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E&OE - Errors and Omissions Excepted (printing/publication notice to limit potential liability)
E&P - earnings and profit
EA - enterprise architecture (design (description/documentation of the design) of the components of a business system, the relationships between them, and how they support the objectives of the enterprise)
EAC - estimates at completion
EAI - enterprise application integration
EAM - embedded audit module (specially written audit software embedded/incorporated in an organization's host application system to allow for continuous monitoring of application systems)
EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol (framework, or collection of authentication methods available when establishing network connections)
EAT - earnings after tax
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded (for) Decimal Interchange Code (text formatting code - numeric representation of characters)
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Information Code (text formatting code - numeric representation of characters)
EBIAT - Earnings Before Interest After Taxes
EBILAT - Earnings Before Interest Less Adjusted Taxes
EBIT - Earnings Before Interest and Taxes
EBITD - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation
EBITDA - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
EBITDAR - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, and Rent
EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
EBT - Earnings Before Taxes
EC - electronic commerce (Ecommerce) (buying and selling of goods online)
EC - European Community
ECB - European Central Bank
ECC - elliptical (elliptic) curve cryptography (data encryption method)
ECGI - European Corporate Governance Institute (standards setting body)
ECI - Employment Cost Index (Department of Labor report tracking employer payroll/employment numbers)
ECM - European Common Market
ECN - Electronic Communications Network (electronic system used by stock exchanges for trading and reporting)
ECOA - Equal Credit Opportunity Act
ECU - European Currency Unit
EDFA - enterprise data flow architecture (design (description/documentation of the design) showing how data flows/interacts with, the various components/layers of an organizational system)
EDGAR - Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (SEC online electronic data system database for filing, analysis, reporting)
EDI - electronic data interchange (transfer of information, documents electronically using web-based technologies)
EDP - electronic data processing (computerized processing of data/transactions)
EDPA - electronic data processing accounting
EEC - European Economic Community
EEOC - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EER - equal error rate (point where the false-rejection rate and the false-acceptance rate are equal)
EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer (transfer of funds between accounts by electronic means - transfers other than checks)
EFTS - Electronic Fund Transfer System (system for electronically transferring funds among sellers, buyers, and other parties with the need to write checks)
EGTRRA - Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
EI - earned income
EI - employment insurance
EIGRP - Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco router protocol allowing for faster updates and better communications across multiple networks)
EITF - Emerging Issues Task Force (group formed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to look at new accounting/auditing issues)
EJB - Enterprise Java Beans (Oracle development tool for disigning component-based (stand-alone) software packages)
EMI - electromagnetic interference
EMRT - emergency response time
EMS - European Monetary System
EOQ - Economic Order Quantity (amount of orders necessary to minimize costs related to the ordering and carrying of inventory)
EPR - Earnings-Price Ratio (relationship of earnings per share to current stock price)
EPS - Earnings per Share (company earnings/profits on a per share basis - profit divided by the number of shares)
ERD - entity relationship diagram
ERISA - Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
ERM - enterprise risk management (system used by an enterprise to identify, analyze, and control risk)
ERP - enterprise resource planning (system of organizing/analyzing organizational data to efficiently use resources - computerized systems development for managing resources)
ERTA - Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
ESOP - Employee Stock Ownership Plan
ESP - Encapsulation Security Payload (encryption of payload portion of data packet)
ESPP - Employee Stock Purchase Plan
ETAV - estimated total audit value (audit sampling/population measure calculation)
ETF - Exchange Traded Fund (mutual fund shares traded like stocks on the exchanges)
ETF - Electronic Transfer Funds (equity funds of diverse stocks sold to investors - costing less than mutual fund shares)
ETF - Equity Transfer Fund (diverse basket of stocks sold to investors for trading)
EU - European Union
EV - earned value (percentage of project completed out of total project budget)
EV - enterprise value (measure of what the market believes a company is worth)
EV - expected value (expected result of a decision when the outcome is uncertain)
EVA - earned value analysis (analysis of planned cost of work allocated to comleted activities)
Eximbank - Export-Import Bank