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Acronyms
Acronyms
EPS (Annual Report)
What is Earnings Per Share?
This almost accountant is the lead singer of The Rolling Stones
Who is Mick Jagger? (Mick was an avid student of finance and accounting at the London School of Economics)
This group’s hit single includes the lyrics “Everybooooooooody, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”
Who are the Backstreet Boys?
This group's first hit single included the lyrics “tell me what you want what you really really want”
Who are the Spice Girls?
This sitcom follows employees at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania
What is The Office?
AML (Annual and Sustainability Report)
What is Anti-money Laundering?
This actor played Christian Wolff, an autistic CPA, in the 2016 movie The Accountant
Who is Ben Affleck?
This fictional boy band performs the songs Soda Pop and Your Idol in a 2025 Oscar winning movie
Who are the Saja Boys?
This 1990’s American group’s best known line-up consisted of “T-Boz”, “Left Eye” and “Chilli”
Who are TLC?
Fans of this coming-of-age romantic drama are either on Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah
What is The Summer I Turned Pretty?
SASB (Sustainability Report)
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
This company, which is the largest sports brand in the world and is based in Portland, Oregon, was co-founded by an accountant
What is Nike? (Nike was co-founded by Phil Knight, who started his career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand and then Price Waterhouse)
This iconic group included two members that competed on Dancing with the Stars, and a third member that was part of an infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at a Super Bowl halftime show
Who are *NSYNC? (Lance Bass and Joey Fatone, and Justin Timberlake)
This group was formed in Houston in 1990 and has had six members in total, including one of the best-selling music artists of all time that releases music under her first name only
Who are Destiny's Child?
Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey hung out at this coffeehouse
What is Central Perk?
TLAC (Annual Report)
What is Total Loss Absorbing Capacity?
This famous American author is known for his legal thrillers, the first of which was published in 1989 and 37 of which were number-one fiction best sellers (Hint: a number of his novels have been adapted into feature films, starring Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts, among many others)
Who is John Grisham? (Grisham was a CPA and was studying to become a tax lawyer)
This K-Pop band is smooth like butter, like a criminal undercover
Who are BTS?
This group made their debut in August 2016 and are one of the best selling girl groups of all time (Hint: their fans are named BLINK)
Who are Blackpink?
This animated show is set in a world where human civilization consists of four nations named after the four classical elements: Water, Earth, Fire and Air
What is Avatar: The Last Airbender?
ERG (Sustainability Report)
What is Employee Resource Group?
This American smooth jazz saxophonist, whose stage name includes the first letter of his last name, is the one of the best-selling artists of all time with over 75-million records sold
Who is Kenny G? (Kenneth Bruce Gorelick graduated with a major in accounting and only needed to pass the CPA exam to get into practice)
A former member of this group starred in a reality show called Newlyweds with his then wife Jessica, and is now a co-host of the show Love is Blind with his wife Vanessa
Who are 98 Degrees?
Founded through the reality competition series Dream Academy in the early 2020's, this Los Angeles-based group includes members from the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland and the U.S.
Who are KATSEYE?
In this Emmy-winning comedy that first aired on Fox, the Bluth family navigates dysfunction after their patriarch is arrested
What is Arrested Development?