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LAP Sm-007 Nature of Business Plan
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accounting | Process of keeping and interpreting financial records |
| Appendix | Segment added to the end of a document |
| Balance Sheet | Financial statement that captures the financial donation of the business |
| Barrier Entry | Anything that blocks that way to enter a particular market |
| Bottom Lin | Net Income |
| Business Model | Company's Method for making money |
| Business Plan | Company's blueprint for success; shows how the business works now and how it is intended to work for the future |
| Business Structure | Company's configuration of employees for accomplishing specific business tasks |
| Capital Investment | Amount of money the business has invested in its good and property |
| Capital Structure | Organization of the influx and outflow of the businesses money |
| Cash Flow | Movement of funds into and out of a business |
| Cost estimate | Ball-Park figure of how much will be spent on a given activity |
| Equity | Assists minus liabilities: Stockholders, Net worth |
| Executive Summary | The most important part of a company's business plan because it gives and overview of the document |
| Finance | Process of obtaining funds and using them to achieve success |
| Financial Plan | Part of a company's business plan that shows how the business has performed |
| Financial Resources | All the resources of money available to a business or project |
| Financial Costs | Funding a business activity or project |
| Fixed Assists | Items of value a business own that are not expected to change |
| Funding | Money available to a business from one or more resources |
| Human Resources | People who work to produce products or services |
| Income Statement | Financial summary that shows how much money the business had made over a period of time |
| Letter of Intent | Document communicating what a person or business intends to do over a period of time |
| Liabiliites | Responsibilities of the business |
| Life Cycle | Stages through which goods and services move from the time they are introduced |
| Management | Process of coordinating resources in order to accomplish a goal |
| Market Analysis | Systematic study of the market |
| Market Position | Rank of a particular business in a specific market |
| Marketing | Organizational function and set of process for creating communicating and deliver value to the customer |
| Marketing Plan | Set of procedures or strategies for attracting the target customer to a business |
| Niche | Small Segment of the total market interested in a subject |
| Operations | Day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning |
| Physical Development | Efforts involved in the creation of a new product |
| Product Promotion | Type of promotion that aims to persuade consumers to buy a good or service |
| Profit | Monetary reward a business owner receives for taking the risk involved in investing in a business |
| Resources | Any item that is used to accomplish another activity |
| Return on equity | Financial ratio calculated by dividing net income by book value |
| Return on investment | Financial ratio calculated by dividing net profit by investment |
| Risk Management Plan | Business document that involves the planning , controlling and procedures involved in limited business loss |
| Royalties | Percentage of actual sales that a licensee pays to a licensor |
| Sales Volume | Amount of a firms sales |
| Strategic Plan | Long range plan for the company as a whole |
| Strategy | Plan of action for achieving goals and objective |
| Table of contents | Portion of document in which the sections are listed with the page number |
| Target market | Particular group of customers a business seeks to attract |
| Third party agreement | Legal or finacial agreements between two companies |
| Venture | Business or business project |