAC |
Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council |
|
FASAC |
Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Committee |
|
FASB |
Financial Accounting Standards Board |
|
FASIT |
Financial asset securitization investment trusts |
|
FBAR |
Foreign Bank & Financial Account |
|
FCA |
Farm Credit Administration |
|
FCA |
Division for Finances, Control and Administration |
|
FCB |
Foote Cone & Belding |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission (US) |
|
FCCC |
For the Framework Convention on Climate Change |
|
FCCPA |
Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 |
|
FCF |
Free Cash Flow |
|
FCFE |
Free Cash Flow to Equity |
|
FCIC |
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission |
|
FCRA |
Fair Credit Reporting Act |
|
FDA |
Food Drug Administration |
|
FDCPA |
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act |
|
FDIC |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
|
FEA |
Fair Employment Act |
|
FECA |
Federal Employer’s Compensation Act |
|
FEI |
Financial Executives Institute |
|
FEIN |
Federal Employment Identification Number |
|
fela |
Federal Employment Liability Act |
|
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
|
FEP |
Fair Employment Practices |
|
FEP |
Fair employment practice |
|
FERC |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.) |
|
FERS |
Federal Employees Retirement System |
|
FF&E |
Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment |
|
FFIEC |
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council |
|
FFO |
Funds from operations |
|
FFY |
Federal Fiscal Year |
|
FGM |
Female Genital Mutilation |
|
FHA |
Federal Housing Administration |
|
FHLB |
Federal Home Loan Bank |
|
Fhlmc |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, United States |
|
FIA |
Federal Insurance Administration |
|
FICA |
Federal Insurance Contribution Act |
|
FICCI |
Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
|
FICCO |
Fair Issac Credit Organization |
|
FIE |
Foreign-Invested Enterprise |
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out |
|
FinCEN |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |
|
FINRA |
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
|
FIRPTA |
Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act |
|
FISMA |
Federal Information Security Management Act |
|
FIT |
Financial institutions tax |
|
FITW |
Federal Income Tax Withholding |
|
FLC |
Foreign Labor Certification |
|
FLP |
Family Limited Partnership |
|
FLRA |
Federal Labor Relations Authority's |
|
FLSA |
Fair Labor Standards Act |
|
FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission's |
|
FMCS |
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
|
FmHA |
Farmers Home Administration |
|
FMLA |
Family and Medical Leave Act |
|
FMLA |
Family Medical Leave Act |
|
FMOC |
Federal Open Market Committee |
|
FMR |
Fair Market Rental |
|
FMRR |
Financial Management Rate of Return |
|
FMS |
Financial Management Service |
|
FMSHA |
Federal Mine and Safety Health Act |
|
FMV |
Fair Market Value |
|
FNA |
Financial needs analysis |
|
FNMA |
Federal National Mortgage Association |
|
FO |
Foreign to occupation |
|
FOB |
Free On Board |
|
FOF |
Fund of Funds |
|
FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
|
FOIA |
Freedome of Information Act |
|
FOK |
Fill-or-kill order |
|
FOM |
Field Operations Manual |
|
FOMC |
Federal Open Market Committee |
|
FOREX |
Foreign Exchange |
|
FP |
Fixed Price |
|
FPL |
Federal Poverty Level |
|
FPM |
Flexible Payment Mortgage |
|
FpML |
Financial Products Markup Language |
|
FPO |
Fruit Products Order |
|
FR |
Federal Register |
|
FRA |
Full Retirement Age |
|
FRB |
Federal Reserve Board |
|
frf |
Financial Reporting Framework |
|
FRN |
Floating rate notes |
|
FROI |
First Report of Injury |
|
FRS |
Functional Requirements Specifications |
|
FRS |
Federal Reserve System |
|
FRV |
Fair Rental Value |
|
FS |
Forest Service (USDA) |
|
FS |
Financial Statement |
|
FSA |
Flexible Spending Arrangement |
|
FSA |
Farm Service Agency |
|
FSA |
Flexible Spending Account |
|
FSB |
Fortune Small Business |
|
FSET |
Federal State Employment Taxes |
|
FSI |
Free Standing Insert |
|
FSLIC |
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation |
|
FSLMRA |
Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Act |
|
FSP |
FASB Staff Position |
|
FSR |
Financial Strength Rating |
|
FSS |
Federal Supply Schedule |
|
FT |
Full-Time |
|
FTA |
Free-Trade Agreement |
|
FTC |
Federal Trade Commission (U.S.) |
|
FTD |
Federal Tax Deposit |
|
FTE |
Full-Time Employee |
|
FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
ftr |
family tracing and reintegration |
|
FUA |
Federal Unemployment Account |
|
FUBU |
For Us By Us |
|
FUNSA |
Federation of Staff Association of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies |
|
FUTA |
Federal Unemployment Tax Act |
|
FVO |
Fair Value Option |
|
FWCW |
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women |
|
FWT |
Federal Withholding Tax |
|
FY |
Fiscal Year |
|
FYE |
Fiscal year ended |
|
G2B |
Government to Business |
|
G2C |
Government to Consumer |
|
G2G |
Government to Government |
|
GA |
General Assembly |
|
GA |
General Agent |
|
GAAC |
Government Accounting and Auditing Committee |
|
GAAFR |
Governmental Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting |
|
GAAP |
Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures |
|
GAAP |
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
|
GAAS |
Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. Perhaps only marginally less contradictory than GAAP, but they do exist, honestly. |
|
GAGAS |
Generally Accepted Government Accounting Standards |
|
GAO |
Government Accounting Office |
|
GAO |
Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office] |
|
GAO |
General Accountability Office |
|
GAP |
Gross amount paid |
|
GAS |
Governmental Accounting Standards |
|
GASB |
Governmental Accounting Standards Board |
|
GATB |
General Aptitude Test Battery |
|
GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government) |
|
GAW |
Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO) |
|
GAW |
Guaranteed Annual Wage |
|
GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU) |
|
GCT |
General Corporation Tax |
|
GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
|
GE |
General Electric American Communications Inc. |
|
GED |
General Equivalency Diploma |
|
GEENET |
Global Environmental Epidemiology Network |
|
GEF |
Global Environmental Facility (environment) |
|
GEICO |
Government Employees Insurance Company |
|
GEM |
Growing Equity Mortgage |
|
GEMS |
Global Environment Monitoring System |
|
GEO |
Global Environment Outlook Report |
|
GFE |
Good Faith Estimate |
|
GIC |
Guaranteed Investment Contract |
|
GICS |
Global Industry Classification Standards |
|
GIF |
Guaranteed Investment Fund |
|
GIF |
Graphic Interchange Format |
|
GIM |
Gross Income Multiplier |
|
GINA |
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 |
|
GIPS |
Global Investment Policy Standards |
|
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
|
GIST |
Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology |
|
GIWA |
Global International Waters Assessment |
|
GL |
General Ledger |
|
GL |
General Liability |
|
Gla |
Gross Leaseable Area |
|
GLSO |
Group Legal Services Organization |
|
GM |
Gross Margin |
|
GMIB |
Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefit |
|
GMP |
Guaranteed Maximum Price |
|
GMP |
Good Manufacturing Practice |
|
GMWB |
Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit |
|
GNC |
General Nutrition Centers |
|
GNMA |
Government National Mortgage Association |
|
GNP |
gross national product (economics) |
|
GOI |
Gross Operating Income |
|
GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU) |
|
GOV |
Government Owned Vehicle |
|
GP |
Gross Profit |
|
GPHR |
Global Professional in Human Resources |
|
GPI |
Gross potential income |
|
GPM |
Graduated Payment Mortgage |
|
GPML |
Global Programme Against Money Laundering |
|
GPO |
Government Printing Office |
|
GPO |
Guaranteed Purchase Option |
|
gpp |
Gross Profit Percentage |
|
GPROI |
Gross Profit Return on Investment |
|
GPRS |
General Packet Radio System |
|
GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
|
GR |
General Revenue |
|
GRAT |
Grantor Retained Annuity Trust |
|
GRC |
Goverance, risk and compliance |
|
GRID |
Global Resource Information Database (UNEP) |
|
GRIT |
Grantor Retained Income Trust |
|
GRM |
Gross Rent Multiplier |
|
GRP |
Gross Rating Point |
|
GRUT |
Grantor Retained Unitrust |
|
GSA |
U.S. General Services Administration |
|
GSF |
Gross Square Feet |
|
GSI |
general salary increase |
|
GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
|
GSR |
General Securities Representative |
|
GST |
Generation-Skipping Transfer |
|
GST |
Goods and Services Taxation |
|
GSTP |
Global System of Trade Preferences |
|
GTC |
Good Till Canceled Order |
|
GTL |
Group Term Life Insurance. |
|
GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
|
GWAC |
Government Wide Acquisition Contract |
|
GWG |
Gender Working Group |
|
HAC |
Health Administration Center |
|
HAFA |
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative program |
|
HARP |
Home Affordable Refinance Program |
|
HAZMAT |
Hazardous Material |
|
HB |
House B ill |
|
HC |
Humanitarian Coordinator |
|
HC |
human capital |
|
HCA |
head of contracting activity; humanitarian and civic assistance |
|
HCE |
Highly Compensated Employee |
|
HCFA |
Health Care Financing Administration |
|
HCIP |
Harmonized Index of Consumer Pricing |
|
HCM |
Human Capital Management |
|
HCO |
Health Care Organization |
|
HCSA |
Health Care Spending Account |
|
HCTC |
Health Coverage Tax Credit |
|
HDAPT |
Hybrid domestic asset protection trust |
|
HDI |
Human Development Index (UNDP yardstick of human welfare) |
|
HDML |
Handheld Device Markup Language |
|
HDR |
Humanitarian Daily Ration |
|
HDRO |
Human Development Report Office |
|
HEA |
Health Enterprise Architecture |
|
HECM |
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage |
|
HELOC |
Home Equity Line of Credit |
|
HEP |
Humanitarian Evacuation Programme |
|
HFA |
Housing Finance Agency |
|
HFS |
Hold for sale |
|
HHS |
Health and Human Services Department |
|
Hibor |
Hong Kong interbank offered rate |
|
HIPC |
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries |
|
HIPPA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
|
HMO |
Health Maintenance Organization |
|
HMO |
Health Maintenance Organisation |
|
HOW |
Homeowner Warranty Plan |
|
HP |
Hewlett Packard's |
|
hpi |
Human Poverty Index |
|
HPS |
Headquarters Procurement Section |
|
HQ |
Headquarters (HDQ Preferred) |
|
HQS |
Housing Quality Standards |
|
HR |
Headquarters Regulation |
|
HR |
Human Resource |
|
hr |
Human Rights's |
|
hr |
Headquarters Report |
|
HR |
HUMAN RESOURCES |
|
HR&A |
Human Resources and Administration |
|
HRA |
Health Reimbursement Arrangement |
|
HRA |
Health Reimbursement Account |
|
HRC |
Health Resource Center |
|
HRC |
Historic Rehabilitation Credit |
|
HRCI |
Human Resource Certification Institute |
|
HRD |
Human Resource Development |
|
HRI |
Human Rights Instruments |
|
HRIS |
Human Resources Information System |
|
HRIS |
Human Resources Information Service |
|
HRIS |
Human Resource Information System |
|
HRLY |
Hourly |
|
HRM |
Human Resource Management |
|
HRMS |
Human Resource Management System |
|
HROD |
Human Resources and Organizational Development |
|
HSA |
Health Savings Account |
|
HSBC |
Household Bank Corporation |
|
HST |
Health Statistics |
|
HTTP |
Hyper Text Transport Protocol |
|
HUD |
Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.) |
|
HUDCO |
Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited |
|
HUT |
Households Using Television |
|
HVAC |
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning |
|
HVCC |
Home Valuation Code of Conduct (mortgage and appraisal industry) |
|
HWRP |
Hydrology and Water Resources Programme |
|
I&A |
Interest and amortization |
|
I-9 |
I-9 Form |
|
I-TIPS |
Information Technology Investment Portfolio System |
|
IAAS |
Infrastructure as a Service |
|
