Business Acronyms and Abbreviations Presentation
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Short forms in business review.
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Business acronyms and abbreviations presentation
Business acronyms presentation
Split the list of words below into things which can be written as acronyms, e.g. ASEAN, and write those acronyms as a list below.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations annual general meeting as soon as possible business to business corporate social responsibility chief executive officer chief finance officer chief operating officer curriculum vitae estimated time of arrival Financial Times financial year 2020 for your information frequently asked questions Great British pounds Greenwich Mean Time gross domestic product headquarters human responses intellectual property the internet of things initial public offering mergers and acquisitions master of business administration Middle East and North Africa per annum personal assistant profit and loss public limited company public relations research and development real estate investment trust return on investment small and medium-sized enterprises search engine optimisation to be announced to be arranged to be confirmed to be determined trade mark United States dollars unique selling points value added tax vice president any other business
Suggested answers
- ASEAN
- AGM
- ASAP
- B2B
- CSR
- CEO
- CFO
- COO
- CV
- ETA
- FT
- FY2020
- FYI
- FAQ
- GBP
- GMT
- GDP
- HQ
- HR
- IP
- IoT
- IPO
- M&A
- MBA
- MENA
- PA
- PA
- P&L
- PLC
- PR
- R&D
- REIT
- ROI
- SMEs
- SEO
- TBA
- TBA
- TBC
- TBD
- TM
- USD
- USPs
- VAT
- VP
- AOB
Try to remember what all the acronyms above stand for.
Business abbreviations presentation
Join the halves of the words below to make the longer versions of the abbreviations on the left.
admin erative
ad imately
advert isement
approx istration
co-op nstration
Corp oration
(political/ product) demo orporated
fig rmation
Inc ure 1
info vertisement
kilo ellaneous
max garding
memo gramme
misc imum
re munications
sales rep orary staff
telecom randum
temp resentative
trade/ labor union
Check as a class.
Test each other on the expressions above:
- Say a short version for your partner to say the long version of
- Say a long version for your partner to say the short version of
Make as many of these phrases shorter as you can. Note that some cannot be made shorter and so should be kept as they are.
- administration
- advertisement
- after sales service
- approximately
- British pounds
- business to business
- commercial
- cooperative
- Corporation
- deflation
- (political/ product) demonstration
- figure 1
- financial technology
- foreign exchange
- fourth quarter
- Greenwich Mean Time
- headquarters
- Incorporated
- inflation
- information
- kilogramme
- kilometre
- limited (company/ liability company)
- maximum
- memorandum
- mergers and acquisitions
- miscellaneous
- new recruit
- part time
- regarding
- research and development
- sales representative
- social media
- specifications
- telecommunications
- telephone conference
- temporary staff
- trade union/ labor union
- trademark
- value added tax
Suggested answers
- admin
- ad/ advert
- after sales service
- pounds
- B2B
- commercial
- co-op
- Corp
- deflation
- (political/ product) demo
- fig 1
- fintech
- forex
- Q4
- GMT
- HQ
- Inc
- inflation
- info
- kilo/ kg
- km
- Ltd
- max
- memo
- M&A
- new recruit
- P/T
- re
- R&D
- sales rep
- social media
- specs
- telecoms
- teleconference
- temp
- union
- TM
- VAT
Try to remember the longer version of each of these expressions.
admin
approx.
ASAP
B2B
CFO
FY2020
co-op
Corp
(political/ product) demo
fig. 1
fintech
GDP
GMT
HQ
HR
IP
Inc
kilo
Ltd
M&A
max
memo
misc.
PLC
PR
Q4
R&D
re
sales rep
SMEs
specs
TBA/ TBC/ TBD
USPs
telecom
teleconference
temp
union
VAT
Check above.
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