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The informal, shortened version of perquisite which is a benefit arising as a result of employment in addition to regular remuneration.
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A prefix meaning that currency is held in a different jurisdiction from its country of origin.
Perks are seen by some as privileges often expected historically by certain senior employees such as a company car, private health insurance, executive dining room.
 
For example eurodollar or euroyen or, more generally, eurocurrencies.
 
 
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Established by the 1992 Treaty on European Union (TEU, better known as the Maastricht treaty) the euro is the official currency of the European Union (EU).
 
The euro is used by 19 EU member states, known collectively as the 'euro zone', the other EU members having their own currencies.


== See also ==
* [[Benefit in kind]]
* [[Perquisite]]


Note that the currency takes lower case except where a capital is grammatically or stylistically required, for example, at the start of a sentence.
The ISO (three letter) currency code for the euro is EUR.
== See also ==
* [[Currency]]
* [[EONIA]]
* [[Euribor]]
* [[Eurobond]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Offshore]]
* [[euro zone]]

Revision as of 14:20, 23 October 2012

The informal, shortened version of perquisite which is a benefit arising as a result of employment in addition to regular remuneration.

Perks are seen by some as privileges often expected historically by certain senior employees such as a company car, private health insurance, executive dining room.

See also


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