IAB |
Internet Advertising Bureau |
|
IACSD |
Inter-Agency Committee on Sustainable Development |
|
IACWGE |
Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equity |
|
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
|
IAF |
Inflation Adjustment Factor |
|
IAG |
International Advisory Group |
|
IAG |
International Auditing Guidelines |
|
IAM |
Identity and Access Management |
|
IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
|
IAP |
Initial advance payment |
|
IAPSO |
Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office |
|
IAS |
International Accounting Standards |
|
IAS |
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies |
|
IASA |
Internation Air Shipper's Association |
|
IASB |
International Accounting Standards Board |
|
IASC |
Inter-Agency Standing Committee |
|
IASC |
International Accounting Standards Committee |
|
IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
|
IBAN |
International Bank Account Number |
|
IBC |
Independent Breweries Company (original manufacturer of IBC Root Beer) |
|
IBD |
Investors Business Daily |
|
IBDOEI |
Income before discontinued operations and extraordinary items |
|
IBEW |
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers |
|
IBM |
International Business Machines Corporation |
|
IBNR |
Incurred But Not Reported |
|
IBR |
Income-based repayment |
|
IBRD |
International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (part Of The World Bank) |
|
IC |
Internal Control |
|
ICANN |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
|
ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
|
ICC |
International Criminal Court |
|
ICC |
International Chamber of Commerce |
|
ICDAIT |
International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficing |
|
ICDB |
International Childrens' Day of Broadcasting |
|
ICDC |
International Child Development Centre |
|
ICE |
Internal control evaluation |
|
ICE |
Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics |
|
ICFR |
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting |
|
ICFY |
International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia |
|
ICGFI |
International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation |
|
ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
|
ICM |
Incentive Compensation Management |
|
ICPD |
International Conference on Population and Development |
|
ICQ |
Internal Control Questionnaire |
|
ICRA |
Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency |
|
ICS |
Information Centres Services |
|
ICSAB |
International Civil Service Advisory Board |
|
ICSC |
International Civil Service Commission |
|
ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
|
IDA |
Industrial Development Authority |
|
IDA |
International Development Association |
|
IDB |
Industrial Development Board |
|
IDB |
Industrial Development Bond |
|
IDIQ |
Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity |
|
IDIT |
Intentionally defective irrevocable trust |
|
IDNDR |
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
|
IDP |
Internally Displaced Person |
|
IDR |
Issuer Default Rating |
|
IDS |
Income Deposit Securities |
|
IDS |
International Development Strategy |
|
IEC |
Inter Exchange Carrier |
|
IEFR |
International Emergency Food Reserve |
|
IETC |
International Environmental Technology Centre |
|
IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
|
IFAD |
International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN) |
|
IFB |
Invitation For Bid |
|
IFC |
International Finance Corporation |
|
IFEBP |
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans |
|
IFOR |
Implementation Force |
|
IFRIC |
International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee |
|
IFRS |
International Financial Reporting Standard |
|
IFUP |
International Forum on Urban Poverty |
|
IGE |
Intergovernmental Group of Experts |
|
IGO |
Intergovernmental Organization |
|
IHRIM |
International Association of Human Resource Information Management |
|
IIA |
Institute of Internal Auditors |
|
IIOP |
Internet Inter operable ORB Protocol |
|
IIST |
United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology |
|
ILAB |
Bureau of International Labor Affairs |
|
ILC |
International Law Commission |
|
ILC |
Industrial Loan Company |
|
ILIT |
Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust |
|
ILM |
Industrial Light and Magic, Inc. |
|
ILO |
International Labor Organization (UN) |
|
IM |
Information Management |
|
IM/DQ |
Identity Management/Data Quality |
|
IM/IT |
Information Management/Information Technology |
|
IMAP |
Internet Message Access Protocol |
|
IMC |
Integrated Market Communications |
|
IME |
Independent Medical Examination |
|
IMF |
International Monitary Fund |
|
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
|
IMFL |
Indian-Made Foreign Liquor |
|
IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
|
IMPACT |
Inventory Management Program and Control Techinques |
|
Imr |
Information Management Research |
|
IMRB |
Indian Market Research Bureau |
|
IMRO |
Investment Management Regulatory Organisation |
|
INA |
Immigration and Naturalization Act |
|
INC |
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee |
|
Inc. |
Incorporated |
|
INCB |
International Narcotics Control Board |
|
ING |
Internationale Nederlanden Group (a Financial Company) |
|
INMARSAT |
Convention on the International Mobile Satellite Organization |
|
INRA |
United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa |
|
INS |
Immigration & Naturalization Service |
|
INSARAG |
International Search and Rescue Advisory Group |
|
INSTRAW |
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women |
|
INTECH |
United Nations University Institute for New Technologies |
|
INWEH |
United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health |
|
IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
|
Iolta |
Interest on Lawyer's Trust Account |
|
IOS |
International Organization for Standards |
|
IP |
Intellectual Property |
|
IP |
Internet Protocol |
|
IPA |
Inflation Protected Annuity |
|
IPC |
Integrated Programme for Commodities |
|
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP) |
|
IPCS |
International Programme on Chemical Safety |
|
IPDC |
International Programme for the Development of Communications |
|
IPECILO |
International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour |
|
IPI |
Industrial Protection Index |
|
IPMA |
International Personnel Management Association |
|
IPO |
Incorporated to Provide |
|
IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
|
IPS |
Investment Policy Statement |
|
IPs |
Inflation Protected Security |
|
IPTF |
International Police Task Force |
|
IQPA |
Independent Qualified Public Accountant |
|
IRA |
Individual Retirement Account |
|
IRA |
Individual Retirement Arrangement |
|
IRB |
Internal Revenue Bulletin |
|
IRC |
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 |
|
IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
|
IRCA |
Immigration Reform and Control Act |
|
IRD |
Income in respect of a decedent |
|
IRDA |
Insurance Regulatory Development Authority |
|
IREA |
Intermountain Rural Electric Association |
|
IRIN |
Integrated Regional Information Networks |
|
IRMAA |
Income Related Medicare Adjustment Amount |
|
IRP |
Industry Risk Premium |
|
IRR |
Internal Rate of Return |
|
IRS |
U.S. Internal Revenue Service |
|
ISA |
International Seabed Authority |
|
ISBA |
International Seabed Area |
|
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
ISM |
Interactive Studio Management |
|
ISMUN |
International Student Movement for the United Nations |
|
ISO |
Incentive Stock Option |
|
ISO |
Independent Sales Organization |
|
ISO |
International Standard Organisation |
|
ISO/MSP |
Independent sales organization/Member service provider |
|
ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
|
ISSA |
International Securities Services Association |
|
IT |
Information Technology |
|
ITA |
International Trade Administration |
|
ITAAC |
IT Acquisition Advisory Council |
|
ITAC |
Information Technology Advisory Committee |
|
ITAM |
IT asset management |
|
ITARP |
IT Activity Resource Proposal |
|
ITARS |
IT Acquisition Request System |
|
ITBAT |
IT Budget Analysis Team |
|
ITC |
Information Technology Center |
|
Itc |
International Trade Center |
|
ITC |
International Training Centre |
|
ITC |
Information Technology Conference |
|
ITEAM |
Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Management |
|
ITEP |
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
|
ITF |
In Trust For |
|
ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
|
ITIN |
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number |
|
ITLO |
Information Technology Logistics Office |
|
ITLOS |
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
|
ITMP |
Information Technology Management Program |
|
ITMRA |
Information Technology Management Reform Act (Part of the Clinger-Cohen Act) |
|
ITOC |
Information Technology Oversight & Compliance |
|
ITS |
Intermarket Trading System |
|
ITSD |
Information Technology Services Division |
|
ITSM |
Information Technology Service Management |
|
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
|
IUC |
Information Unit for Conventions |
|
IUR |
Insured Unemployment Rates |
|
IVR |
Interactive Voice Response (telephone technology) |
|
J&S |
Joint and Survivorship |
|
J/E |
Journal entry |
|
JAIN |
Joint American Indian Network |
|
JAN |
Job Accommodation Network's |
|
JC Penney's |
James Cash Penney |
|
Jct |
Joint Committee on Taxation |
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JD |
Juris Doctorate |
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JD |
Job Description |
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JEC |
Joint Economic Committee |
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JECFA |
Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives |
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JEEP |
Joint Ethics Enforcement Plan |
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JGTRRA |
Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act |
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JIT |
Just in time |
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JIU |
Joint Inspection Union |
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JOA |
joint operating agreement |
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JOLTS |
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey |
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JPAC |
Joint Public Advisory Committee |
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (24-bit image storage format) |
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JPO |
Junior Professional Officer |
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JRPU |
Joint Reintegration Programming Unit |
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JSSA |
Jury Selection and Service Act |
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JTPA |
Job Training Partnership Act |
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JUNIC |
Joint UN Information Committee |
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JV |
Joint Venture |
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JVC |
Japan's Victor Company |
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k/a |
Known as |
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Kfc |
Kentucy Fried Chicken |
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KFOR |
UN Kosovo Force |
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KMI |
Knowledge Management Initiative |
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KMI |
Key Man Insurance |
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KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
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KPMG |
Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler |
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KSA |
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities |
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KSA |
Knowledge Skills or Abilities |
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KSAO |
