List of business and finance abbreviations
This is a list of business and finance abbreviations.
A
- ADR – American Depositary Receipt
- AP – Accounts payable
- ARPU – Average revenue per user
- ASP – Average selling price
- ASAP – "As soon as possible"
- agcy. – Agency
- agt. – Agent
- asst. – Assistant
- a/c. – Account
B
- BAU – Business As Usual
- BRU – Business Recovery Unit
- B2B – Business-to-business
- B2C – Business to Consumer
- B2G – Business-to-government
- BUSI - Business
- bldg. – Building
C
- CAO – Chief Accounting Officer
- CAGR – Compound annual growth rate
- CAPEX – Capital Expenditure
- CAPM – Capital asset pricing model
- CBOE – Chicago Board Options Exchange
- CBOT – Chicago Board of Trade
- CDO – Collateralized debt obligation
- CDS – Credit default swap
- CEO – Chief executive officer
- COA – Chart of Account
- CFA – Chartered Financial Analyst
- CFD – Contract for difference
- CFC – Consumption of fixed capital
- CFCT – Cash Flow Cycle Time
- CFM – Certified Financial Manager
- CFO PEX – Capital Expenditures
- CFO – Chief financial officer
- CFS – Consolidated Financial Statement
- CIA – Certified Internal Auditor
- CIF – Cost Insurance With Freight
- CIMA – Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
- CIO – Chief Information Officer or Chief Investment Officer
- CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor
- CMA – Certified Management Accountant
- CMO – Chief Marketing Officer
- COB – Close of Business
- COGS – Cost of Goods Sold
- Corp. – Corporation
- COO – Chief Operating Officer
- CPA – Certified Public Accountant
- CPP – Certified Payroll Professional
- CPU - Cost per Unit
- CSI - Continual Service Improvement
- CSO – Chief Security Officer
- CSR - Corporate social responsibility
- CRM – Customer Relationship Management
- CVP – Cost Volume Profit
- C2B – Consumer-to-business
- CTO – Chief Technology Officer
- C&F – Cost With Freight
D
- DDA – Depletion Depreciation Amortization
- DI – Dispatch information
- disc. – Discount
- dept. – Department
- DMA – Direct market access
- DSP - Delivery service provider
E
- EACs — Export Assistance Centers
- EAR – Effective annual rate
- EAY – Effective Annual Yield
- EBIT – Earnings before interest and taxes
- EBITDA – Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
- ECB – European Central Bank
- EDI – Electronic Data Interchange
- EFTPOS – Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale
- EPS – Earnings per share
- EXP – Export
- EOB – End Of the Business
- EOD – End Of the Day
- ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
ETA- Estimated Time of Arrival ETD- Estimated Time of Delivery EMI- Equated Monthly Installment
F
- FAB - Feature Advantage Benefits
- FDP – Finance Department
- FOB – Freight On Board
- FIFO – First In, First Out
- FL – Financial leverage
- FOMC – Federal Open Market Committee
- FP&A – Financial Planning & Analysis
- FPO – Follow on public offer
- FIX – Financial Information Exchange
- FSA – Financial Services Authority
- FX – Foreign exchange market
- FYI- For Your Information
- FOC- Free Of Cost
G
- GAAP – Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- GAAS – Generally Accepted Audit Standards
- GDP – Gross Domestic Product
- GFCF – Gross fixed capital formation
- GRN – Goods Receipt Note
- GP – Gross Profit
- GPO – Group purchasing organization
- GL – General Ledger
- GSV – Gross Sales Value
H
- HR – Human Resources
- HQ – Headquarters
- HRD – Human Resource Development
I
- IAS – International Accounting Standards
- ICB – Industry Classification Benchmark
- ICRM – Innovative Customer Relationship Management
- IE – Interest expense
- IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standard
- ILCLP – IdentLogic Systems Customer Loyalty Program
- IMF – International Monetary Fund
- IMP – Import
- Inc. – Incorporated
- IPO – Initial Public Offering
- IR – Interest Rate - typically referring to an IR derivative product
- ISM – Institute of Supply Management
- IYR – In Year Revenue
J
- J – Journal
- JIT - Just in time
- JIS - Just in sequence
K
- K – Is used as an abbreviation for 1,000. For example $225K would be understood to mean $225,000, and $3.6K would be understood to mean $3,600. Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000.
