Accounting and management

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Amortization
Noun
A period in which a debt is reduced or paid off by regular payment.
Example: In 2003, the value of fixed asset after depreciation and amortization increased to £1,498 million, compared with £1,491 million in 2002.
fr: Amortissement
Balance Sheet
Noun
A statement of the assets, liabilities, and capital of a business or other organization at a particular point in time, detailing the balance of income and expenditure over the preceding period.
Example: The financial and business performance analysis of Bodycote will be initially based on the Consolidated Income Statement, the Consolidated balance sheet and the Consolidated Cash Flow Statement of the company.
fr: Balance
Bill
Noun
A statement of money owed for goods or services supplied.
Example: Usually costs are recognized upon delivery of a bill for materials and services.
fr: Facture
Building
Noun
A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.
Example: Foreign exchange reserves are considered as insurance in times of crisis and go a long way towards building confidence in the financial system.
fr: Bâtiment
Calculator
Noun
Something used for making mathematical calculations, in particular a small electronic device with a keyboard and a visual display.
Example: Currencies: Currency calculator.
fr: Calculatrice
Check
Noun
A check is a written, dated, and signed instrument that directs a bank to pay a specific sum of money to the bearer.
Example: Checks may be cashed or deposited
fr: Chèques
Deposit Slip
Noun
A deposit slip is a small physical form that a bank customer includes when depositing money into a bank account.
Example: A deposit slip contains the date of deposit, the name of the depositor, the depositor's account number, and the amount being deposited.
fr: Bordereau de dépôt
Goods
Noun
Merchandise or possessions.
Example: The economic model of supply and demand, developed by Antoine Augustin Cournot, 1883, attempts to describe, explain and predict changes in the price and quantity of goods sold in competitive markets.
fr: Biens, Articles
Land
Noun
An area of the earth usually inclusive of improvements, bodies of water, and natural or man-made objects and extending indefinitely upward and downward.
Example: There may be a threat of new entrants on a small scale, but given the barriers to entry (land sites are held by the largest supermarkets, sometimes with the sole purpose of preventing another from building there) and the barriers to exit, significant new entrants are unlikely Threat of Substitutes This is a more substantial threat.
fr: Terrain
ledger accounting
An accounting ledger is an account or record used to store bookkeeping entries for balance-sheet and income-statement transactions.
Example: Accounting ledger journal entries can include accounts like cash, accounts receivable, investments, inventory, accounts payable, accrued expenses, and customer deposits.
fr: Grand livre
Money
Noun
A current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively.
Example: Failure to do so will almost certainly lead to loss of productivity, money and customers- in the case of the UKPA, a failure to meet passport processing demands and deliver passports on time.
fr: Argent
Office supplies
Noun
Office supplies are consumables and equipment regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, by individuals engaged in written communications, recordkeeping or bookkeeping, janitorial and cleaning, and for storage of supplies or data.
Example: Annually, this delivery company pays bills on indirect goods and services such as office supplies, delivery carrier supplies, vehicle parts and others.
fr: Équipement de bureau
Service company
Noun
An administrative military unit concerned mainly with transportation and supply.
Example: Gutenbery Book Project, OCLC Bibliography service etc) but the feature of the "practitioner", Google is an internet searching service company whose business is based on money earning through advertisement matched with the relevant searching results.
fr: Entreprise de service
Supplier
Noun
A supplier is an entity that supplies goods and services to another organization
Example: These Regulations only apply to 'contracts concluded between a seller or a supplier and a consumer.
fr: Fournisseur
Turnover
Noun
Turnover is the total sales made by a business in a certain period. It's sometimes referred to as 'gross revenue' or 'income'.
Example: For obvious reasons high turnover rates is costly to a firm, and if one rather reasonably assumes that a worker's probability to quit are negatively associated with the real wage, it may pay off to have a higher real wage.
fr: Chiffre d'affaires