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other |
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KSOP |
401(k) Employee Stock Option Plan |
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KYC |
Know-your-customer |
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L/C |
Letter of Credit |
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L/V |
Loan-to-value ratio |
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LA |
Labor Area |
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LAC |
Division for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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LAIA |
Latin American Integration Association |
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LAN |
Local Area Network |
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LAR |
Legislative Appropriations Request |
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LAUS |
Local Area Unemployment Statistics |
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LBB |
Legislative Budget Board |
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LBO |
Leveraged Buyout |
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LBO |
Limited Buyout |
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LC |
Letter of Credit |
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LC |
Limited Company |
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LCA |
Labor Condition Application |
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LCC |
Life Cycle Cost |
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LCD |
Labor Cost Distribution |
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LCL |
Less than Carload Lot |
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LCM |
Lower of Cost or Market |
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LDC |
Low Death Conflict |
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LDI |
Liability Driven Investment |
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LDP |
Last Day Paid |
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LDW |
Last Day Worked |
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LEAF |
Logistics, Engineering, Acquisition, and Finance |
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LEC |
Local Exchange Carrier |
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LEI |
Leading Economic Indicators |
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LEO |
Long-term Equity Options |
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LEPO |
Low Exercise Price Option |
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LF |
Labor Force |
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LFPR |
labor force participation rate |
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LFY |
Last Fiscal Year |
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LIBOR |
London interbank offering rate |
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LIFO |
Last In, First Out |
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LINTAS |
Levers International Advertising Services |
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LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
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LLDIE |
Limited life debt investment entity |
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llet |
Limited Liability Entity Tax |
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M-O-M |
Month over month |
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M.Ed |
Masters in Education |
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M.O.M. |
Middle of the month |
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M/M |
Month-over-month |
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MA |
Moving Average |
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MACC |
Mine Action Coordination Centre |
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MACRS |
Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (IRS) |
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MAD |
Mean Absolute Deviation |
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MAG |
Mine Advisory Group |
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MAGI |
Modified Adjusted Gross Income |
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MANOVA |
Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
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MAS |
Multiple-Award Schedule |
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MAT |
Minimum Alternative Tax |
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MBA |
Mortgage Bankers Association of America |
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MBA |
Masters of Business Administration |
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MBDA |
Minority Business Development Agency |
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MBE |
Mortgage banking enterprise |
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MBS |
mortgage backed security |
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MBTI |
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator |
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MC |
Market Capitalization |
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MCC |
Merchant category codes |
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MCC |
Mortgage Credit Certificate |
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MCFS |
Modern Carry Forward System |
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MCI |
Microwave Communications Incorporated |
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MDA |
Market development funds |
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MDB |
Multilateral Development Bank |
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MDGD |
Management Development and Governance Division |
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MDIB |
Minimum Distribution Incidental Benefit |
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MEC |
Modified Endowment Contract |
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MEC |
Minimum essential coverage |
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MER |
Management Expense Ratio |
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MEWA |
Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement |
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MF |
Medical Facilities |
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Mfst |
Manifest |
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MGIC |
Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Company |
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MHAEA |
Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act |
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MHPA |
Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 |
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MI |
Mortgage Insurance |
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MIGA |
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency |
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MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension |
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MINX |
Multimedia Information Network Exchange (system) |
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MIRR |
Modified Internal Rate of Return |
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MIS |
Management Information System (OSHA) |
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MLA |
Minimum Liquid Assets |
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MLD |
Market-linked deposit |
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MLM |
Multi-Level Marketing |
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MLP |
Master Limited Partnership |
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MLP |
Minimum lease payments |
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MLR |
Monthly Labor Review |
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MLR |
Medical Loss Ratio |
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MLS |
Multiple Listing Service |
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MLS |
Mass Layoff Statistics |
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MMC |
Money market certificate of deposit |
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MMDA |
Money Market Deposit Account |
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MNC |
Multinational Corporation |
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MOD |
Manufacturing on demand |
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MOF |
Ministry Of Finance |
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MOH |
Music On Hold |
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MOM |
Message Oriented Middleware |
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MOTO |
Mail order-telephone order |
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MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections) |
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MP3 |
Moving Pictures Experts Group 1 Audio Layer 3 |
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MPC |
Marginal Propensity to Consume |
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MPEG |
Moving Picture Experts Group (International Standards Organisation/International Electrotechnical Commission) |
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MPPAA |
Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act |
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MPS |
Marginal Propensity to Save |
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MQT |
Medicaid Qualifying Trust |
|
MRAM |
Magnetic Random Access Memory |
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MRD |
Minimum Required Distribution |
|
MRO |
Maintenance, repair, and overhaul |
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MRPS |
Mandatorily redeemable preferred stock |
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MRQ |
Most Recent Quarter |
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MSA |
Merit Salary Adjustment |
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MSA |
Medical Savings Account |
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MSA |
Metropolitan Statistical Area |
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MSB |
Money Service Businesses |
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MSDS |
Material Safety Data Sheets |
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MSER |
Multi-state Employer Registration |
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MSFW |
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker |
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MSI |
Multiple Streams of Income |
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MSN |
Microsoft Network |
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MSP |
Managed Service Provider |
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MSPA |
Migrant and Seasonal Agriculture Worker Protection Act |
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MSPR |
Medicare Secondary Payer Rules |
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MSRB |
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board |
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MSRP |
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price |
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MST |
Marketable Securities Tax |
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MTB |
Motor transportation broker |
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MTBF |
Mean Time Before Failure |
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MTC |
Multistate Tax Commission |
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MTD |
Month-to-date |
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MTF |
Medical Treatment Facility |
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mthly |
monthly |
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MTL |
Multi-Level Marketing |
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MTM |
Market to Market |
