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.
The VCE is a suite of ACC developed and owned web-based contracting tools used by its employees and their customers in the performance of their daily duties acquiring supplies and services for the US Army. VCE tools are currently being fielded across the ACC and AMC in order to provide the contracting and acquisition workforce the tools needed to perform their mission. The VCE provides standardization across the enterprise while providing ACC the oversight for all its contracting and workforce data.