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Thursday, April 27, 2017

List of business and finance abbreviations-for General Knowledge


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
·         afaik. – As far as i know

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
·         BEP - Break Even Point

C

·         CAO  Chief Administrative 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
·         CDM  Change and Data Management
·         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
·         CPQ  Configure, Price, Quote
·         CPI  Consumer Price Index
·         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
·         CX  Customer Experience

D

·         DDA  Depletion Depreciation Amortization
·         dept. – Department
·         Dept - Department
·         DI  Dispatch information
·         Dir - Director
·         disc. – Discount
·         DMA  Direct market access
·         DR  Depositary receipt
·         DSP - Delivery service provider
·         DTP-Do this please
·         DVP - Delivery versus payment
·         DSO - Days Sales Outstanding

E

·         EACs  Export Assistance Centers
·         EAR  Effective annual rate
·         EAY  Effective Annual Yield
·         ECB  European Central Bank
·         EDI  Electronic Data Interchange
·         EFSM  European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism
·         EFTPOS  Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale
·         EPS  Earnings per share
·         EXP  Export
·         EOB  End Of the Business
·         EOD  End Of the Day
·         EOM  End Of Message
·         ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
·         ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
·         ETD - Estimated Time of Delivery
·         EMI - Equated Monthly Installment
·         EPC - Export Promotion Council
·         EXW - Ex Works , Ready at Warehouse

F

·         FAB - Feature Advantage Benefits
·         FDP  Finance Department
·         FOB  Freight On Board
·         FIFO  First In, First Out
·         FinMin  Finance Minister
·         Fin Min  Finance Minister
·         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
·         FYA- For Your Action
·         FTE- Full Time Equivalent

G

·         GAAP  Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
·         GAAS  Generally Accepted Audit Standards
·         GDP  Gross Domestic Product
·         GDR  Global depository receipt
·         GFCF  Gross fixed capital formation
·         GL  General Ledger
·         GMV  Gross Merchandise Volume
·         GP  Gross Profit
·         GPO  Group purchasing organization
·         GRN  Goods Receipt Note
·         GRNI - Goods Receipt Not Invoiced
·         GSV  Gross Sales Value
·         GVC  Global Value Chain

H

·         HR  Human Resources
·         HQ – Headquarters
·         HRD – Human Resource Development
·         HMRC - Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

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
·         IRS  Internal Revenue Service
·         ISIN  International Securities Identification Number
·         ISM  Institute of Supply Management
·         IYR  In Year Revenue

J

·         J – Journal
·         JIT - Just in time
·         JIS - Just in sequence
·         JST - Joint Supervisory Team

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.
·         KIBOR - Karachi Interbank Offered Rate
·         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
·         LIFO  Last In, First Out
·         LLC  Limited Liability Company
·         LME  London Metal Exchange
·         Ltd.  Limited Company

M

·         MBS  mortgage-backed security
·         mfg. – Manufacturing
·         MGMT - Management
·         MIC  Market Identifier Code
·         MoM - Month on Month / Month over Month
·         MOQ  Minimum Order Quantity
·         MOU - Memorandum Of Understanding
·         MPC  marginal propensity to consume
·         MRO  Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
·         MRP - Maximum Retail Price
·         MSOD  Monthly Statement of Select Operational Data
·         MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
·         MTD  Month-to-date
·         MWC  Managerial Working Capital

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
·         NIM  Net Interest Margin
·         NOA  Net Operating Assets
·         NOI  Net Operating Income
·         NOPAT  Net Operating Profit After Tax
·         NPL  Non-performing loan
·         NPV  Net Present Value
·         NTE - Not To Exceed
·         NYMEX  New York Mercantile Exchange
·         NYSE  New York Stock Exchange

O

·         OC  Opportunity Cost
·         OCF  Operating cash flow
·         OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
·         OIBDA - Operating Income Before Depreciation And Amortization
·         OPEX  Operational Expenditures
·         OTC  Over-the-counter (finance)

P

·         PA - Purchasing agent
·         PA - Promotional Activity
·         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
·         pip  Percentage in point
·         PMAC  Period Moving Average Cost
·         PO  Profit Objective or Purchase Order
·         POS  Point of sale
·         PP&E  Property, plant, and equipment
·         PPP  Public-private partnership
·         PPP  Purchasing power parity
·         PR  Purchase Requisition
·         PHEK  Planherstellungskosten (Product Planning cost)
·         PTD Project to Date

Q

·         QC  Quality control or Quality costs
·         QoQ - Quarter on quarter
·         q/q  Quarter on quarter
·         QTD  Quarter-to-date

R

·         RBI  Reserve Bank of India
·         RBA  Reserve Bank of Australia
·         RE  Retained Earnings
·         RFI  Request for Information
·         RFP  Request for Proposal
·         RFQ  Request for Quotation
·         RFX – Generic name for a Request for Information, Proposal or Quotation
·         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
·         SLA* -Service Level Agreement
·         SUA - Start Up Agreement

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
·         TQM- Total Quality Management
·         TOTW- Time Off for Time Worked
·         TTM- Trailing Twelve Months

U

·         USP – Unique Selling Proposition

V

·         VAD – Value-Added Distributor
·         VAT  Value-Added Tax
·         VAR – Value-Added Reseller
·         VC  Venture Capital
·         VaR – Value at Risk

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
·         WTO -World Trade Organization
·         WTD -Week-To-Date

X

Y

·         YTD  Year-to-date
·         YTG  Year-to-go
·         YOY  Year-over-year
·         YTC  Yet-To-Confirm
·         FYF  Full Year Forecast
·         1H  1st Half

Z

·         zcyc  Zero Coupon Yield Curve

·         ZOPA  Zone of Possible Agreement

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