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MTNL |
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited |
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MTTR |
Mean Time To Recovery |
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MUD |
Multiple User Dungeon |
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Mupla |
Model Uniform Products Liability Act |
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Mvi |
Mini Vacations Incorporated |
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MVIC |
Market Value of Invested Capital |
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MW |
minimum weight |
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N/P |
Note payable |
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NAAEC |
North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation |
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NAALC |
North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation |
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NAAS |
Network as a Service |
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NAB |
Non-accrual basis |
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NABA |
National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. |
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NABARD |
National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development |
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NABE |
National Association for Business Economics |
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NAC |
National Acquisition Center |
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NACM |
National Association of Credit Management |
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NACUBO |
National Association of College & University Business Organizations |
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NAEA |
National Association of Enrolled Agents |
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NAFEP |
National Association of Financial and Estate Planning |
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NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
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NAFTA-TAA |
NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance |
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NAHB |
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOMEBUILDERS |
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NAIC |
National Association of Insurance Commissioners |
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NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
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NAM |
National Association of Manufacturers |
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NAO |
National Administrative Offices |
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NAP |
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program |
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NAPAT |
National Association for Private Annuity Trusts |
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NAR |
National Association of Realtors |
|
NASBA |
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy |
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NASDAQ |
National Association for Security Dealers and Automatic Quotation |
|
NASDR |
National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
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NATP |
National Association of Tax Professionals |
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NAV |
Net Asset Value |
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NAVA |
National Association for Variable Annuities |
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NAVPS |
Net Asset Value Per Share |
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NAWW |
National Average Weekly Wages |
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NBB |
New Belgium Brewery |
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NBER |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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NBIA |
National Business Incumbation Association |
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NC |
National Cemetery |
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NCA |
National Cemetery Administration |
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NCAER |
National Council for Applied Economic Research |
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NCAO |
National Cemetery Area Office |
|
NCCI |
National Council on Compensation Insurance |
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NCCUSL |
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws |
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NCO |
Net chargeoffs |
|
NCOA |
National Change Of Address |
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NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
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NCUA |
National Credit Union Administration |
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NCUSIF |
National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund |
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ND |
Network Director |
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NDA |
Non-Disclosure Agreement |
|
NDA |
Nondisclosure Agreement |
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NDNH |
National Directory New Hires |
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NE |
Non-Exempt |
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NEO |
New and Emerging Occupations |
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NFA |
Net Financial Assets |
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NFE |
Net Financial Expense |
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NFFE |
Nonfinancial foreign entity |
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NFI |
Net Financial Income |
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NFIB |
National Federation of Independent Business |
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NFIP |
National Flood Insurance Program |
|
NFO |
Net Financial Obligations |
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NFTC |
National Foreign Trade Council, Inc. |
|
NGLS |
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service |
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NGO |
Non-governmental organization. (Red Cross/Crescent, Doctors without Borders, etc.) |
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NHCE |
Non-Highly Compensated Employee |
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NI |
Net Income |
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NIB |
New In the Box |
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NIBCL |
Non-interest bearing current liabilities |
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NIC |
Newly Industrialized Countires |
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NIH |
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH |
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NIOSH |
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's |
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NIPA |
National income and product accounts |
|
NL |
No-Load |
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NLRA |
National Labor Relations Act |
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NLRB |
National Labor Relations Board |
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NMFC |
National Motor Freight Classification |
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NMHPA |
Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act |
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NMS |
Normal Market Size |
|
NNN |
Net Net Net |
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NNN |
Triple Net (Lease) |
|
NNTP |
Network News Transport Protocol (ATM) |
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NOA |
Net Operating Assets |
|
NOC |
Net Operating Capital |
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NOI |
Net Operating Income |
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NOIDA |
New Okhla Industrial Development Authority |
|
NOL |
Net Operating Loss |
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NOLD |
Net Operating Loss Deduction |
|
NOPAT |
Net Operating Profit After Tax |
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NOW |
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal |
|
NPA |
National Plans of Action |
|
NPA |
Non-Performing Assets |
|
NPEP |
National Poverty Eradication Plan |
|
NPL |
Nonperforming loan |
|
NPT |
Non-Proliferation Treaty |
|
NPV |
Net Present Value {economics} |
|
NPW |
Net Present Worth |
|
NQDC |
Nonqualified deferred compensation |
|
NQPS |
Nonqualified preferred stock |
|
NR |
Not Rated |
|
NRA |
Normal Retirement Age |
|
NRA |
Non-Resident Alien |
|
NRD |
Normal Retirement Date |
|
NRE |
Net realizable equity |
|
NRET |
Non-Resident Withholding Tax |
|
NRF |
National Retail Federation |
|
NRI |
Net Rising Index |
|
NRI |
Net Revenue Interest |
|
NRMLA |
National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association |
|
NRV |
Net recoverable value |
|
NSA |
National Society of Accountants |
|
NSA |
Not Seasonally Adjusted |
|
NSA |
National Safety Associates |
|
NSBA |
National Small Business Association |
|
NSC |
National Security Council |
|
NSDL |
National Securities Depository Limited |
|
NSF |
Not Sufficient Funds |
|
NST |
National Sales Tax |
|
NSTA |
National Securities Trade Association |
|
NSTP |
National Society of Tax Professionals |
|
NSX |
National Stock Exchange |
|
NT |
Near-Term |
|
NTFO |
Nationwide Tax Forums Online |
|
NTIS |
National Technical Information Service Technology Administration |
|
NTU |
National Taxpayer's Union |
|
NUA |
Net Unrealized Appreciation |
|
NUSS |
Nuclear Safety Standards |
|
NVC |
National Veterans Conference |
|
NVCA |
National Venture Captial Association |
|
NVI |
Negative Volume Index |
|
NVSBC |
National Veterans Small Business Conference |
|
NVSBE |
National Veterans Small Business Engagement |
|
NYMEX |
New York Metal Exchange |
|
NYSE |
New York Stock Exchange |
|
O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
|
O*Net |
Occupational Information Network |
|
O/S |
Outstanding |
|
OA |
Operating Assets |
|
OA&L |
Office of Acquisition and Logistics |
|
OALC |
Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction |
|
OAO |
Office of Acquisition Operations |
|
OAR |
Overall Rate Of Return |
|
OAS |
Option Adjusted Spread |
|
OASDHI |
Old Age, Survivors, Disability and Health Insurance Act |
|
OASDHI |
Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance |
|
OASDI |
Old Age and Survivors Disability Insurance |
|
OASDI |
Old Age Survivors Disability Insurance |
|
OASG |
Office of the Assistant Secretary-General |
|
OASI |
Old Age Survivors Insurance |
|
OB |
Office of Budget |
|
OC |
Opportunity Cost |
|
OCBOA |
Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting |
|
OCC |
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
|
OCF |
Operating Cash Flow |
|
OCHA |
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
|
OCLA |
Office of Congressional Legislative Affairs |
|
OCP |
Overland Common Point |
|
OCR |
Overall Capitalization Rate |
|
OD |
Organizational Development |
|
ODA |
Official Development Assistance |
|
ODCCP |
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention |
|
ODCF |
Owner's Discretionary Cash Flow |
|
ODDS |
Online Data Delivery System |
|
ODF |
OpenDocument Format |
|
ODPR |
Office for Displaced Persons and Refugees |
|
ODS |
Office of Develoment Studies |
|
OE |
Operating Expense |
|
OEBS |
Office of Employee Benefits Security |
|
OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
|
OEL |
Offshore Employee Leasing |
|
OER |
Operation Expense Ratio |
|
OER |
Owner's equivalent rent |
|
OES |
Occupational Employment Statistics |
|
OF |
Office of Facilities |
|
OFCCP |
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs |
|
OGC |
Office of the General Counsel |
|
OHCA |
Organized Health Care Arrangement |
|
Ohchr |
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
