Abstract. We introduce the concept of left APP-rings which is a generalization of left p.q.-Baer rings and right PP-rings, and investigate its properties. It is shown that the APP property is inherited by polynomial extensions and is a Morita invariant property.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 16D40.1. Introduction. Throughout this paper, R denotes a ring with unity. Recall that R is (quasi-) Baer if the right annihilator of every nonempty subset (every right ideal) of R is generated by an idempotent of R. In 2. Left APP-rings. An ideal I of R is said to be right s-unital if, for each a ∈ I there exists an element x ∈ I such that ax = a. Note that if I and J are right s-unital ideals, then so is I ∩ J (if a ∈ I ∩ J, then a ∈ aIJ ⊆ a(I ∩ J)). It follows from [22, Theorem 1] that I is right s-unital if and only if for any finitely many elements a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a n ∈ I there exists an element x ∈ I such that a i = a i x, i = 1, 2, . . . , n. A submodule N of a left R-module M is called a pure submodule if L ⊗ R N −→ L ⊗ R M is a monomorphism