ISA
(accounting) , one of a set of professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information issued by the IAASB.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(accounting) , one of a set of professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information issued by the IAASB.
Everyone has their own way of explaining it. The ISA is the bridge, or the interface, between the hardware and the software. Or it’s the blueprint. Or it’s the computer’s DNA. These are helpful enough, as is the common comparison of an I…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, finance) , a financial account for investment with special tax rules.
They have come to think of the universities, the civil service, and the media – the old Althusserian ISAs – with its orthodoxy of egalitarianism, democracy and social constructionism, as the Cathedral; a quasi-religious structure that fu…
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(computing) , an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.
If this compromised the expedition, it wasn’t exactly a shock – corporate sponsorship always seemed to lurk in the small print, and ISA had been authorising seafloor surveys for years.
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