|
OHR |
Office of Human Resources |
|
OHRM |
Office of Human Resources Management |
|
OI |
Operating Income |
|
OI&T |
Office of Information and Technology |
|
OIBITDA |
Operating Income Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization |
|
OID |
Original Issue Discount |
|
OIOS |
Office of Internal Oversight Services |
|
OIP |
Office of the Iraq Programme |
|
OIS |
Occupations Information System |
|
OIS |
Overnight Index Swaps |
|
OJT |
On the Job Training |
|
OL |
Operating Liabilities |
|
OLA |
Office of Legal Affairs |
|
OM |
Options Market |
|
OMB |
Office of Management and Budget (U.S.) |
|
OOB |
OOS out of business |
|
OOH |
Occupational Outlook Handbook |
|
OP |
Order Point |
|
OPM |
Office of Personnel Management |
|
OPR |
Other People's Resources |
|
OPT |
Other People's Time |
|
OR |
Operating revenue |
|
OR |
Operations research |
|
ORD |
Office Of Research And Development (USEPA) |
|
OSBDU |
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization |
|
OSDBU |
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization |
|
OSDC |
Over/Short/Damage/Claims |
|
OSG |
Office of the Secretary-General |
|
OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970) |
|
OSS |
Open Source Software |
|
OSSG |
Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General |
|
OT |
Overtime |
|
OTB |
Open To Buy |
|
OTB |
Off-Track Betting |
|
OTC |
Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription) |
|
OTCEI |
Over the Counter Exchange of India (stock exchange) |
|
OTI |
OSHA Training Institute |
|
OTR |
Office of Thrift Supervision |
|
OTS |
Office of Thrift Supervision |
|
OUSG |
Office of the Under Secretary General |
|
P&G |
Proctor and Gamble |
|
P&I |
Principle and interest payment |
|
P&L |
Profit and Loss statement |
|
P&Z |
Planning & Zoning |
|
P.L. |
Public Law |
|
p.o.c. |
Paid outside of closing |
|
P/E |
Price-to-earnings ratio |
|
P2P |
Peer to Peer (as in music file sharing systems like KaZaA) |
|
PA |
Public Accountant |
|
PaaS |
Platform-as-a-Service |
|
PAHO |
Pan American Health Office/Regional Office for the Americas of the WHO |
|
PAM |
Pledged Account Mortgage |
|
PAQ |
Position Analysis Questionnaire |
|
PAR |
Public Accounting Report |
|
PAT |
Profit After Tax |
|
PATS |
Planning, Architecture, Technology and Services |
|
PBA |
Pending bank approval |
|
PBC |
Programme and Budget Committee |
|
Pbgc |
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation |
|
PBGC |
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
|
PBM |
Pharmacy Benefits Management (or Manager) |
|
PBO |
Projected Benefit Obligation |
|
PBSI |
Performance Based Salary Increase |
|
PBT |
Profit Before Tax |
|
PC |
Personal computer (host) |
|
PC |
Politically Correct |
|
PC |
Percent |
|
PCA |
Permanent Court of Arbitration |
|
PCAOB |
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board |
|
PCB |
Programme Coordination Board |
|
PCCM |
Percentage-of-completion/capitalized cost method |
|
PCE |
Pre-existing Condition Exclusion |
|
PCE |
Private Commercial Enterprise |
|
PCE |
Personal consumption expenditure; personal consumption expenditure deflator |
|
PCFRC |
Private Company Financial Reporting Committee |
|
PCI |
Per Capita Income |
|
PCM |
Percentage-of-completion method |
|
PCNICC |
Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court |
|
PCPB |
Post-Conflict Peace-Building |
|
PCS |
Post-contract customer support |
|
PD |
Paid |
|
PD |
Position Description |
|
PD |
Procurement Division |
|
PDA |
Pregnancy Discrimination Act |
|
PDA |
Personal Data Assistant |
|
PDA |
Payday Advance Loan |
|
PDA |
Public Displays of Affection |
|
PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
|
PDF |
Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat) |
|
PDM |
Program Decision Maker |
|
PDM |
Product Data Management |
|
PDQ |
Position Description Questionnaire |
|
PE |
Pass-through entity |
|
PE |
Printer Error |
|
PE |
Price to Earnings Ratio |
|
PE |
Private Equity |
|
PE |
Price-earnings ratio |
|
PEC |
Potential earnings converted |
|
PEG |
Price to Earnings Growth |
|
PEO |
Professional Employer Organization |
|
PEP |
Personal Exemption Phaseout |
|
PEPPRA |
Public Employee Pension Plan. Reporting and Accountability Act |
|
PERAB |
President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board |
|
PERC |
Premiums, earnings and reasonable charges |
|
Perl |
Practical Extraction and Report Language |
|
PERT |
Program Evaluation and Review Technique |
|
PFA |
Platform for Action |
|
PFA |
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act |
|
PFD |
Preferred |
|
PFK |
Pay-for-knowledge-and-skills plans |
|
PFR |
Portable Font Resource |
|
PFS |
Personal Financial Specialist |
|
PGI |
Potential Gross Income |
|
PGP |
Pretty Good Privacy (encryption) |
|
PH.D. |
Doctorate Of Philosophy |
|
PHC |
Personal Holding Company |
|
PHI |
Protected Health Information |
|
PHP |
PHP Hypertext Processor |
|
PHR |
Professional in Human Resources Certification |
|
PIA |
Primary Insurance Amount |
|
PIC |
Prior Informed Consent |
|
PIK |
Payment in Kind |
|
PILOT |
Payment In Lieu Of Taxes |
|
PIM |
Product Information Management |
|
PING |
Pocket Internet Gopher |
|
PIP |
Peace Implementation Programme |
|
PIP |
Performance Improvement Plan |
|
PIPE |
Public investment in private equity |
|
PIRG |
Public Interest Research Group |
|
PITI |
Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance |
|
PIU |
Public Inquiries Unit |
|
PJ |
Purchases journal |
|
PKO |
Peace-Keeping Operation |
|
PL |
Profit and Loss |
|
PL/PD |
Personal liability/property damage |
|
PLM |
Product Lifecycle Management |
|
PLR |
Private Letter Ruling |
|
PLS |
Please |
|
PM |
Program Manager |
|
PM |
Performance Management |
|
PM |
Profit Margin |
|
PM |
Project Manager |
|
PM PAR |
Program Management Policy, Assessment, and Reporting |
|
PMI |
Private Mortgage Insurance |
|
PMSA |
Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area |
|
PMV |
Private Market Value |
|
PNG |
Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension) |
|
PnP |
Plug aNd Play |
|
PO |
Purchase Order |
|
POA |
Power Of Attorney |
|
POB |
Public Oversights Board |
|
POC |
Proof of Claim |
|
POC |
Pacific Operations Centre |
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POCs |
Points of Contact |
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POD |
Professional & Organizational Development |
|
POD |
Proof Of Delivery |
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POD |
Payable on Death |
|
POE |
Point of Entry |
|
POP |
Point Of Presence (Internet) |
|
POP |
Point-of-purchase |
|
POP |
Premium-Only Plan |
|
POP |
Point Of Purchase |
|
POP |
Public Offering Price |
|
POP |
Premium Only Plan |
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POPIN |
United Nations Population Information Network |
|
POQ |
Periodic Order Quantity |
|
POS |
Point-of-sale |
|
POS |
Point Of Sale.Retail term, being the physical point at which products are displayed on shelves or paid for at the checkout, as in the EPOS acronym. |
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POS |
Point of Service Plan |
|
PPA |
Pension Protection Act of 1987 |
|
PPA |
Paperwork Reduction Act |
|
PPBA |
Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts |
|
PPBD |
Programme Planning and Budget Division |
|
PPE |
Property, Plant and Equipment |
|
PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment |
|
PPI |
Producer Price Index |
|
PPI |
Division for Planning and Public Information |
|
PPIP |
Public-Private Investment Program |
|
PPO |
Preferred provider organization |
|
PR |
Public Relations |
|
PRA |
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 |
|
PRC |
Peer Review Committee |
|
PRI |
Primary Rate Interface (ISDN) |
|
PRP |
Potentially Responsible Party (Superfund) |
|
PRP |
Preferred Risk Policy |
|
PSA |
Public Service Announcement (radio/TV Term) |
|
PSC |
Personal Service Corporation |
|
PSI |
Performance Salary Increase |
|
PSR |
Presentence report |
|
PT |
Part-Time |
|
PTA |
Preferential Trade Arrangement |
|
PTAC |
Procurement Technical Assistance Center |
|
PTD |
Procurement and Transportation Division |
|
PTE |
Pass-Through Entity |
|
PTO |
Paid Time Off |
|
PTP |
Publicly Traded Partnership |
|
PTSD |
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome |
|
PUD |
Planned Unit Development |
|
PUT |
Persons Using Television |
|
PV |
Present Value |
|
PVFC |
Prepaid variable forward contract |
|
PVGO |
Present Value of Growth Opportunities |
|
PVT |
Persons Viewing Television |
|
PW |
present worth |
|
PWBA |
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration |
|
PWC |
Public Works Commission |
|
PWD |
Prevailing Wage Determination |
|
PY |
Prior Year |
|
PY |
Program Year |
|
Q |
Quarter |
|
Qa |
Center for Quality Assurance in International Education |
|
QAI |
Quality Assurance International |
|
QAIP |
Quality Assurance and Improvement Plan |
|
QANTAS |
Queensland and Northern Territory Ariel Service |
|
QBU |
Qualified Business Unit |
|
QC |
Quality Control |
|
QCEW |
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages |
|
QCR |
Quarterly Contributions Report |
|
QDRO |
Qualified Domestic Relations Order |
|
QE |
Quarter Ending |
|
QIE |
Domestically controlled qualified investment entity |
|
QJSA |
Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity |
|
QMAC |
Qualified Matching Contributions |
|
QMCSO |
Qualified Medical Child Support Order |
|
QME |
Qualified Medical Examiner |
|
QNEC |
Qualified nonelective contributions |
|
QoS |
Quality of Service |
|
QPAM |
Qualified Professional Asset Manager |
|
QPRT |
Qualified Personal Residence Trust |
|
QR |
Quality Review |
|
QR |
Quarterly Report |
|
QREC |
Quality Review Executive Committee |
|
QSC |
Quality, Service, Cleanliness (Ray Kroc's motto for McDonald's) |
|
QSF |
Qualified Settlement Fund |
|
QSPE |
Qualified special purpose entity |
|
QTd |
Qualified Total Distribution |
|
QTD |
Quarter-to-Date |
|
QTIP |
Qualified Terminable Interest Property |
|
QTY |
Quantity |
|
QWI |
Quarterly Workforce Indicators |
|
QWL |
Quality of Work Life |
|
R&C |
Reasonable and Customary |
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
R/E |
Real estate |
|
R/E |
Retained earnings |
|
RA |
Resident Alien |
|
RAID |
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
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RAM |
random-access memory |
|
RAM |
Reverse Annuity Mortgage |
|
RAN |
Revenue Anticipation Note |
|
RAP |
Regulatory Accounting Principles |
|
RAROC |
Risk-Adjusted Return On Capital |
|
RBM |
Roll Back Malaria |
|
RCN |
Replacement Cost New |
|
RCNLD |
Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation |
|
RCNYO |
United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office |
|
RDC |
Remote Deposit Capture |
|
RDMHQ |
Rapidly Deployable Mission Headquarters |
|
RE |
Residual Earnings |
|
REA |
Return on assets |
|
REA |
Retirement Equity Act |
|
REC |
Renewable Energy Certificate |
|
Reg. |
Regulation |
|
REI |
Recreational Equipment, Inc. |
|
REIT |
Real Estate Investment Trust |
|
RELP |
Real Estate Limited Partnership |
|
REMIC |
Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit |
|
REO |
Real Estate Owned |
|
REPO |
Repurchase Agreement |
|
RESPA |
Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act |
|
RET |
Retirement earnings test |
|
Rev. Proc. |
Revenue Procedure |
|
Rev. Rul. |
Revenue Ruling |
|
RFA |
Regulatory Flexibility Act (US) |
|
RFB |
Request For Bid |
|
RFC |
Request For Comment |
|
RFI |
Request For Information. Sales department shorthand. Special priority when use in conjunction with RFN (see below). |
|
RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
|
RFM |
Rcency, Frequency, Monetary Analysis |
|
RFP |
Request For Proposal |
|
RFPA |
Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 |
|
RFQ |
Request For Quote |
|
RFQ |
Request For Quotation |
|
ri |
Royalty Interest |
|
RIA |
Registered Investment Advisor |
|
RIC |
Regulated Investment Company |
|
RICO |
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 |
|
RIF |
Reduction In Force |
|
RIM |
Retail Inventory Method |
|
RIPA |
