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301 key terms
Business activities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Angle investor | Someone who provides startup money to a new business |
| Asset | Anything of value that business or individual owns |
| Bond | A piece of paper ( whether real or virtual) that says a governing body or corporation will borrow an investor's money at a particular interest rate for a particular period or time |
| Business | An organized effort to produce and/or distribute goods and services |
| Credit | The arrangement by which businesses and individuals can purchase now and play later |
| credit rating | The score assigned to a borrower based on previous loans |
| database | A virtual storage unit for information |
| Debt | Money businesses or individuals owe to others |
| Equity | Assets minus liabilities; also known as stockholders' (or shareholders') equity, book value and net worth |
| Executives | Top-level employees |
| Expenses | The money that a business spends |
| Financial analysis | The process or planning, maintaining, monitoring, controlling, and reporting the use of financial resources |
| Financial records | Documents containing information related to the amount of money going into and out of financial resources |
| Financing | Funding a business activity or project through debt, equity, or venture capital |
| For-profit business | A business whose overall purpose is to learn a profit |
| Goal | An objective or want that you plan to fulfill |
| Human resources | People who work to produce goods and services |
| Human resources management | The process of planning, staffing, leading, and organizing the employees of the business |
| Income | The money received by resource owners and producers for supplying goods and services to consumers |
| Information management | The process of accessing, processing, maintaining, evaluating and disseminating business knowledge, facts, or data |
| Interest | The reward or cost of lending or borrowing money, usually figured as a percentage or the amount |
| inventory management | The process of supervising and controlling the number of finished products a company has in stock |
| Job description | The official statement of job duties an employee must perform |
| Loan | A sum of money lent to a business or an individual for a specific time period that is repayable with interest |
| Manager | An individual whose job involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling for a business |
| Manufacturing | Changing the shapes of forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers |
| Marketing | The process of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large |
| Merger | Two individual businesses that combine to form one organization |
| Mission | A brief summary of what a business owner wants a business to be doing |
| Nonprofit business | A business or organization whose intent is to make enough money to support its mission |
| Offshoring | Producing goods in foreign countries |
| Operations | The day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning |
| Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surroundings, receive general information about the company and its policies, and are given specific information about their jobs |
| Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outside organizations/consultants to perform primary business activities |
| Overhead | Business expenses for things such as payroll, rent, and utilities |
| Production | The process or activity of producing goods and services |
| Profit | Monetary reward a business owners receives for taking the risk involved in investing in a business |
| Purchasing | The process of acquiring the goods and services necessary to keep production going and to accomplish business goals |
| Quality control | Ensuring the degree of excellence of a good or service |
| Recruiting | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
| Resource | Any item that is used to accomplish another activity, such as producing/ providing goods and services |
| Revenues | Sales or gross income |
| Strategic management | The process of planning, controlling, and organizing an organization or department |
| Strategic position | How a business measures up in relation to other businesses in the industry; can involve the image or impression of a business or organization |
| Strategies | Plans of action for achieving goals and objectives |
| Supervisor | An employee who oversees other employees |
| Tactics | specific actions that will be used to carry out strategies |
| Technology | Scientific application to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives |
| Venture capital | Invested money used for new business opportunities |
| Virtual services | Services provided through a medium of communication ( such as the Internet) rather than in person |
| Vision | A summary of what a business owner wants a business to become |
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