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1.01 Key Terms
business management
Term | Definition |
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Accounting | The process of keeping and interpreting financial records |
Administrative Services | A career area in which employees facilitate business operations through a variety of administrative and clerical and duties, in |
Banking Services | A career area in which employees are primary concerned with accepting deposits, lending funds, and extending credit to bank customers |
Business information management | An umbrella term covering those careers that provide a bridge between business process/initiatives and IT (information technology) |
Corporate finance | A function in a company that manages policy and strategy for (and the implementation of) capital structure, budgeting, acquisition and investment, financial modeling and planning, funding, dividends, and taxation |
Creativity | The ability to generate unique ideas, approaches, and solutions |
Enthusiasm | Intense interest or excitement |
Finance | The process of obtaining funds and using them to archive the goals of the business |
Flexibility | The ability to adapt to changes as they occur |
General Management | A career area in which employees focus on planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating part or all of a business organization through the allocation and use of financial, human, and material resources |
Human resource management | A career area in which employees focus on the staffing activities that involve planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and safety of employees |
Insurance | A contractual agreement in which one company (insurer) will pay for specified losses incurred by the other company (insured) in retunr for installment payment (premium) |
Marketing | An organization function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customers relations in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholder |
Maerketing communications | A career area in which employees focus on marketing activities that inform, remind, and/or persuade the targeted audience of ideas, experiences, goods/services management, promotion, and sellinf |
Marketing management | A career area in which employees focus on all marketing functions, including channel management, marketing information management, pricing, product/services management, promotion and selling |
Marketing research | A career that involves the systematic gathering, recording, and analyzing of data about problems relating to the marketing of goods and services |
Merchandising | The process of having the right goods in the right place at the right time in order to make a profit |
Operation management | A career area in which employees focus on planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling the resources needed to produce/provide a businesses goods and/oe services |
Securities and investments industry | The total of businesses consisting pf brokerage firms, investment banks, and stock exchange, all of which support the flow of funds from investors to companies and institutions |
Self confidence | A positive belief in your own talents, skills, and objectives |
Selling | A marketing function that involves determining client need and want and responding through planned, personalized communicating that influences purchases decisions and enhances future business opportunities |
Trustworthiness | Reliability; the quality of deserving others confidence |