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BE 301
Business Essentials
| 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 says a governing body or corporation will borrow an investor's money at a particular interest rate for a particular time period |
| 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 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 you plan to fulfill |
| Human resources management | The process of accessing, processing, maintaining ,evaluating, and disseminating |
| Interest | the reward or cost 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 a specific time period that is repayable with interest |
| Manager | individual whose job involves planning, organizing ,staffing, directing, and controlling for a business |
| Manufacturing | Changing the shapes or forms of material so that they will be useful to consumers |
| Marketing | The process of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for costumers, 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 |
| Non-profit business | Business or organization whose intent is to make enough money to support its mission |
| Offshoring | Producing goods in foreign countries |
| Operations | The day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning |
| Oreintations | job preparation or induction training in which new employees are acquainted with their surrounding, receive general information about their jobs |
| Outsourcing | Acquiring assistance from outside organizations/ consultants to perform primary business activities |
| Overhead |