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Auburn University
Auburn University: public land-, sea-, and space-grant R1 university in Auburn, Alabama, founded 1856 as East Alabama Male College; 35,733 students in fall 2026, 21st president Christopher B. Roberts, SEC charter member.
Auckland Girls' Grammar School
Auckland Girls' Grammar School (AGGS) is a state girls' secondary school in Howe Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, institution number 53. Girls joined the boys' grammar in 1888; the school moved to Howe Street in 1909 under first headmistress Annie Whitelaw.
Auckland Grammar School
Auckland Grammar School is a state boys' secondary school (Years 9-13) in Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, endowed by Sir George Grey in 1850 and opened in 1869, offering both NCEA and Cambridge International qualifications.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is the scholarly book publisher of the University of Auckland. Founded in 1966, it publishes about twenty books a year in history, poetry, and te reo Māori.
Auction
An auction is a market mechanism that sells an item to the highest competitive bidder under explicit rules, with formats including English, Dutch, and sealed-bid.
Auction theory
Auction theory is the branch of economics that studies bidding strategies and auction formats, recognized by the 2020 Nobel prize awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson.
Auda Abu Tayi
Auda Abu Tayi (عودة أبو تايه) was the paramount sheikh of the Abu Tayi section of the Howeitat Bedouin, who joined the Arab Revolt in 1917 and led the capture of Aqaba from the Ottomans.
Audacious Ventures
Audacious Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in April 2020 by former Lightspeed partner Nakul Mandan, investing at pre-seed and seed stage in B2B software companies.
Audax Group
Audax Group is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on the US middle market, founded in 1999 by Bain Capital veterans Geoffrey Rehnert and Marc Wolpow.
Audax Senior Loan Fund I, L.P.
Audax Senior Loan Fund I, L.P. is a senior loan fund within Audax Private Debt, the private credit platform of Audax Group, lending to U.S. middle market companies.
Audentes Therapeutics
Audentes Therapeutics was a clinical-stage San Francisco biotechnology company developing AAV gene therapies for rare single-gene diseases, acquired by Astellas Pharma for about $3 billion in 2020.
Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy (1924–1971) was the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, earning the Medal of Honor at Holtzwihr, France, then a Hollywood career in 44 films including To Hell and Back, and later advocating for veterans with PTSD.
Audience (TV network)
Audience Network, also called AT&T Audience Network, was a commercial-free American pay TV channel owned by AT&T that aired original series like Mr. Mercedes before closing in 2020.
Audiencia of Charcas
The Audiencia of Charcas, or Real Audiencia de Charcas, was a Spanish royal court for Upper Peru, created in 1559 and seated at La Plata, today Sucre, Bolivia.
Audiencia of Chile
The Audiencia of Chile, or Real Audiencia de Chile, was the Spanish crown's highest royal court in colonial Chile, created in 1565 and suppressed in 1811.
Audiencia of Guadalajara
The Audiencia of Guadalajara, or Real Audiencia de Guadalajara, was the highest Spanish royal tribunal of the Kingdom of New Galicia, from 1548 to 1821.
Audiencia of Lima
The Audiencia of Lima (Real Audiencia de Lima) was a superior court of justice in the Viceroyalty of Peru, seated at Lima and established in 1544.
Audiencia of Mexico
The Audiencia of Mexico, or Real Audiencia de México, was the Spanish Crown's high court and governing tribunal for New Spain, created in 1527 to replace Hernán Cortés's rule.
Audiencia of Quito
The Audiencia of Quito was a Spanish colonial tribunal created by Felipe II in 1563, governing territory far beyond present-day Ecuador until its suppression in 1717.
Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogotá
The Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogotá, or Real Audiencia de Santafé de Bogotá, was a Spanish royal court established in 1550 at Bogotá, lasting until 1821.
Audiencia of Santo Domingo
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo (Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo) was the first royal high court the Spanish Crown established in the Americas, founded in 1511.
Audio-lingual method
The audio-lingual method (ALM), or Army Method, is a 1940s US foreign language teaching method based on structural linguistics and behaviorism, using dialogues, pattern drills, and language labs; it dominated the 1950s-1960s and declined after Chomsky's critique of behaviorism.
Audiovisual education
Audiovisual education: instruction using sight-and-sound materials such as film, radio, television, and computers. Also called multimedia learning research, grounded in Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning with dual channels, limited capacity, and active processing.
Audit
An audit is an examination of an organization's financial statements giving reasonable assurance they are free of material misstatement, whether from error or fraud, ending in an auditor's opinion.
Audit bureau of circulations
An audit bureau of circulations is an independent organization that tabulates and certifies magazine and newspaper circulation figures, letting advertisers rely on them when buying ad space.
Audit committee
An audit committee is a committee of a company's board of directors that oversees financial reporting and audits, appointing and supervising the independent auditor; if none exists, the whole board serves.
Audit evidence
Audit evidence is all the information an auditor uses to reach the conclusions behind the audit opinion, tested for sufficiency, meaning quantity, and appropriateness, meaning quality.
Audit risk
Audit risk is the risk that an auditor expresses an inappropriate opinion when financial statements are materially misstated; it can be reduced but never eliminated.
Audit sampling
Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items in a balance or transaction class, using statistical or non-statistical methods.
Auditing (Scientology)
Auditing, also known as Scientology auditing, is the central religious practice of Scientology: an auditor asks a preclear specifically worded questions while monitoring responses on an E-meter.