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NAA - National Association of Accountants (organization mostly of non-CPAs, management accountants)
NAARS - National Automated Accounting (Accounting Automated) Research System (AICPA online database)
NAC - National Adjudicatory Council (NASDAQ)
NAC - Network Access Control (methods and technologies used to impose security and configuration settings on a device before it is allowed into a corporate network)
NACD - National Association of Corporate Directors (organization promoting/assisting directors and boards of directors)
NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement (trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico)
NAHB - National Association of Home Builders
NAIC - National Association of Investors Corporation (nonprofit educational association)
NAICS - North American Industry/Industrial Classification System (federally-designed company/industry identification system)
NALGA - National Association of Local Government Auditors (organization for public sector auditors)
NAM - National Association of Manufacturers
NAO - National Audit Office (British central government auditing agency)
NAP - Network Access Point (traffic concentration spot, point of convergence for Internet access by many Internet service providers)
NAPA - National Association of Purchasing Agents
NAPFA - National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
NAPM - National Association of Purchasing Management
NAR - National Association of Realtors
NAREIT - National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (trade association for income-producing real estate businesses)
NAS - network access server (server handling user authentication, access control, and accounting, while maintaining connectivity)
NAS - network attached storage (mass storage device that attaches directly to a network) (dedicated file server that has its own file system and typically uses hardware and software designed for serving and storing files)
NAS - nonaudit services (alternative term for management advisory services)
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (government agency)
NASAA- North American Securities Administrators Association (voluntary association of state securities administrators)
NASBA - National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (national organization representing the state licensing boards/agencies regulating the CPA profession)
NASD - National Association of Securities Dealers (organization of brokers and dealers who handle over-the-counter market securities)
NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system (electronic stock market listing service)
NAT - Network Address Translation (method of IP address assignment that uses an alternate public IP address to hide a system's real IP address - allows private Internet Protocol addresses to be translated into Internet routable (public) addresses )
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (military alliance)
NAV - Net Asset Value (market value of a mutual fund share)
NAV - Net Asset Value (book value of a company's different classes of securities)
NBI - Narrow-Based Index (futures contract on a small group of stocks)
NBS - National Bureau of Standards (predecessor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Department of Commerce)
NCGA - National Council of Governmental Accounting
NCP - Network Control Protocol (protocol which establishes and configures different network layer protocols)
NCUA - National Credit Union Administration (independent federal agency overseeing the federal credit union system)
NDA - nondisclosure agreement (contract in which parties agree not to disclose information considered confidential)
NDP - net domestic products (gross domestic products minus depreciation)
NED - nonexecutive director (British term for outside director)
NEMS - National Exchange Market System
NEO - Nonequity Options (foreign currencies, bonds, commodities, metals)
NFA - National Futures Association (self-regulatory organization for the futures industry)
NFCF - net free cash flow (measure of cash flow available after an enterprise meets its essential obligations)
NFIB - National Federation of Independent Business (advocacy organization for small and independent businesses)
NFPA - National Fire Protection Agency
NG - net gain
NGO - nongovernmental organization (private sector organization providing assistance, relief, and aid to developing countries)
NI - national income (all income earned by country's people)
NI - net income (excess of revenues over expenses of a business in a given period of time)
NIAT - net income after taxes (income less taxes)
NIBIT - net income before interest and taxes (net income before deducting interest expense and income taxes)
NIC - net interest cost (total interest that will be paid on a debt/total amount of interest that a corporate or municipal bond issuer will end up paying on issuance)
NIC - network interface card (communication card in a computer which allows communication with other computers on a network)
NICS - Newly Industrialized Countries
NIF - Note Issuance Facility
NIFO - Next-In, First-Out (inventory valuation method where the cost of sale of the item is based on the cost to replace (next purchase) rather than historical cost)
NIP - Normal Investment Practice (industry practice norms/customer past activity)
NIPA - National Income and Product Account (statement/country economic measure showing national income and national products produced during a given period)
NIRI - National Investor Relations Institute (professional association of corporate officers/consultants)
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology (federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce which provides standards for computers and information technology systems)
NIT - Negative Income Tax (proposed guaranteed minimum income/subsidy system for those too poor to pay taxes)
NL - net loss (excess of expenses over revenue)
NLRA - National Labor Relations Act
NLRB - National Labor Relations Board
NMAB - National Market Advisory Board
NMB - National Mediation Board
NMS - National Market System (concept/goal of creating a common national electronic securities market system in order to foster competition)
NNO - non-government, nonbusiness organization
NNP - Net National Product
NOI - Net Operating Income (income after deducting for operating expenses but before deducting for income taxes and interest)
NOL - Net Operating Loss (tax term for excess of business expenses over income in a tax year/generally - excess of operating expenses over operating revenue (gross profit) )
NOPAT - net operating profit after tax
NOPLAT - net operating profit less adjusted tax
NOW - Negotiable Order of Withdrawal (bank or savings and loan withdrawal ticket that is a negotiable instrument)
NP - notary public
N/P - Notes Payable
NPV - Net Present Value (difference between the present value of cash inflows generated by a project and the amount of the initial investment)
NPV - No Par Value stock (company stock issued without a stated value)
NQA - net quick asset (quick assets (cash and cash equivalents) minus current liabilities )
NRV - net realizable value (what a seller will realize from the sale of an asset, after deducting selling costs)
NSA - National Society of Accountants
NSA - National Security Agency (federal agency)
NSBA - National Small Business Association
NSCC - National Securities Clearing Corporation
NSE - National Stock Exchange of India
NSF - Not Sufficient Funds check (check written on a bank account with a balance insufficient to cover/pay the check)
NSO - non-qualifying stock option (option which does not qualify for long-term capital gains treatment)
NSPA - National Society of Public Accountants (predecessor of the National Society of Accountants)
NSTS - National Securities Trading System (all-electronic stock exchange created by the National Stock Exchange)
NSX - National Stock Exchange (Chicago-based all-electronic stock exchange of registered broker-dealers)
NTA - net tangible assets (total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities)
NTP - Network Time Protocol (protocol that is used to contact authoritative time servers in order to establish a synchronized time source within the network)
NTU - Normal Trading Unit (standard size of a trading unit/block for a particular security)
NYBOT - New York Board of Trade (commodity exchange trading futures and options on agricultural products and currencies)
NYCE - New York Cotton Exchange (former exchange for cotton)
NYCSCE - New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (former commodity exchange for coffee, sugar and cocoa)
NYFE - New York Futures Exchange (exchange for futures and options)
NYMEX - New York Mercantile Exchange (largest world physical commodity exchange for energy and metals products - oil, gas, electricity, gold, copper, aluminum)
NYSE - New York Stock Exchange (exchange for equities/stocks, bonds, and derivatives)
NW - net worth (a company's total assets in excess of total liabilities)
NZFOE - New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange
NZSE - New Zealand Stock Exchange