Accounting Terms
- CPA:
- A Certified Public Accountant or CPA, is a member of an officially accredited professional body of accountants.
- EPS:
- Earnings per share, or EPS, is a company’s profit divided by its number of common outstanding shares.
- Fraud:
- Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
- GAAP:
- Generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP for short, is a framework of accounting standards, rules and procedures defined by the professional accounting industry, which has been adopted by nearly all publicly traded U.S. companies.
- Goodwill:
- The cost of an acquired company in excess of the fair value of net assets, including identifiable intangible assets, at the time of the acquisition date.
- SOX:
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or SOX for short, is a United States federal law that mandate most U.S. companies to enhance their systems of internal control in order to protect investors from fraudulent accounting activities.
Financial Industry Abbreviations/Acronyms
- ADR:
- American Depositary Receipt
- CAE:
- Chief Audit Executive
- CCO:
- Chief Compliance Officer
- CEF:
- Closed End Fund
- CEO:
- Chief Executive Officer
- CFA:
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- CFO:
- Chief Financial Officer
- CHRO:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- CIA:
- Certified Internal Auditor
- CIO:
- Chief Information Officer or Chief Investment Officer
- CISO:
- Chief Information Security Officer
- COO:
- Chief Operating Officer
- CPA:
- Certified Public Accountant
- CRO:
- Chief Risk Officer
- CSO:
- Chief Security Officer
- CTO:
- Chief Technology Officer
- CUSIP:
- Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures
- DSS:
- Decision Support Systems
- EGC:
- Emerging Growth Company
- FA:
- Financial Advisor
- FX:
- Foreign eXchange
- FINRA:
- Financial INdustry Regulatory Authority
- IMF:
- International Monetary Fund
- IPO:
- Initial Public Offering
- MIS:
- Management Information Systems
- NAV:
- Net Asset Value
- PE:
- Price/Earnings (ratio) or Private Equity
- PT:
- Price Target
- PPI:
- Producer Price Index
- QE:
- Quantitative Easing
- SEC:
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- SOX:
- Sarbanes-OXley Act of 2002
- TSR:
- Total Shareholder Return
List of Securities Licenses
- Series 3:
- The National Commodities Future Exam AKA the Series 3 Examination, is a National Futures Association (NFA) exam administered by FINRA. The National Futures Association (NFA) requires an individual to successfully complete the Series 3 in order to become qualified to sell commodities, futures contracts, and options on commodities futures contracts. The Series 3 exam is a prerequisite to the NFA Futures Branch Manager Exam (Series 30).