- KPI – "Key Performance Indicators" refers to a type of performance measurement. An organization may use KPIs to evaluate its success, or to evaluate the success of a particular activity in which it is engaged.
- KYC – "Know Your Customer" refers to due diligence activities that financial institutions and other regulated companies must perform to ascertain relevant information.
L
- LBO – Leveraged Buyout
- LC – Letter of credit
- LIBOR – London Interbank Offered Rate
- LIFFE – London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
- LIFO – Last In, First Out
- LLC – Limited Liability Company
- LME – London Metal Exchange
- Ltd. – Limited Company
M
- MBS – mortgage-backed security
- MPC – marginal propensity to consume
- MTD – Month-to-date
- MOQ – Minimum Order Quantity
- MOU - Memorandum Of Understanding
- MRO – Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
- MSOD – Monthly Statement of Select Operational Data
- MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
- mfg. – Manufacturing
- MGMT - Management
- MoM - Month on Month / Month over Month
N
- NAV – Net asset value
- NCBO – No Change of Beneficial Ownership
- NCND – Non-Circumvent and Non-Disclosure
- NDA – Non-Disclosure Agreement
- NII – Net Interest Income
- NOA – Net Operating Assets
- NOI – Net Operating Income
- NOPAT – Net Operating Profit After Tax
- NPV – Net Present Value
- NIM – Net Interest Margin
- NTE - Not To Exceed
- NYMEX – New York Mercantile Exchange
- NYSE – New York Stock Exchange
O
- OC – Opportunity Cost
- OCF – Operating cash flow
- OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OIBDA - Operating Income Before Depreciation And Amortization
- OPEX – Operational Expenditures
- OTC – Over-the-counter (finance)
P
- PA - Purchasing agent
- PAT – Profit After Tax
- PBT – Profit Before Tax
- P/E – Price-to-earnings ratio
- PEG – Price-to-earnings growth ratio
- P&L – Profit and Loss
- PMAC – Period Moving Average Cost
- PO – Profit Objective or Purchase Order
- PP&E – Property, plant, and equipment
- PPP – Purchasing power parity
- PR – Purchase Requisition
- PHEK – Planherstellungskosten (Product Planning cost)
Q
- QC – Quality control or Quality costs
- QoQ - Quarter on quarter
- QTD – Quarter-to-date
R
- RE – Retained Earnings
- RFP – Request for Proposal
- ROA – Return on assets
- ROCE – Return On Capital Employed
- ROE – Return on Equity
- ROI – Return on Investment
- ROIC – Return on Invested Capital
- RONA – Return on net assets
- ROS – Return on Sales
- RR – Resource rent
RSP - Retail selling price
- R&D – Research and Development
S
- St – Sales, during time period t.
- S&OP - Sales and operations planning
- SAAS – Software-as-a-Service
- SCM – Supply Chain Management
- SCBA – Social Cost Benefit Analysis
- SEBI – Securities and Exchange Board of India
- SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission
- SG&A – Sales, General, and Administrative expenses
- SIR – Stores Issuance Requisition
- SIOP – Sales Inventory and Operations Plan
- SIV – Structured investment vehicle
- SKU – Stock keeping unit
- SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
- SOHO – Small Office/Home Office
- SOX – Sarbanes-Oxley
- SROI - Social return on investment
- SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
- SOW - Statement Of Work
T
- TCO – Total Cost of Ownership
- TCV – Total Contract Value
- TSR – Total Shareholder Return
- TB – Transaction Banking
- TBD – To Be Defined
- TBC - To Be Completed
U
- USP – Unique Selling Propositon
V
- VAD – Value-Added Distributor
- VAT – Value-Added Tax
- VAR – Value-Added Reseller
W
- WACC – Weighted average cost of capital
- WC – Working capital
- WFH – Work From Home
- wk – week
- wrk – work
- wo – work order
- WIGs – Wildly Important Goals
- wasp - weighted average selling price
- WLL - With Limited Liability
- w.r.t - With Respect To
- WTI – West Texas Intermediate
- WVN - Withdraw Voucher Note
- WHT - Withholding Tax
Y
- YTD – Year-to-date
- YTG – Year-to-go
- YOY – Year-Over-Year
Z
- zcyc – Zero Coupon Yield Curve
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