| 1. AGM
| a. A tax on goods or services sold which is calculated on the difference between the cost of raw materials and production, and the market value of the final product.
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| 2. a.m.
| b. A body of people acting jointly, e.g. for administration or business purposes and who are recognized by law as acting as an individual.
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| 3. AOB (a.o.b.; AOCB; a.o.c.b.)
| c. A company whose shares are available for purchase on the open market by the public.
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| 4. ASAP (asap)
| d. A director in overall charge of an organization and its day-to-day running, often carrying out the decisions of a board of directors. (Br.E)
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| 5. CEO
| e. A meeting of a public company, society, etc. held once a year when financial and other reports are presented, and official elections are held, etc.
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| 6. Corp.
| f. A written and signed note that serves as acknowledgement of a debt.
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| 7. e.g.
| g. The last item on the agenda for a meeting, when any matter not already delt with may be raised.
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| 8. GMT
| h. as soon as possible
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| 9. i.e.
| i. the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency (Am.E).
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| 10. IOU (colloq)
| j. for example
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| 11. Ltd.
| k. for each year; yearly; by the year
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| 12. MD
| l. that is; that is to say
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| 13. n/a
| m. a method of collecting income tax from employees by deducting it from the wages or salary due to be paid to them.
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| 14. PAYE
| n. indicating time from midnight to midday
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| 15. p.a.
| o. used at the end of the names of limited liability companies
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| 16. plc
| p. Where three or more elements are not compatible, it is said the resulting data is not applicable. For example, in a sport results table, where all teams are columns and rows, those cells which would show a team versus itself are usually marked with this abbreviation
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| 17. VAD
| q. The local time at the line of 0º longitude, which passes through Greenwich in England, used to calculate times in most other parts of the world
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