Glossary Part 1
Business Terminology Quiz
Test your knowledge of essential business terms and concepts with our comprehensive quiz! Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their understanding of business language and practices.
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Taking ownership of another business. Frequently used in conjunction with the word merger, as in mergers and acquisitions.
Acquisition
Accounts receivable.
Advertising
Angel Investors
The money owed to a firm by its customers.
Acquisition
Accounts receivable.
Advertising
Angel Investors
The outright purchase of one firm by another.
Acquisition
Accounts receivable.
Advertising
Angel Investors
The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media. Not to be confused with marketing or public relations.
Angel Investors
Acquisition
Accounts receivable.
Advertising
Individuals who back emerging entrepreneurial ventures, usually as a bridge to get from the self-funded stage to the level of business that would both need and attract venture capital.
Accounts receivable.
Angel Investors
Acquisition
Advertising
A formal estimate of the value of something on the open market. It also describes how the estimation and conclusion of value was made.
Balance sheet
Barriers to entry
Barter
Appraisal
Assets
Items of value owned by a company and shown on the balance sheet, including cash, equipment, inventory, etc.
Assets
Barter
Barriers to entry
Appraisal
Balance sheet
Summary statement of a company's financial position at a given point in time, listing assets as well as liabilities.
Barriers to entry
Balance sheet
Appraisal
Assets
Barter
Conditions that create disincentives for a new firm to enter an industry (see Barringer 194).
Barriers to entry
Barter
Assets
Appraisal
Balance sheet
Direct exchange of merchandise and/or services between businesses.
Balance sheet
Appraisal
Barter
Barriers to entry
Assets
That special feature that causes consumers to pick one company’s products over another’s (aka Unique Selling points).
Basis of differentiation.
Blue-Ocean strategy
Brainstorming
Brand
Brand equity
A business strategy involving entering an untapped market - that has little or no competition. The strategy focuses on moving away from an existing market (Red Ocean) and searching for new markets (blue oceans). New markets give a company a very high competitive advantage as well as low price/cost pressure.
Brainstorming
Basis of differentiation.
Brand equity
Brand
Blue-Ocean strategy
A technique used to quickly generate a large number of ideas and solutions to problems; conducted to generate ideas that might represent product or business opportunities.
Brainstorming
Basis of differentiation.
Brand equity
Brand
Blue-Ocean strategy
The set of attributes—positive or negative—that people associate with a company.
Brand equity
Brand
Blue-Ocean strategy
Brainstorming
Basis of differentiation.
The set of assets and liabilities that is linked to a brand and enables it to raise a firm’s valuation. However, the overall commercial value also derives from consumer perception of the brand name of a particular product or service, rather than from the product or service itself.
Brand equity
Brand
Blue-Ocean strategy
Brainstorming
Basis of differentiation.
A program that protects the image and value of an organization’s brand in consumers’ minds.
Brand management
Break-even point
Budgets
Burn rate
Business angels
The point where total revenue received equals total costs associated with the output.
Brand management
Burn rate
Break-even point
Business angels
Budgets
Itemized forecasts of a company’s income, expenses, and capital needs that are also important tools for financial planning and control.
Business angels
Budgets
Break-even point
Brand management
Burn rate
The rate at which a company is spending its capital until it reaches profitability.
Business angels
Budgets
Break-even point
Brand management
Burn rate
Individuals who invest their personal capital directly in new ventures (aka Angel Investors).
Brand management
Break-even point
Budgets
Business angels
Burn rate
Relating to the sale of a product for any use other than personal consumption. The buyer may be a manufacturer, a reseller, a government body, a non-profit-making institution, or any organisation other than an ultimate consumer.
BRB (Business to Business)
BRC (Business to Consumer)
Business Incubator
Business format franchise
Business model
Relating to the sale of product for personal consumption. The buyer may be an individual, family or other group, buying to use the product themselves, or for end use by another individual.
Business format franchise
BRC (Business to Consumer)
BRB (Business to Business)
Business model
Business Incubator
Provides workspace, coaching, and support services to entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses.
Business Incubator
BRB (Business to Business)
Business model
Business format franchise
BRC (Business to Consumer)
By far the most popular approach to franchising in which the franchisor provides a formula for doing business to the franchisee along with training, advertising, and other forms of assistance.
Business format franchise
BRC (Business to Consumer)
Business model
BRB (Business to Business)
Business Incubator
The plan implemented by a company to generate revenue and make a profit from operations
BRB (Business to Business)
Business format franchise
Business Incubator
Business model
BRC (Business to Consumer)
An individual or company who has some degree of involvement with another entity’s business dealings.
Business partner
Business plan
Business resources
Business Valuation
Capital
Written document detailing a proposed venture, covering current status, expected needs, and projected results for the enterprise. It contains a thorough analysis of the product or service being offered, the market and competition, the marketing strategy, the operating plan, and the management as well as profit, balance sheet, and cash flow projections.
Business resources
Business Valuation
Business partner
Business plan
Capital
Human, financial, physical and knowledge factors that provide a firm the means to perform its business processes.
Business resources
Business Valuation
Business partner
Business plan
Capital
An estimate of the worth of a business entity and its assets
Business resources
Business Valuation
Business partner
Business plan
Capital
Cash or goods used to generate income. For entrepreneurs, capital often refers to the funds and other assets invested in the business venture.
Business resources
Business Valuation
Business partner
Business plan
Capital
Amounts spent to acquire or improve assets with useful lives of more than one year.
Capital expenditures
Cash flow statement
Channels
Code of conduct.
Competitive analysis grid / matrix
A summary of a company's cash flow over a period of time.
Capital expenditures
Cash flow statement
Channels
Code of conduct.
Competitive analysis grid / matrix
Means employed to distribute goods or services from producers to customers
Capital expenditures
Cash flow statement
Channels
Code of conduct.
Competitive analysis grid / matrix
A formal statement of an organization’s values on certain ethical and social issues.
Capital expenditures
Cash flow statement
Channels
Code of conduct.
Competitive analysis grid / matrix
A tool for organizing the information a firm collects about its competitors to see how it stacks up against its competitors, provide ideas for markets to pursue, and identify its primary sources of competitive advantage.
Capital expenditures
Cash flow statement
Channels
Code of conduct.
Competitive analysis grid / matrix
A detailed evaluation of a firm’s direct, indirect, and future competitors
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
A representation of the product or service to prospective users to gauge customer interest, desirability, and purchase intent.
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
A form of Network Marketing in which the distributors are all also consumers, I.e., they must also buy the product for their personal use.
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
Is a form of protection for published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works that have been fixed in a tangible or material form.
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
A unique skill or capability that transcends products or markets, makes a significant contribution to the customer’s perceived benefit, is difficult to imitate, and serves as a source of a firm’s competitive advantage over its rivals.
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
Behavior orientation exhibited by established firms with an entrepreneurial emphasis that is proactive, innovative, and risk taking.
Competitor analysis.
Concept test.
Consumer Direct Marketing
Copyright
Core competency.
Corporate entrepreneurship.
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