What Does that Mean???

There are so many acronyms that you may come across when looking through job adverts. Sometimes adverts are so full of them that you may be left wondering what it is they are looking for.

To help you with your quest we thought it would be use full to post some of the most common below:

AAE According to Age and Experience ACA Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ACCA Associate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants B2B Business to Business B2C Business to Customer/Consumer B2E Business to Education B2G Business to Government CAA Civil Aviation Authority CAD Computer Aided Design CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing CEO Chief Executive Officer C or Circa Around/Approximately CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIM Chartered Institute of Marketing CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CIPS Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply CNC Computer Numerical Control CPMI Computerised Personnel Management Information CRM Customer Relationship Management CTOChief Technical Officer CWQU Company Wide Quality Improvement EAP Employee Assistance Programme eCRM Electronic Customer Relationship Management EIS Executive Information System/Enterprise Information Systems EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer Point of Sale EMEA Europe, Middle East & Africa EPO Enterprise Profit OptimisationEPOSElectronic Point of Sale ERP Enterprise Resource Planning FCA Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants FCCA Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants FIFO First in First out (stock valuation) FMCG Fast Moving Consumer Goods FX Foreign Exchange HRD Human Resource Development HTML Hypertext Markup Language - programming code for web pages IIS Internet Information ServerITInformation Technology iTV Interactive Television IWS Integrated Work Stations JIT Just In Time (stock system) K Thousand Kanban JIT method for reducing costs in high volume production lines  - derived from Japanese system - more info KPI Key Performance Indicators LAN Local Area NetworkLEALocal Education Authority LIFO Last In First Out (stock valuation) MBA Master of Business Administration M-F Monday to Friday M/F Male/Female MIS Management Information System MRP Material Requisition Planning Neg Negotiable NPD New Product Development NVQ National Vocational Qualification OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OTC Over The Counter OTE On Target Earnings PA Per Annum PA Personal Assistant PCM Per Calendar Month PRP Performance Related Pay QA Quality Assurance QC Quality Control RF Radio Frequency SAP (stands for 'systemanalyse und programmentwicklung' honest!) - enterprise wide software solution used by large companies to integrate applications - became popular in the early 90's SAP APO SAP's Advanced Planning Optimiser is a software solution managing global supply chain management SLA Service Level Agreement SMC Surface Mounted Component SMT Surface Mounted Technology SPC Statistical Process Control SQL Pronounced 'see-qwell', stands for Structured Query Language - a popular programming language used in databases TEFL Teaching English as a Foreign Language TPM Total Preventative Maintenance/Total Productive Maintenance TQC Total Quality Control TQM Total Quality Management UML Unified Modelling Language - programming language W/E Weekend WAPWireless Application Protocol WPM Words Per Minute XML Extensible Markup Language - pared down version of internet code and commonly used for writing WAP applications

For more technology terminology, try http://www.webopedia.com/ or http://www.whatis.com both these sites should be able to give you more detailed lists of accronyms not listed here.