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Auditing Terms - WWall Street Journal (WSJ) - (New York-based financial newspaper)
warehouse book (WB) -
warehouse receipt (WR) - (document listing goods or commodities kept for safekeeping in a warehouse)
warrant (WT) - (type of security, usually issued with a bond or preferred stock, that entitles the holder to buy a proportionate amount of common stock at a specified price)
Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) -
waste book (WB) - (an old sytem of analysis of the daily transactions occurring in a bank office - replaced by automated bookkeeping)
waybill (WB) - (a shipping document listing the goods sent by a common carrier, such as a railroad, as well as the charges)
web application firewall (WAF) - (System setup that inspects packet traffic going to (or coming from) a web application in order to filter out potentially malicious content.)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) - (a Web-based standard language which provides a machine-readable description of the specific operations provided by the service)
weighted average capital cost/weighted average cost of capital (WACC) - (weights the percentage cost of each component by the percentage of that component in the financial structure)
Weighted Average Maturity (WAM) - (calculation used in mortgage-backed pass-through securities meaning the weighted-average time to the return of a dollar or principal)
Wide Area Network (WAN) - (computer network comprising a large geographic area)
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) - (a class of systems used to secure wireless computer networks using key encryption)
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) - (agricultural futures and options exchange)
wired equivalent privacy (WEP) - (scheme/standard intended to provide some level of confidentiality for wireless networks)
wireless access point (WAP) - (low-power transmitter/receiver connected to a local area network providing access to the network)
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) - (wireless system network communication protocol)
wireless local area network (WLAN) - (a local network connecting computers, tablets, smartphones, and similar devices to the network using an access point device)
Wireless Markup Language (WML) -
wireless personal area network (WPAN) - (short-range wireless networks that connect wireless devices to one another)
wireless wide area network (WWAN) - (a wireless network which uses cellular radio transmitters, receivers, and transceivers (cell phones, laptops) to communicate with wired local area networks)
work breakdown structure (WBS) - (listing of the the units of work/components/tasks required/involved in completing a project - designed to group project work elements in an organized manner)
work-in-process (WIP) - (same as work-in-progress) (partially completed inventory units at the end of an accounting period) (products in the process of being manufactured which have received a portion of all of their materials, with some labor and overhead applied but that are not completed)
work-in-progress (WIP) - (same as work-in-process) (partially completed inventory units at the end of an accounting period) (products in the process of being manufactured which have received a portion of all of their materials, with some labor and overhead applied but that are not completed)
work order (WO) - (an order issued to a factory to produce a definite quantity of a given unit or article)
work package (WP) - (unit of work included in a project work breakdown structure analysis)
Workmen's Compensation Act (WCA) -
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - (international organization dedicated to the promotion of environmental and social sustainability)
World Trade Organization (WTO) - (independent multilateral agency, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, administering world trade agreements)
World Wide Web (WWW) - (collection of server/services that allow users to hold and process websites so that users can view them)
WORM - a type of malicious software capable of automatically replicating itself within a system with very little user intervention
write once, read many (WORM) - (optical disc storage media which allow for writing data once, but once written, the data is permanently stored and can't be erased)
written-down value (WDV) - (the cost of a plant asset, less any accumulated depreciation or accumulated depletion)