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301 Key Term
Business Activities
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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's says a governing body or corporation will borrow an investors money at a particular practice interest rate for a particular period of time |
| business | an organized effort to produce and/or distribute goods and services |
| Credit | The arrangement by witch business an individual 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 business or individuals owes others |
| equity | Assets minus liabilities; also known as stockholder'(or shareholder) equity, book value, and net worth |
| Executives | Top-level employees |
| Expenses | The money that a business pends |
| Finical analysis | the process of planning, maintaining, monitoring, controlling and reporting the use of financial recources |
| Financial records | Documents containing information related to the amount of money going into and out of 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 a want that u plan to fulfill |
| Human recourses | 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 bye recourses owners and producers for supplying good and services to costumers |
| information management | The process of accessing, processing, maintaining, evaluating, and disseminating business knowledge, facts, or data |
| intrest | The reward or cost of lending or borrowing money, usually figured as a percentage or 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 an individual for a specific time period that is repayable with interest |
| Manager | an individual whos job involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing, an 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 offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society |
| merger | Two individual business that combine to form one organization |
| mission | A brief summary of what a business owner wants a business to be doing |
| Nonprofit | A business or organization whos intent is to make eneough money to support its mission |
| offshoring | Producing goods in foreign countries |
| operations | The day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning |
| orientation | Job preparation or induction training i witch new employees are acquainted with their surrounds, receive general information about the company and its policies, are given specific information about their jobs |
| outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outside organizations/consultants to perform primary business activities |
| overhead | Business expenses for things such as payroll, rent, and ultitlites |
| production | The process of activities of producing good 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 service |
| Recruiting | Seeking out and attracting qualified potential employees |
| resource | 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 an organization or department |
| Strategic position | how a business measures up in relation to other business 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 a new business opportunities |
| virtual services | services provided through a medium of a communication (such as the internet), rather than in person |
| vision | A summary of what a business owner wants a business to become |