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3.01 Vocabulary
Business Activities
Term | Definition |
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Goals | Something you set so you get things done |
Mission | The process of doing a goal |
Business | Something that operates to make a profit |
Resources | Produce goods and services |
Business activities | Actions taken by businesses to generate profits or to reach financial goals |
Profits | getting something, reward |
Production | The process of combining various material inputs and immaterial inputs plans knowledge in order to make something for consumption |
Financial analysis | The process of planing mantaining monitoring contolling and reporting the use of financial resources |
Overhead | Whatever it takes to run the business |
Financing | From venture capital debt and equity |
Angle investors | put them into startup business to get them off the ground |
Debt | You owe something to someone |
Equity | What the business owns or controls minus debt |
Accounting | Keeping accurate and useful financial records |
Human resources management | Is the process of planning staff leading and organizing employees |
Information management | is the process of accessing processing maintaining evaluating and disseminating business knowledge facts or data |
Marketing | is the process of creating communicating delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customer clients partners and society at large. |
Operations | are the day to day activities required for continued business functioning |
Manufacturing | “makes” the good, and then distributes the good to a warehouse or other holding facility. |
Quality control | means ensuring that the product meets predetermined standards. |
Purchasing | refers to a business acquiring the goods and services it needs to keep production going and to accomplish its business goals |
Inventory management | involves overseeing and controlling the number of finished products the business has available for sale. |
Strategic management | is the process of planning controlling and organizing an organization or department |
Tactics | Organizing spells out how the business should be set up to meet its objectives. If the business's plans change then strategies and tactics will likely change too. |
Revenues | involves overseeing and controlling the number of finished products the business has available for sale. |
Credit rating | a measurement of a person or business entity's ability to repay a financial obligation based on income and past repayment histories |
Job Descriptions | New task and possibly new processes will be involved, new methods of managing information may be required. |
Outsourcing | involves using outside organizations or consultants to perform one or more of the primary business activities. |
A Virtual Service | is one that is offered through a mdium of communication, (such as the internet) not just one person |
Merger | Between two large businesses the goals of the two businesses change as he two ocmpanies become one. |
Human resources | All of them regular employees businesses usually require supervisors managers and executives |
Recruiting | Apporopriate employees |
orienting | new employees to there job |
Supervsors | someone who watches someone do there job so they make sure they do it right |
Managers | they can manage multiple things, the business, sales manager |
executives | they are executive they are like the boss of the operation, they make plans |