Korean slang profile
시에프오
siepeuo
Officer overseeing finance and accounting
An abbreviated job title for the officer responsible for a company’s finance and accounting work.
- Expanded form
- Chief of Finance OfficerChief of Finance Officer
- Other spellings
- CFO
- Earliest source found
- Dec 31, 2000
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
시에프오가 회계 현황을 보고했다.
The 시에프오 reported the accounting situation.
02Documented history
- 2000The 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』 lists the spelling and meaning of “시에프오”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
This expression was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2000년 신어』. The expanded form or corresponding name given by the collection is “Chief of Finance Officer”. The first coiner and actual first use have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The original gives Chief of Finance Officer. It was not arbitrarily replaced with a different modern English expansion; this is limited to the finance and accounting role of the time.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2000년 신어, 본문 187쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 31, 2000Original source checked Nov 15, 2026