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Business activities
Question | Answer |
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Angel investor | Someone who provides startup money to a new business |
Asset | Anything of value that a business or individual owns |
Bond | A piece of paper (whether real or virtual) that says a governing body or corporation will borrow an inventor's money at a particular interest rate for a particular period of 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 pay later |
Credit rating | The score assigned to 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' equity book value and net worth |
Executive | Top-level employees |
Expenses | The money that a business spends |
Financial analysis | The process of 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 a business |
Financing | Funding a business activity or project through debt equity or venture capital |
For profit business | A business whose overall purpose is to earn a profit |
Goal | Am 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 resources owners and producers for supplying goods and services to consumers |
Information management | The process of accessing processing maintaining evaluating and dissemination business knowledge facts or data |
Interest | The reward or cost of leading or borrowing money usually figured as a percentage of the amount |
Inventory management | The process of supervising and controlling the number of finished products and company has in stock |
Job description | The official statement of job duties and 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 |
Management | An individual whose job involves planning organizing staffing directing and controlling for a business |
Manufacturing | Changing the shapes or forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers |
Marketing | The process of creating communicating delivering and exchanging offering that have value for consumers clients partners and society at large |
Merger | Two individuals business 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 |
Operation | The day to day activities required for continued business fuctioning |
Orientation | Job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surrounding received general information about the company and its policies are giving specific information about their jobs |
Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance form outside organization 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 owner 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 services |
Recruiting | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employee |
Resources | 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 on 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 applications 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 |