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Auditing Terms - Hhardware/software (HW/SW) -
headquarters (HQ) -
Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of (HHS) -
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) -
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) -
Health Savings Account (HSA) -
held-to-maturity (HTM) - (debt security intended to be held to maturity)
hierarchy input-process-output (HIPO) -
high availability (HA) - (amount of time a system is operational - level of importance given to uninterrupted service)
High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) - (method of creating and transmitting packet frames across networks)
highest-in, first-out (HIFO) - (mutual fund accounting - shares with highest costs are sold first)
Highly Leveraged Transaction (HLT) - (loan to a highly leveraged business)
historical cost accounting (HCA) - (reporting of assets at original cost)
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) - (reverse mortgage)
Home Equity Loan (HEL) -
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) -
house account (HA) - (business' earliest customers who have remained customers as the business grows)
House of Representatives (HR) - Lower chamber of U.S. Congress.
Housing and Urban Development, Department of (HUD) - (cabinet-level federal agency, founded in 1965, which is responsible for housing development in the United States through subsidies for low- and moderate-income housing and urban renewal projects, often through loan guarantees)
human-machine interface (HMI) - (where users interact/communicate with a computer system - user station)
human resource accounting (HRA) - (method of valuing the human factor costs/measuring the impact of decisions on employees)
human resources (HR) - (Department within a company which oversees employee matters, such as hiring and firing, employee benefits, and planning for future staffing needs.)