Retirement Income Policy Act |
|
RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
|
RJP |
Realistic Job Preview |
|
RMA |
Return Merchandise Authorization |
|
RMA |
Restricted management account |
|
RMBS |
Residential mortgage backed securities |
|
RMP |
Risk Management Plan |
|
RNFA |
Return On Net Financial Assets |
|
RO |
Regional Office |
|
Ro&ic |
Regional Office and Insurance Center |
|
RO/RL |
Rool on/roll off |
|
ROA |
Regional Office for Africa |
|
ROA |
Return on assets |
|
ROAE |
Return on Assets Employed |
|
ROC |
Rate of Change |
|
ROC |
Return on Capital |
|
ROCE |
Return On Capital Employed |
|
ROE |
Return On Equity |
|
ROFR |
Right of First Refusal (finance) |
|
ROG |
Receipt Of Goods |
|
ROGFA |
Return on Gross Fixed Assets |
|
ROI |
Return on Investment |
|
ROIC |
Return on Invested Capital |
|
ROLAC |
Regional Office for Latin America and the Carribean |
|
ROM |
Range Of Motion |
|
ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
|
RONA |
Return On Net Assets |
|
ROOA |
Return on Operating Assets |
|
ROP |
Run of Press |
|
ROR |
Return on Revenue |
|
ROS |
Return on Sales |
|
ROS |
Run Of Schedule |
|
ROTA |
Return On Total Assets |
|
ROTC |
Reserve Officer Training Corporation |
|
RoU |
Right of Use |
|
ROW |
Right-Of-Way |
|
RP |
Repurchase Agreement |
|
RPI |
Retail Price Index |
|
RPO |
Recruitment process outsourcing |
|
RR |
retention rate |
|
RR |
Revenue Ruling |
|
RRM |
Renegotiated-Rate Mortgage |
|
RRSP |
Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada; Roughly Equivalent To The IRA In The U.S.) |
|
RSA |
Rivest-Shamir-Adleman |
|
RSF |
rentable square feet |
|
RSI |
Relative Strength Indicator |
|
RTF |
Rich Text Format |
|
RTN |
Routing Transit Number |
|
RTO |
Reverse Take-Over |
|
RTW |
Return To Work |
|
RTW |
Right to Work |
|
RULPA |
Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act |
|
RWA |
Risk Weighted Asset |
|
S&L |
Savings and Loan |
|
S&OP |
Sales and Operations Planning |
|
S&P |
Standard & Poor's |
|
S&U |
Sales and use |
|
S.M.A.R.T |
Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely |
|
SA |
Seasonally Adjusted |
|
SAAR |
Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate |
|
SAAR |
Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate |
|
SaaS |
Software as a Service |
|
SAC |
Strategic Acquisition Center |
|
SALY |
Same As Last Year |
|
SAM |
Shared-Appreciation Mortgage |
|
sam |
System for Award Management |
|
SAMS |
Systemic Advocacy Management System |
|
SAN |
Storage Area Network |
|
SAR |
Stock Appreciation Right |
|
SAR |
Summary Annual Report |
|
SAR |
Suspicious Activity Report(ing) |
|
SARD |
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development |
|
SARSEP |
Salary Reduction Simplified Employee Pension Plan |
|
SAS |
Statement of Accounting Standards |
|
SAS |
Statement on Auditing Standards |
|
SAT |
Scholastic Aptitude Test |
|
SB |
Senate Bill |
|
Sb/sdb |
Small Business/Small Disadvantaged Business |
|
sba |
Small Business Administrations |
|
SBAP |
Small Business Assistance Program |
|
SBBA |
Sales and Buy-Back Agreement |
|
SBC |
Southwestern Bell Corporation |
|
sbc |
Summary of Benefits and Coverage |
|
SBD |
Small Disadvantaged Business |
|
SBI |
Site Build It |
|
SBIR |
Small Business Innovation and Research |
|
SBJPA |
Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 |
|
SBL |
Small Business Liaisons |
|
SBLC |
Standby Letter of Credit |
|
SBLC |
Small Business Legislative Council |
|
SBLF |
Small Business Lending Fund |
|
SBLI |
Savings Bank Life Insurance |
|
SBO |
Small Business Ombudsman |
|
SBO |
Small Business Owner |
|
SBRB |
Small Business Research Board |
|
SBU |
Strategic Business Units |
|
SC |
Security Council |
|
SC |
Securities Commission |
|
SCA |
Service Contract Act |
|
SCIN |
Self-canceling installment note |
|
SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
|
SCORE |
Service Corps Of Retired Executives |
|
SCP |
Sustainable Cities Programme |
|
SD |
Standard Deviation |
|
SDA |
Self-directed brokerage account |
|
SDB |
Small Disadvantaged Business |
|
sdc |
System Development Center |
|
SDCF |
Sellers Discretionary Cash Flow |
|
SDD |
Software Design and Development |
|
SDE |
Service Delivery and Engineering |
|
SDI |
State Disability Insurance |
|
SDNP |
Sustainable Development Networking Programme |
|
SDR |
Special Drawing Rights |
|
SDVOB |
Service-disabled veteran owned business |
|
SDVOSB |
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business |
|
SE |
Salaried Exempt |
|
SE |
Self Employed |
|
SE&I |
Software Engineering & Integration |
|
SEA |
Securities Exchange Act |
|
SEAROWHO |
Regional Office for South-East Asia Region |
|
SEBI |
Securities Exchange Board of India |
|
SEC |
Securities and Exchange Commission (US) |
|
SECA |
Self-Employment Contributions Act |
|
Secl |
Secretarial |
|
SEDR |
Systems Engineering and Design Review |
|
SEES |
Survey Evaluation Exam System |
|
SEI |
Software Engineering and Integration |
|
SEM |
Search Engine Marketing |
|
SEM |
Shared-Equity Mortgage |
|
SEO |
Search Engine Optimizer |
|
SEP |
Simplified Employee Pension |
|
SEPA |
Single Euro Payments Area |
|
SEPED |
Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division |
|
SEPG |
Software Engineering Process Group |
|
SEPHA |
Special Emergency Programme for the Horn of Africa |
|
SEPPAA |
Single Employer Pension Plan Amendments Act |
|
SERP |
Systemwide Electronic Research Program |
|
SERP |
Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan |
|
SESA |
State Employment Security Agency |
|
SFAS |
Statements of Financial Accounting Standards |
|
SFH |
Single Family Home |
|
SFI |
Six-Figure Income |
|
SFO |
Solicitatio for offers |
|
SFOR |
Stabilization Force |
|
SG&A |
Selling, general, and administrative expenses |
|
SGA |
Substantial Gainful Activity |
|
SGLI |
Servicemember Group Life Insurance |
|
sgml |
Standard Generalised Markup Language |
|
SHD |
Sustainable Human Development |
|
SHOP |
Small Business Health Options Program |
|
shrm |
Society for Human Resource Management's |
|
SIA |
Securities Industry Act of 1983 |
|
SIAP |
Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific |
|
SIB |
Securities and Investment Board |
|
SIC |
Standard industrial clssification |
|
SIC |
Standard Industrial Classification (Code) |
|
SIFMA |
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association |
|
SIGHTWHO |
Summary Information on Global Health Trends |
|
SIPA |
Securities Investment Protection Act |
|
SIPC |
Securities Investor Protection Corporation |
|
SITC |
Standard International Trade Classification |
|
SITW |
State income tax withholding |
|
SIU |
Sets In Use |
|
SIV |
Structured Investment Vehicle |
|
SJ |
Sales Journal |
|
SKU |
Stock Keeping Unit |
|
SLA |
Supplemental Lease Agreements |
|
SLA |
Share lending agreement |
|
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
|
SLE |
Single lease expense |
|
SLIP |
Serial Line Interface Protocol |
|
SLOB |
Separate Line of Business |
|
SLOB |
Separate lines of business |
|
Sls |
Sales |
|
Slsmn |
Salesman |
|
SM |
Service Mark |
|
SMA |
Separately Managed Account |
|
SMA |
Simple Moving Average |
|
SMB |
Small- to medium-sized business |
|
SME |
Small- to medium-sized entities |
|
SMEs |
Small- and medium-scale enterprises |
|
SMF/LDC |
Special Measures Fund for the Least Developed Countries |
|
SMI |
Supplemental Medical Insurance (US Medicare Part B) |
|
SMLLC |
Single Member Limited Liability Company |
|
SMM |
Summary of material modifications |
|
smp |
Special Multiperil Policy |
|
SMSA |
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area |
|
SMT |
Senior Management Team |
|
SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
|
SNA |
System of National Accounts |
|
SNE |
Salaried Non-Exempt |
|
SNF |
Skilled Nursing Facility |
|
SNT |
Supplemental Needs Trust |
|
SOA |
Service-Oriented Architecture |
|
SOBO |
Small Office Business Office |
|
SOC |
Standard Occupational Classification |
|
SOHO |
Small Office Home Office |
|
SOHO |
Small Office/Home Office. Acronym expression for the 'virtual office' environment and characteristics found in self-employed and small businesses, that are increasingly prevalent in the modern business age. |
|
SOIR |
Schaeffer Open Interest Ratio |
|
SOL |
Statute of Limitations |
|
SOP |
Statement Of Position |
|
SOPAC |
South Pacific group of countries |
|
SOS |
Switched On Schoolhouse |
|
SOS |
Sound On Sound |
|
SOV |
Share Of Voice |
|
SOX |
Sarbanes-Oxley |
|
SOYD |
Sum-of-the-years-digits |
|
SP |
Strategic Plan |
|
SPAC |
Special-purpose acquisition company |
|
SPD |
Division for Special Programmes Development |
|
SPD |
Summary Plan Description |
|
SPDC |
Special Political and Decolonization Committee |
|
SPE |
Senior Procurement Executive |
|
SPE |
Special Purpose Entity |
|
SPFS |
Special Programme for Food Security |
|
SPHR |
Senior Professional Human Resources |
|
SPV |
Special Purpose Vehicle (sometimes Single Purpose Vehicle) |
|
SPX |
Standard and Poor’s Index |
|
SQA |
Software Quality Assurance |
|
SR |
Systems Redesign |
|
SRA |
Supplemental Retirement Annuity |
|
SRAM |
Static Random Access Memory (ess-ram) |
|
SRDC |
Subregional Development Centre |
|
SRM |
Supplier Relationship Management |
|
sro |
See Self-Regulatory Organization |
|
SRO |
Self Regulatory Organization |
|
SROI |
Subsequent Report of Injury |
|
SRPM |
Stated Redemption Price at Maturity |
|
SRSG |
Special Representative of the Secretary-General |
|
SS |
Social Security |
|
SS |
Safety Stock |
|
SSA |
Social Security Administration |
|
SSARS |
Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services |
|
SSB |
Securities Supervisory Board |
|
SSBCI |
State Small Business Credit Initiative |
|
SSBIC |
Specialized Small Business Investment Company |
|
SSD |
Social Security Disability |
|
ssd |
Specialist Services Division |
|
SSDI |
Social Security Disability Insurance |
|
SSDI |
Social Security Disability Indemnity |
|
SSI |
Supplemental Security Income |
|
SSM |
Software Service Manager |
|
SSN |
Social Security Number |
|
SSNVS |
Social Security Number Verification System |
|
SSOP |
Second Surgical Opinion Program |
|
SST |
Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement |
|
SSTP |
Streamlined Sales Tax Project |
|
SSUTA |
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement |
|
SSVS |
Statement on Standards for Valuation Services |
|
ST |
Short-Term |
|
STAR |
Satellite Television Asian Region, Ltd. |
|
STAT |
Statistical Division |
|
STCG |
Short-Term Capital Gain |
|
STD |
Short-term Insurance |
|
STD |
Short-term disability |
|
STD |
Standard |
|
STF |
Summary Tape File |
|
STIP |
Short-Term Industry Projections |
|
STOLI |
Stranger-originated life insurance |
|
STP |
Software Test Plan |
|
STR |
Software Test Report |
|
Stsfctn |
Satisfaction |
|
STTR |
Small Business Technology Transfer |
|
STW |
School-To-Work |
|
SUA |
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation |
|
SUB |
Supplemental Unemployment Benefit |
|
SUTA |
State Unemployment Tax Act |
|
SUTCDC |
Special Unit for Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries |
|
SV |
Salvage value |
|
Svngs |
Savings |
|
SWA |
State Workforce Agencies |
|
SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats |
|
SWT |
State witholding tax |
|
SYD |
Sum-of-the-years-digits |
|
SYSTEM |
Save YourSelf Time, Engergy, and Money (as reported by www.just15minutes.com) |
|
T&C |
Terms & Conditions |
|
T&D |
Training and Development |
|
T&E |
Travel & Entertainment |
|
T/B |
Trial balance |
|
ta |
Technical Advisers |
|
TA |
Technology Assessment |
|
TAA |
Trade Adjustment Act |
|
TAB |
Tax Anticipation Bill |
|
TAC |
Technology Assessment Committee |
|
tac |
Technology Acquisition Center |
|
TALF |
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility |
|
TAM |
Television Audience Measurement |
|
TAM |
Technical Advice Memorandum |
|
TAMRA |
Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 |
|
TAN |
Tax Anticipation Note |
|
TARP |
Troubled Assets Relief Program |
|
tat |
Total asset turnover |
|
TBC |
To Be Contested |
|
TBD |
To Be Determined |
|
TC |
Trusteeship Council (UN) |
|
TCBY |
