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301 Key Term
Business Activities
| 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 investor'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 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 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 spends |
| For-profit business: | An objective or want that you plan to fulfill |
| Goal: | People who work to produce goods and services |
| Human resources: | The process of planning, staffing, leading, and organizing the employees of the business |
| Human resources management; | The money received by resource owners and producers of supplying goods and services to consumers |
| Income: | The process of accessing, processing, maintaining, evaluating and disseminating business knowledge, facts or data |
| Information management: | The reward or cost of lending or borrowing money, usually figured as a percentage of the amount |
| Interest: | The process of supervising and controlling the number of finished products a company has in stock |
| Inventory management: | The official statement of job duties an employee must perform |
| Job description: | A sum of money lent to a business or an individual for a specific time period that is repayable with interest |
| 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 or forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers |
| Marketing: | The process of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchange 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 |
| Operation: | The day-to-day activates required for continued business functioning |
| Orientations: | 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 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 service |
| 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 service |
| Recruiting: | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
| Resource: | Any time that is used to accomplish another activity, such as producing/providing goods and service |
| Revenues: | Sales or gross income |
| Strategic management | The process of planning, controlling, and organizing and organization or department |
| Strategic position: | How a business measures up in relation to other business in the industries; can involve the image or impression of a business of a business or organization |
| Strategies: | Plans of action of 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 in money used for new business opportunities |
| Virtual services: | Services provided through medium of communication (such as the internet rather in person) |
| Vision: | A summary of what a business owner wants business to become |
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