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BE 301
Business Essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Angel Invetsor | Someone who provides moeny 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 corparation will borrow an investors money at a particular intrest rate for a particular time period |
| Business | An organized effort to produced and or distribute goods and services |
| Credit rating | The score assigned to a borrower based on previoud loans |
| DataBase | A virtual storage unit for information |
| Debt | Money businesess or individuals owe to eachother |
| Equity | assests minus liabilities, also known as stockholders equity, bookvalue, and net worth |
| Executives | Top-level employees |
| Exspenses | The moeny that businesses spends |
| Financial analysis | The process of planning, maintaining, monitoring, controlling and reportiing the use of financial resources |
| Financial Records | Documents containig 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 whos overall purpose is to learn a profit |
| Goal | An ob objective or want that you plan to fufill |
| Human Resources | People who work to produce goods and serviuces |
| Human resources managemant | The process of leading, staffing, and planning the employees of a business |
| income | The moeny receivced by resources owners and by producers fro supllying goods and services to consumers |
| Information Managment | The process of accesing, processing, maintaining evakuating and dissminating business knowledge facts or data |
| Intrest | the reward or cost of lendinf or borrowing money, usually figured a s 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 offical statement of job duties an employee must perform |
| Loan | a sum of money lent to a business or individual for a specific time period that is repayable with interest |
| manager | Individula whos 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 communincating delivering and exchaning offerings that have value for customers clients partners and society at large |
| Merger | two individual busineses that combine to form one organization |
| Mission | A brief summary of what a bussiness owner wants a business to be doing |
| Non-profit Business | Business or organization whose intent is to make enough money to support its mission |
| Offshoring | Producings goods in foreign contries |
| Opertaions | The day-to-day activities required for continued bussines functions |
| outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outisde consultants to perform primary business activities |
| overhead | Business exspenses For things such as oayroll, rent, and utilities |
| production | The proces or activity of producing goods and services |
| Purchasing | The process of acquring goods and services neccesary to keep production going and to acomplish busines goals |
| Quality Control | Ensuring the degree of excellence of a good or service |
| Recruitng | seeking out and attracting qualified potntial employees |
| Resource | Flight any item that is used to accomplish another activity, such as producing providing goods and services |
| revenues | Salesor gross income |
| stratgic management | KW process of planning, controlling, and organizing an organization or department |
| Strategic position | How a business measures up in a 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 | employee who oversees the 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 | Investing money used for new business opportunities |
| Virtual services | Services provided through a medium of communication such as the Internet rather in person |
| Vision | Hey summary of what a business owner wants a business to become |