Administered by the Community Associations Institute. The AMS designation is the second tier of the pyramid of professionalism for community association managers. It builds upon the CMCAâs fundamental knowledge with requirements for added education and verified experience in the field.
The use of the phrase pound sign to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. Before this time, and still outside the U.S., the term pound sign was used to refer to the pound currency symbol (Â£) or the pound weight symbol (lb). An alternative theory is that this name arose from the fact that character encodings used the same code for both the number sign and the British pound sign Â£.
Pound Sterling is also known as the British Pound, the United Kingdom Pound, UKP, STG, the English Pound, British Pound Sterling, BPS, and Sterlings. The United States Dollar is also known as the American Dollar, and the US Dollar. The symbol for GBP can be written Â£.