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301 Key Term
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 and 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 borrowed 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' (o 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 the 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 | 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 of 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 and individual for specific time period that is repayable with interest. |