The half-noble (three shillings and four pence = 40 pence) and, two years later, the quarter-noble of one shilling and eight pence (20 pence) were also issued. These new coins were of the correct weight for the values assigned to them.
Both definitions of AFE refer to money a business or other organization spends, but that is where the similarity ends. An authorization for expenditure must be followed up by an actual cost accounting, as a project may come in under or over the authorized budget.
Definition - What does Customer Premises Equipment Device (CPE Device) mean? A customer premises equipment device (CPE device) refers to a telecommunications hardware device located on the telecommunication customer's premises. This equipment might include cable or satellite television set-top boxes, DSL or other broadband Internet routers, VoIP base stations, telephone handsets, or other customized hardware.