The Country's Best Yogurt |
|
TCDC |
Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries |
|
TCE |
Tangible Common Equity |
|
TCN |
Third Country National |
|
TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
|
tcoe |
Total Cost of Equity |
|
TCPC |
Technical Committee for Programme and Coordination |
|
TDA |
Tax Deferred Annuity |
|
TDB |
Trade and Development Board |
|
TDB |
Temporary Disability Benefits |
|
TDC |
Total Direct Compensation |
|
TDI |
Temporary Disability Insurance |
|
TEA |
Technology-enabled auditing |
|
tea |
Transportation Efficiency Act |
|
TEFRA |
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1985 |
|
TER |
Total Expense Ratio |
|
TESSA |
Tax-Exempt Special Savings Account |
|
TEUC |
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation |
|
TEV |
Total Enterprise Value |
|
THX |
Thanks |
|
TIC |
Tenant In Common |
|
TIF |
Tax Increment Financing |
|
TIFF |
Tagged Interface File Format |
|
TIL |
Truth in Lending |
|
TILA |
Truth In Lending Act |
|
TIN |
Taxpayer Identification Number |
|
TIP |
Transportation Improvement Program |
|
TIPS |
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities |
|
TL |
Truckload |
|
tl |
Time & Labor |
|
TM |
Trademark |
|
TN |
Temporary Visa |
|
TOD |
Transfer on death |
|
toe |
Time is of the essence |
|
TOFC |
Trailer On Flat Car |
|
TOKTEN |
Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals |
|
TOM |
Traded Options Market |
|
TP |
Technical Proposal |
|
TPA |
Technical Practice Aide |
|
TPD |
Third-party designee |
|
TPD |
Temporary Partial Disability |
|
TPL |
Third-Party Liability |
|
TPRB |
Trade Policy Review Body |
|
TPS |
Transaction processing services |
|
TQM |
Total Quality Management |
|
TRA |
Tax Reform Act |
|
TRASOP |
Tax Reduction Act ESOP |
|
TRD |
Trade Relations Division |
|
TRD |
Transfer of Development |
|
TRIPS |
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectuel Property Rights |
|
Trnsfr |
Transfer |
|
TRO |
Temporary Restraining Order |
|
Trups |
Trust Preferred Securities |
|
TSA |
Tax-sheltered annuity |
|
TSB |
Targeted Small Business |
|
TSP |
Thrift Savings Plan |
|
TSR |
Tactical Studies Rules |
|
TSR |
Total Shareholder Return |
|
TSR |
Terminate and Stay Resident [software program] |
|
TTD |
Temporary Total Disability |
|
TTL |
Total |
|
TTL |
Total Linhas Aéreas |
|
TTM |
Trailing Twelve Months |
|
TUR |
Total Unemployment Rates |
|
TVI |
Trade Value Index |
|
TVM |
Time Value of Money |
|
twa |
Time Weighted Averages |
|
Twain |
Toolkit Without an Interesting Name |
|
U&C |
Usual and customary |
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U.S. DOJ |
United States Department of Justice |
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U.S. DOL |
United States Department of Labor |
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U.S.C. |
United States Code |
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UAW |
United Auto Workers |
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ub |
Unsafe Buildings |
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UBTI |
Unrelated Business Taxable Income |
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UC |
Unemployment Compensation |
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UCC |
Uniform Commercial Code |
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UCI |
Unemployment Compensation Insurance |
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UCR |
Usual, customary, and reasonable |
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UCR |
Usual, Customary and Reasonable Fees |
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UDITPA |
Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act |
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UDR |
Unused development rights |
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UFW |
United Farm Workers |
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UGMA |
Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (largely replaced by UTMA) |
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UI |
User Interface |
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UI |
Unemployment Insurance |
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UIC |
Unemployment Insurance Commission (Canada, archaic) |
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UIM |
Underinsured Motorist |
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UL |
Universal Life |
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ULC |
Uniform Law Commissioners |
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ULP |
Unfair Labour Practices |
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ULPA |
Uniform Limited Partnership Act |
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UM |
Uninsured Motorist |
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UMB |
United Missouri Bank |
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umts |
Universal Mobile Telephone System |
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un |
United Narions |
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UN-NADAF |
United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s |
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UNA |
United Nations Association |
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UNAFRI |
United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders |
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UNAIDS |
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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UNAMA |
United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan |
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UNAMIC |
United Nations Advance Mission In Cambodia |
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UNAMIR |
United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda |
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UNAMSIL |
United Nations Mission In Sierra Leone |
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UNARDOL |
United Nations Assistance for the Reconstruction and Development of Lebanon |
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UNASOG |
United Nations Aouzou Strip Observer Group |
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UNAT |
United Nations Administrative Tribunal |
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UNAVEM |
United Nations Angola Verification Mission |
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UNCA |
United Nations Correspondents Association |
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UNCC |
United Nations Compensation Commission |
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UNCCD |
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification |
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UNCCP |
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine |
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UNCDF |
United Nations Capital Development Fund |
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UNCED |
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
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UNCHS |
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements |
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UNCIP |
United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan |
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UNCITRAL |
United Nations Commission On International Trade Law |
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UNCIVPOL |
United Nations Civilian Police |
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UNCJIN |
United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network |
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UNCPCJP |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme |
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UNCRD |
United Nations Centre for Regional Development |
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UNCRO |
United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia |
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UNCSW |
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women |
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UNCT |
United Nations Country Team |
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UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
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UNDAF |
United Nations Development Assistance Framework |
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UNDAW |
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women |
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UNDC |
United Nations Disarmament Commission |
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Undcp |
United Nations International Drug Control Programme |
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UNDG |
United Nations Development Group |
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UNDHL |
United Nations Dag Hammarskjölds Library |
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UNDMT |
United Nations Disaster Management Team |
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UNDOC |
United Nations Documents Index |
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UNDOF |
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force |
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UNEF |
United Nations Emergency Force |
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UNEP |
United Nations Environment Program |
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UNEP-IE |
United Nations Environment Programme Industry and Environment Centre |
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UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
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UNFALD |
United Nations Field Administration and Logistics Division |
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UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
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UNFICYP |
United Nations Force in Cyprus |
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UNFIP |
United Nations Fund for International Partnerships |
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UNFPA |
United Nations Fund for Population Activities (see www.unfpa.org) |
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UNFSTD |
United Nations Fund for Science and Technology for Development |
|
UNGASS |
Special Session of the General Assembly |
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UNGCI |
United Nations Guards Contingent in Iraq |
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UNGEGN |
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names |
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UNGIWG |
United Nations Geographic Information Working Group |
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UNGOMAP |
United Nations Good Offices Mission In Afghanistan and Pakistan |
|
UNHCHR |
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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Unhcr |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program |
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UNHQ |
United Nations Headquarters |
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UNHSP |
United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
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UNIC |
United Nations Information Centre |
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UNICC |
United Nations International Computer Centre |
|
UNICEF |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
|
UNICPO |
United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs |
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UNICRI |
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute |
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UNIDIR |
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research |
|
UNIDO |
United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
|
UNIFIL |
United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon |
|
UNIIMOG |
United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group |
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UNIKOM |
