Business Abbreviations

Here are twenty abbreviations often used in business. Some people adopt the following rule for punctuation of abbreviations:

if last letter of word and abbreviation are the same: no full stop (for example Ltd)
if last letter of word and abbreviation are NOT the same: full stop (for example Co.)

1	A.G.M.	Annual General Meeting (of company shareholders)
2	A.O.B.	any other business (at the end of a meeting agenda)
3	a/c	account, as for bank account [eg: a/c no. 123456789]
4	c.i.f.	cost, insurance, freight
5	c/o	care of [on an envelope e.g: Mrs G Smith, c/o Mrs B Brown]
6	cc:	copies to [at the end of a letter eg: cc: TE, JMR, JSA]
7	Co.	Company
8	e.g.	for example [from the Latin exempli gratia]
9	E.G.M.	Extraordinary General Meeting (of company shareholders)
10	f.o.b.	free on board
11	f.o.c.	free of charge
12	HQ	headquarters (of a company or other organisation)
13	Inc.^US	Incorporated [after the name of a firm organised as a legal corporation]
14	Ltd^UK	Limited [after the name of a firm organised as a legal company]
15	O.H.P.	overhead projector
16	P.A.	personal assistant
17	PLC^UK	Public Limited Company [for a firm whose shares are sold on the open market]
18	p.t.o.	please turn over [at the end of a page]
19	v.a.t.	value added tax
20	WP	word processing (or creation of text by computer)