Cochlear 2007 Annual Report
 
Glossary
  Glossary

Glossary

AIFRS
 
Australian equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards.
AGM
 
Annual General Meeting.
ASIC
 
Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
ASX
 
Australian Securities Exchange.
Binaural hearing
 
Hearing with both ears.
BTE
 
Behind-the-ear speech processor.
Channel/Multi-channel
 
Pairs of electrodes that stimulate the cochlea. A multi-channel implant that has multiple pairs of electrodes that give implant recipients more options for choosing the most responsive hearing nerve fibres, providing richer pitch information and improving hearing in noisy environments.
DACS
 
Direct acoustic cochlear stimulator.
EAS
 
Electro-acoustic stimulation.
ERP
 
Enterprise resource planning.
F05
 
Financial Year 2005: 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005.
F06
 
Financial Year 2006: 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.
F07
 
Financial Year 2007: 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007.
F08
 
Financial Year 2008: 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008.
MAP
 
The term used to describe an individual’s “listening program”. It is stored in the memory of the speech processor and tells the implant how to activate electrodes in the array depending on the incoming signal.
Previous GAAP
 
Previous Australian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Processor/speech processor
 
The externally worn part of the cochlear implant system.
R&D
 
Research and development.
SmartSound
 
Set of sound processing algorithms which enhance hearing performance.
TSR
 
Total shareholder return.

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