United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission |
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UNIPOM |
United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission |
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UNIPTF |
United Nations International Police Task Force |
|
UNIS |
United Nations Information Service |
|
UNIS |
United Nations International School |
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UNISPAL |
United Nations Information System on the question of Palestine |
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UNISTE |
United Nations International Symposium on Trade Efficiency |
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UNITAR |
United Nations Institute for Training and Research |
|
UNITeS |
United Nations Information Technology Corps of Volunteers |
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UNJSPB |
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board |
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UNJSPF |
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund |
|
UNL |
Universal Networking Language |
|
UNLB |
United Nations Logistic Base |
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UNLTC |
United Nations Military Liaison Team in Cambodia |
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Unltd |
Unlimited |
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UNMA |
United Nations Mission in Angola |
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UNMACC |
United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre |
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UNMAS |
United Nations Mine Action Service |
|
UNMEE |
United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea |
|
UNMIBH |
United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
|
UNMIH |
United Nations Mission In Haiti |
|
UNMIK |
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo |
|
UNMISET |
United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor |
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unmo |
United Nations Military Observers |
|
UNMOGIP |
United Nations Military Observer Group In India & Pakistan |
|
UNMOP |
United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka |
|
UNMOT |
United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan |
|
UNMOVIC |
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission |
|
UNOB |
United Nations Office in Burundi |
|
UNOCHA |
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
|
UNOG |
United Nations Office at Geneva |
|
UNOGBIS |
United Nations Peace-Building Support Office in Guinea-Bissau |
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UNOGIL |
United Nations Observation Group In Lebanon |
|
UNOHCI |
United Nations Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq |
|
UNOL |
United Nations Peace-Building Support Office in Liberia |
|
UNOMA |
United Nations Observer Mission in Angola |
|
UNOMIG |
United Nations Observer Mission In Georgia |
|
UNOMIL |
United Nations Observer Mission In Liberia |
|
UNOMSA |
United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa |
|
UNOMSIL |
United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone |
|
UNOMUR |
United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda |
|
UNON |
United Nations Office at Nairobi |
|
UNOPS |
United Nations Office for Project Services |
|
UNOSOM |
United Nations Operation in Somalia |
|
UNOV |
United Nations Office at Vienna |
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UNOVER |
United Nations Observer Mission to Verify the Referendum in Eritrea |
|
UNPA |
United Nations Postal Administration |
|
UNPA |
United Nations Protected Area |
|
UNPAAERD |
United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development |
|
UNPD |
United Nations Procurement Division |
|
UNPD |
United Nations Population Division |
|
UNPF |
United Nations Peace-Force |
|
UNPF-HQ |
United Nations Peace-Force Headquarters |
|
UNPOB |
United Nations Political Office in Bougainville |
|
UNPOS |
United Nations Political Office for Somalia |
|
UNPROFOR |
United Nations Protection Force (in Former Yugoslavia) |
|
UNRCPDA |
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa |
|
UNREO |
United Nations Rwanda Emergency Office |
|
UNRFNRE |
United Nations Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration |
|
UNRISD |
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development |
|
UNROAP |
United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific |
|
UNROD |
United Nations Relief Operation in Dacca |
|
UNRRA |
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency |
|
UNRWA |
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
|
UNSC |
United Nations Staff College |
|
UNSC |
United Nations Security Council |
|
UNSCEAR |
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiations |
|
UNSCO |
Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East |
|
UNSCOM |
United Nations Special Commission for the Elimination of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction |
|
unsd |
United Nations Statistic Division |
|
UNSECOORD |
Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator |
|
UNSF |
United Nations Security Force in West New Guinea |
|
UNSIA |
United Nations System-wide Special Initiative on Africa |
|
UNSMA |
United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan |
|
UNSMIH |
United Nations Support Mission In Haiti |
|
UNSO |
United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office |
|
UNSSOD |
United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Disarmament |
|
UNTAC |
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
|
UNTACDA |
United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa |
|
UNTAES |
United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium |
|
UNTAET |
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor |
|
UNTAG |
United Nations Transition Assistance Group |
|
UNTEA |
United Nations Temporary Executive Authority |
|
UNTMIH |
United Nations Transitional Mission in Haiti |
|
UNTOP |
United Nations Tajikistan Office for Peace-Building |
|
UNTPDC |
United NationsTrade Point Development Centre |
|
UNTSO |
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization |
|
UNU |
United Nations University |
|
Unv |
United Nations Volunteers Programme |
|
UNVFVT |
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture |
|
UNYOM |
United Nations Yemen Observation Mission |
|
UNZAP |
United Nations Zambia Assistance Programme |
|
UPE |
Unreimbursed Partnership Expenses |
|
UPS |
United Parcel Service, Inc. |
|
UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
|
UR |
Unemployment Rate |
|
UR |
Utilization Review |
|
URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
|
URLA |
Uniform Residential Loan Application |
|
URO |
Utilization Review Organization |
|
usaa |
United Services Automobile Association's |
|
USCIS |
US Citizenship and Immigration Services |
|
USCIS |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service |
|
USD |
US Dollars |
|
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
|
USENET |
USEr NETwork |
|
USERRA |
Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act |
|
USF |
Usable Square Feet |
|
USG |
Under Secretary General |
|
USITC |
U.S. International Trade Commission |
|
USM |
Unlisted Securities Market |
|
USOA |
Uniform system of accounts |
|
USP |
Unique Selling Point |
|
USPAP |
Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice |
|
USPTO |
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
|
USRPHC |
U.S. real property hodling corporation |
|
USRPI |
U.S. real property interest |
|
USTC |
United States Tax Court |
|
UTC |
Uniform Trust Code |
|
UTD |
Under Trust Dated |
|
Utlztn |
Utilization |
|
UTMA |
Uniform Transfers to Minors Act |
|
VA |
Veterans Affairs |
|
VA |
Variable Annuity |
|
VA |
Veterans Administration |
|
VAAR |
Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition Regulation |
|
VACO |
VA Central Office |
|
VAGFE |
VA-owned Government Furnished Equipment |
|
Val. |
Value |
|
VAMC |
Va medical center |
|
vao |
Virtual Acquisition Office |
|
vat |
Value-added taxes |
|
VBA |
Veterans Benefit Administration |
|
VBIA |
Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 |
|
VBOP |
Veterans Business Outreach Centers |
|
VC |
Venture Capital |
|
VC |
Veterans Center |
|
VCL |
Vacancy and collection losses |
|
VDT |
Video Display Terminal |
|
VEBA |
Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association |
|
VEEP |
Village Employment and Environment Programme |
|
VERONICA |
Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index of Computer Archives |
|
VETS |
Veteran's Employment & Training Service |
|
VEVRA |
Vietnam-Era Veterans Readjustment Act |
|
VHA |
Veterans Health Administration's |
|
VIE |
Variable Interest Entity |
|
VIP |
Veteran Information Pages |
|
VISN |
Veterans Integrated Service Network |
|
VLI |
Variable Life Insurance |
|
VOB |
Veteran-Owned Business |
|
VOC-ED |
Vocational Education |
|
VOC-REHAB |
Vocational Rehabilitation |
|
vocc |
Vessel Operating Common Carriers |
|
VOPAN |
Voice Pitch Analysis |
|
VOSB |
Veteran-Owned Small Business |
|
VPFC |
Variable Prepaid Forward Contract |
|
VPN |
Virtual Private Network (ATM) |
|
vpt |
Volume Price Trend |
|
VRM |
Variable Rate Mortgage |
|
VRP |
Variable Rate Premium |
|
VSNL |
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited |
|
VSOE |
Vendor-Specific Objective Evidence |
|
VSOP |
Very Special Old Pale |
|
VUL |
Variable Universal Life |
|
VWAP |
Volume-weighted average price |
|
vwap |
Value Weighted Average Price |
|
VWPT |
Value Weighted Price Trading |
|
VWPX |
Volume Weighted Price Uncrossing |
|
VXML |
Voice eXtensible Markup Language |
|
W-A |
Weighted average |
|
W/C |
Working Capital |
|
W/O |
Without |
|
WAASE |
Division for Western Asia, Arab States and Europe |
|
WACC |
Weighted Average Cost Of Capital (accounting) |
|
WAI |
Wealth Added Index |
|
WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol |
|
WARN |
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 |
|
WARN |
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act W&M |
|
wbc |
Women Business Center |
|
WBG |
World Bank Group |
|
WC |
Working Capital |
|
WC |
Worker's Compensation |
|
WCB |
Workers Compensation Board |
|
WCC |
Working capital cycle |
|
WCC |
World Climate Conference |
|
WCDMP |
World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme |
|
WCEFA |
World Conference on Education for All |
|
WCP |
World Climate Programme (WMO/ICSU) |
|
WDC |
Workforce Development Center |
|
WDCD |
Intergovernmental Committee for the World Decade for Cultural Development |
|
WFC |
World Food Council |
|
WFUNA |
World Federation of UN Associations |
|
WGEID |
United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances |
|
WHA |
World Health Assembly |
|
WHCRA |
Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 |
|
WHD |
World Habitat Day |
|
WHO |
World Health Organization |
|
Whol. |
Wholesale |
|
WHYCOS |
World Hydrological Cycle Observing System |
|
WI |
Working Interest |
|
WIA |
Workforce Investment Act |
|
WIDER |
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research |
|
WIP |
Work in Process |
|
WIP |
Work In Progress (process) |
|
WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organization |
|
WKLY |
Weekly |
|
WML |
Wireless Markup Language |
|
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization (ICSU) |
|
WMU |
World Maritime University |
|
WOSB |
Woman-Owned Small Business |
|
WOTC |
Workforce Opportunity Tax Credit |
|
WPI |
Wholesale Price Index |
|
WPOA |
Wagner-Peyser Act |
|
WPP |
Wire and Plastic Products |
|
WPPDA |
Welfare and Pension Plan Disclosure Act |
|
WPRO |
Western Pacific Regional Office |
|
WRA |
Weighted Risk Assets |
|
WRAEA |
Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act |
|
WRC |
World Radiocommunication Conference |
|
Wrhse |
Warehouse |
|
Wrkr |
Worker |
|
Wrkshp |
Workshop |
|
Wrldwd |
Worldwide |
|
WST |
Waste Systems and Transportation |
|
WST |
Waste Science and Technology |
|
WST |
Waste Spare Time |
|
WT |
Warrant |
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