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9 Business Acronyms You Need To Know

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IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. Most recently, the mass media has been concerned with the Facebook IPO. Net Operating Profit After Tax, or NOPAT, is a performance measure that reveals a company’s after-tax profit.