Dear Accountants Everywhere,

Stop abbreviating everything. You’re not saving anyone any time.

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LOL at the anti-abbreviation crusade! But let's be real, abbreviations are key to our KPIs. Whether it's aligning EBITDA with FCF or ensuring our NWC stays on point, we're just leveraging TLA efficiency for a better ROI. Let’s sync up later—if you want, I’ll even include the BCP in the P&Ps for our next QBR. JK, see you at the EOM!"

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I think author Price Waterhouse Coopers is saying Tick Mark 1?

Laughing my ass off😩

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Deloitte?

You really think I’m talking about lmao?

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Why use lot word when few word do trick

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That’s exactly how I feel when I see an abbreviated thing

This guy could have just spelled out the abbreviated thing and I wouldn’t be here trying to figure out what the abbreviation means

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Please refer to us as “CPAs”

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That CPA really is so confusing when I took this course online it’s under CPA. Canadian Payroll Association later on it became National Payroll Institute. It has the same colour logo as Certified Professional Accountant or is it Certified Public Accountant.?

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TLDR; confused if this is about acronyms or everyone saying adorbs instead of adorable.

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adorbs is fine

I don’t think yall are following me here 😒

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When people ask where you work do you say “pricewaterhousecoopers” or pwc?

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This guys funny

You can keep using abbreviations 😂

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The accusation that PWC is paid by the word may be true.

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I’m also a certified public accountant

That took me an extra 2seconds

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Why not spell our PWC every time?

I am confused. You first say it doesn’t save time. Then you said it would have saved you two second. Then you said you didn’t say it was going to save you time. But in your last reply you said it does not save you time.

Could you go back and detail review your work and update it before sending this back to me?

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Bad take. Please keep abbreviating as long as you spell it out for the first use. Don’t make abbreviations up but if a generally accepted one exists, use it.

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My question to you is why your staff and seniors don’t know the meanings of the abbreviations they are using?

For real??

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PFAW, POFI, IMM, etc

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What does that even mean? Lol

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Foh! Lol

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Front of house?

Alright well this was a massive let down

Thanks for listening everyone

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What does the World Wide Web have to do with anything?

There’s many seniors who use their acronym speak to hide their lack of understanding

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Can you give an example? Because otherwise it just sounds like you need to train them if you spot lack of understanding.

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I saw this a lot before I left in 2019. It wasn't the common abbreviations you see every day, it was the ones that staff just randomly made up. Such as PDWC (per discussion with client), VIR (variance is reasonable). The guy who was making all these up had been with our firm since he was a staff, so he didn't bring them over from another firm. He just randomly one day decided he was going to make up his own abbreviations.

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