Can someone please explain the acronym's Used on this forum?

gimpymoo

Hi.

As title.

Ive tried searching the forums to find an answer but no joy.

SOA
DFW
DFD
DCA
DPA

Sorry if they are obvious.. but I just dont "get" them

chatta

If you look at FAQ and then unoffical Moneysaving expert questions they are there.

wishiwasarichgirl

took me ages to work some of them out and i still don't know all of them.
SOA - statement of accounts, this is explained pretty well in one of the "sticky" (top) threads, its basically where you list all your incomings and outgoings per month and wait for people to rip it to shreds! :rotfl:
DFW - debt free wannabe
DFD - debt free date (ie, when u expect all your dabts to be paid off)
DCA - debt collection agency i think
DPA - debt payment agency? not sure of this one, maybe someone else can confirm?

good luck on working them all out, think some of the more regular members forget that the newbies have never come accross some of these terms before. i know you can find out if u search hard enough but the search function is a bit pants as u will find out :rolleyes: . always thought it would be nice to have some kind of appendix/index which listed all the common abbreviations although maybe this would be too big a task - i wouldn't like to be in charge of it :eek:

gimpymoo

chatta wrote:

If you look at FAQ and then unoffical Moneysaving expert questions they are there.

Excuse my ignorance, but I am unable to find the link.

Were you refering to the FAQ here:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/qas.phtml

chatta

No see the top of this page FAQ then at bottom of the FAQ there is the unoffical bit sorry I cant do links

chatta

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=35717


Ok I tried and this is it I think

And this is what I think you mean

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=397751&postcount=18

gimpymoo

Thanks very much.

homersimpson_3

SOA - statement of accounts, this is explained pretty well in one of the "sticky" (top) threads, its basically where you list all your incomings and outgoings per month and wait for people to rip it to shreds!

also include savings and amounts/apr/who debt is with
e.g. £5000- 19.9% apr- barclays credit card

lynzpower

And also ones that are used across site

OS - money saving old style board, for cheap cooking, cleaning and make do & mend

DH darling/dear husband
DS son
DSS darling step son
DD darling daughter
DW darling wife
OH other half
IR inland revenue
OR official reciever
SAR subject access request, getting your data under the data protection act
CCA consumer credit act
DWP department work pensions

there are more, these are just a couple off the top!

lotto-dreamer

That's cleared up quite a bit for me too - I was slowly working them out and have been meaning to read through the stickies properly but seem to get sidetracked rather a lot

Glad you asked that question Gimpymoo! Thanks.

MoaningMyrtle

PMSL !!!!!! myself laughing
LOL laugh out loud
IRL In Real Life
AFAIK As far as I know
IMHO In my honest opinion
ROFPMSL Rolling on the floor pi$$ing myself laughing
HTH Hope this helps

HTH!