Glossary
Glossary
Throughout this site acronyms may be used as abbreviations for organization names, titles, inter-governmental bodies and initiatives, business methodologies etc. This page offers some definitions which you may find helpful:
- ACI
- AMA
- AML
- Audit related services
- BEPS
- BRIC
- CAS
- CEE
- De minimis aid
- EHIC
- ELV
- EMA
- ENR
- Enterprise 2.0
- ERM
- Estate agent/realtor
- EU-ETS
- Euro I
- Euro IV exhaust emission standards
- Euro V
- EVM project management software
- FMCG
- Four dimensions of business change, the
- FSA
- GAPP
- GCC
- GTMS
- GTPS
- HAZMAT legislation
- IASB
- ICAAP
- IFIs
- IFRS
- IFSB
- Innovation
- Interpreter®
- IRR
- KPMG ENR Tax Masterclass training program
- KPMG Financial Services Global Client Program
- KPMG IFRG
- MNOs
- OECD
- OEMs
- PFIs
- PIT
- PPPs
- Prospective reporting
- R&D tax credit
- R&D&I
- REACH
- Residency certificate
- RoHS
- RWCR
- SEC
- SME
- State aid
- TaxCube
- US Basel II
- WEEE
KPMG established the Audit Committee Institute (ACI) to help audit committee members keep pace with business issues relating to governance, audit, accounting and financial reporting. Since its inception in 1999, KPMG member firms have launched ACIs in 20 countries.
Advanced measurement approach
Anti-money laundering
Services designed to help clients address specific issues which may relate to major regulatory or reporting changes or to the need for special skills on accounting matters.
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. The term is related to the tax planning strategy which uses gaps and inconsistencies within the tax law in order to hide or transfer profits to jurisdictions where the taxpayer shows limited or lack of activity, but where the tax rates are low. This results in low taxation or tax avoidance. The term was spread by OECD Report on the prevention of BEPS which was published in February 2013 and which consisted of 15 actions that should be taken by the states to prevent unfair tax avoidance and transferring profits to tax havens.
Brazil, Russia, India and China
Capital Adequacy Standard
Central and Eastern Europe
Public funding given in small amounts that has a negligible impact on trade and competition. A ceiling of de minimis aid reaches EUR 200 000 granted to a single recipient over a period of three years (a specific EUR 100 000 applies to road transport). De minimis aid is deemed not to fall within the scope of Article 107(1) TFEU and is therefore exempt from the notification requirement.
European Health Insurance Card. This confirms the right for individuals temporarily resident in other EU/EEA countries to receive medical treatment, the cost of which is then borne by the Polish National Health Fund. An EHIC card can only be issued to individuals which are covered by the social security system.
End of Life Vehicles Directive. EU legislation.
Europe, Middle East and Africa region
Energy & Natural Resources. The ENR sector includes oil and gas, power and utilities, mining and forestry industries.
Enterprise social software (E2.0). The use of an entire suite of emergent technologies — wikis, blogs, tagging, and social networking tools — both inside companies and between companies and the outside world.
Enterprise Risk Management frameworks
U.K. usage: estate agent; US usage: realtor. Professionals dealing with the valuation and sale of property.
EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Launched in January 2005 with mandatory GHG (green house gas) emission controls for industrial activities from 1 January 2005. Currently focusing on activities including the production and the manufacture of ferrous metals, pulp and paper, the scope of the scheme is expected to be widened to include other GHG emissions and industrial activities from January 2008.
Legislative regime that came into effect in 1992.
Euro IV exhaust emission standards
EU legislation.
Legislative regime to come into effect in 2008.
EVM project management software
Earned value management project management software. Software that evaluates contractor management.
Fast moving consumer goods
Four dimensions of business change, the
People, processes, technology and risk/control
U.K. Financial Services Authority
Global Assignment Policies and Practices
Gulf Co-operation Council
Global Tax Management System. A KPMG proprietary system.
KPMG Global Transfer Pricing Services practice. A network of KPMG professionals based in KPMG member firms providing transfer pricing services.
Legislation regarding the regulation of hazardous materials.
International Accounting Standards Board
Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process
Islamic financial institutions
International Financial Reporting Standards
Islamic Financial Services Board
New or significantly improved product (product or service) or process, new method or new marketing method implemented in practice.
KPMG web-based transfer pricing platform.
Integrated regulatory reporting
KPMG ENR Tax Masterclass training program
The Masterclass training program is a cooperative approach to learning. Built around case study workgroups, over the course of two days, the workgroups and the client work together discussing client issues, brainstorming possible solutions, and cultivating a client/KPMG network.
KPMG Financial Services Global Client Program
Through the Global Client Program Financial Services coordinates global service delivery, to clients aligning their line of business, functions and regional needs.
KPMG International Financial Reporting Group. A single independent unit based in the U.K. providing international financial reporting services.
Mobile network operators
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. An organisation of 34 highly developed and democratic countries which was established in order to support member states to achieve the highest level of economic growth and quality of life of their citizens.
Original equipment manufacturer(s)
Private finance initiatives
Personal Income Tax – a direct tax on income received by individuals. In Poland, this tax is regulated by the Income Tax Act of 26 July 1991, and this tax applies to all individuals that receive remuneration (e.g. from employment or other types of contract) or business activity income.
Public private partnership
Where permitted, assisting clients with the preparation, due diligence or attestation required as part of a process to obtain financing.
Tax relief for carrying out R&D activities given in the form of an additional set-off of costs incurred for research and development against taxable income. R&D tax credit applies to all businesses, regardless of industry and size. The relief allows the deduction of 10 to 30% (from 2017 it is planned to increase the amount of relief up to 50%) identified in the records expenses on research and development activities.
Research & Development & Innovation; activities including research and/or development undertaken in a systematic manner in order to increase the knowledge and use them to create new applications; It is also the business of developing new technology and run on the basis of the production of new or significantly improved products, processes, technologies or services.
Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals. European Union (EU) directive which came into effect on June 1, 2007 and requires chemical manufacturers and importers in the EU to prove the safety of their products.
A document which confirms that a given individual or company is considered a tax resident of a country and is subject to a worldwide tax liability in that country.
Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
Risk-weighted capital ratio
US Securities and Exchange Commission
Micro, small or medium-sized enterprise within the meaning of Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty.
Advantage in any form granted to enterprises which cumulatively meet the following conditions: there has been an intervention by the State or through State resources, the intervention gives the recipient an advantage on a selective basis, competition has been or may be distorted, the intervention is likely to affect trade between Member States of the European Union. Due to the policy of protection of competitiveness on the EU market, state aid may be granted under strictly specified conditions. The most commonly used forms of state aid include: grants, tax relief, loan granted on preferential terms, warranty, guarantee, debt waiver, the postponement of payment of cash benefits or spreading payments in installments.
KPMG proprietary software
Known as Basel IA
Waste Electrical and Electronic Directive