My full name is Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. My name refers to a specific set of guidelines that have been established to help publicly-traded companies create their financial statements. Publicly-traded companies are companies that have made stock in their organization available for sale to the public.
Bond Rating. Rating agencies grade bonds on a letter scale that indicates credit worthiness and risk. In simplest terms, the lower the letter scale, the lower the quality and the higher risk potential: AAA or triple A rating â indicates the highest-quality bonds that offer the highest protection for principal and interest payments; A or single A rating â indicates good to medium-grade bonds; BBB or triple B rating â indicates medium-grade quality bonds, with adequate protection; Below triple B is considered speculative, high-risk securities and the category is referred to as junk bonds.
  HB refers to the hardness of the pencil. In the scale H is used for harder pencils (H for hard) HH HHH HHHH all get progressively harder, and B (the B stands for black) â¦ BB BBB BBBB get progressively softer. HB pencils (#2 on the US pencil-hardness scale) are right in the middle, so the HB stands for Hard Black.f you mean what HB stands for, it's an indicator for the hardness (H) or softness (B) of the graphite and clay used. However, the B is for blackness so HB is like average/m â¦ edium grade so the full form would be Hard Black, Hard and Black, or Hard Blackness.