The Army Officer Selection Board identifies leadership potential, and the purpose of the 44-week Commissioning Course is to develop this by expanding an Officer Cadet's character, intellect and professional skills.
For use in finance, see Reference data (financial markets). Reference data is data that defines the set of permissible values to be used by other data fields. Reference data gains in value when it is widely re-used and widely referenced. Typically, it does not change overly much in terms of definition (apart from occasional revisions). Reference data often is defined by standards organizations (such as country codes as defined in ISO 3166-1).
Reference data refers to data that is used to categorize other data within enterprise applications and databases. Reference data includes the lookup table and code table data that is found in virtually every enterprise application, such as country codes, currency codes, and industry codes.Reference data is distinct from transactional data and master data.Transactional data is the data that is produced by transactions within applications; master data is the data that represents the key business entities that participate within transactions.eference data is a key aspect of any application integration. Today, many enterprises have no centralized enterprise governance and management over reference data.