Corporate Communications and Jargons

I wanted to write this note for some time. My interactions with lot of teams who works with me triggered to take a determined effort to make this note for all those youngsters, who’re seeking jobs and also for those who’ve just landed at their first jobs.

  

I request all those who work in senior positions at various organizations to add more value through their comments to this collection of vocabulary of jargons used in corporate communications.

Jargons have been part of human culture since ages and of late, it became the order of the day in corporate communications as the conventional and conservative business practices withered away with new thrust of information technology and the work culture built around it. Many a times, in my professional journey, I came across shockers of such acronyms and found myself humiliated for lack of knowing it. Things are different now and anyone can google about anything and in the most likelihood, one will end up with many answers and sometimes, it becomes confusing to choose the right one.

However, there are lot of acronyms used in new era ‘SMS’ and ‘Chat’ communications, which I’m not touching at all, as it is not very important in the corporate communication at this point of time.

So…here we go….

S.No	Usage	Expansion	Context
1	PFA	Please Find Attached	Mail Attachments
2	ETA	Expected Time of Arrival	Flight schedules/ Project Scenario
3	ASAP	As Soon As Possible	Mails/ Correspondence
4	FYI	For Your Information	Forwarded mails/ Files
5	FYI & A	For Your Information and Action	Forwarded mails & files
6	TL	Team Lead	Projects
7	TL	Top Line	Finance projections (Gross Revenues/ Profits)
8	BL	Branch Lead	Sales & Marketing
9	BL	Bottom Line	Finance Projections (Nett Revenues/ Nett Profits)
10	FYP	For Your Perusal	Reporting/ Submissions
11	FYP & A	For Your Perusal & Action	Reporting/ Submissions
12	PFB	Please Find Below	Mails/ Correspondence
13	UP	Under Production	IT/ Film Industry (Very context specific)
14	UT	Unit Test	Education & Software Testing
15	UT	Union Territory	Geography & Politics
16	UAT	User Acceptability Test	Software Testing/ Quality Assurance
17	PPt	Power Point/ Paper Presentation	Corporate Presentations/ Seminars
18	JFM	Jan – Feb – Mar (Quarter)	Sales & Marketing/ Finance Projections
19	AMJ	Apr – May – Jun (Quarter)	Sales & Marketing/ Finance Projections
20	JAS	Jul – Aug – Sep (Quarter)	Sales & Marketing/ Finance Projections
21	OND	Oct – Nov – Dec (Quarter)	Sales & Marketing/ Finance Projections
22	PLC	Product Life Cycle	Product Management
23	TQM	Total Quality Management	Quality Policy
24	QA	Quality Assurance	Quality Management
25	CAP	Corrective Action Process/ Programme	Corporate Counseling & Rehabilitation pgm
26	Pgm	Programme	Programs/ Package etc.
27	Id/ ID	Identity	Identity Card/ Code
28	PR	Public Relations	Corporate Media Management
29	PR	Please Revert	Corporate Communications
30	KUG	Key User Group	Project Scenario
31	PM	Project Manager	Projects

Once again, I request all the readers to contribute more into this world of Jargons. If this was useful and interesting,  kindly write your comments.