Business abbreviation

• AGM

  Annual General Meeting
• APR

  Annual Percentage Rate
• AOB

  any other business
• ATM

  Automated Teller Machine
• BEP

  break-even point
• BIK

  Benefit in kind
• CAP

  Common Agricultural Policy
• CCPC

  Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
• CEO

  chief executive officer
• CFF

  cash flow forecast
• CFP

  Common Fisheries Policy
• CGT

  capital gains tax
• CPI

  consumer price index
• CRO

  companies registration office
• DAC

  Designated Activity Company
• DIRT

  Deposit Interest Retention Tax
• ECJ

  European Court of Justice
• ERDF

  European Regional Development Fund
• EDI

  Electronic Data Interchange
• EGM

  extraordinary general meeting
• EPOS

  Electronic point of sale
• EMU

  Economic and Monetary Union
• ESF

  European Social Fund
• FDI

  foreign direct investment
• GDPR

  General Data Protection Regulation
• HRM

  Human resource management
• IBEC

  Irish Business and Employers Confederation
• ICT

  Information and Communication Technology
• ICTU

  Irish Congress of Trade Unions
• IDA

  Industrial Development Authority
• IFA

  Irish Farmers Association
• ISME

  Irish small and medium sized enterprise
• ISO

  International Standards Organisation
• JIT

  just in time
• LEO

  Local enterprise office
• MBO

  Management Buy-out
• MNC

  multinational corporation
• PAYE

  Pay as you earn
• PLC

  public limited company
• PPSN

  Personal Public Service Number