Hi everyone, my name is Alexandre Séguin, and I have created a glossary about Business Valuators, because it's one of my possible fields of study. I've been studying Business Management since August 2020 and will have to stay for another two years. I wanted to do this glossary to help future business valuators to speak well in English. To learn more about it, I would strongly recommend that you to read the glossary, the definitions of each word and to listen to the word for the pronunciation.
analysis
noun
Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.
Example: In the absence of prey, the predator population has nothing to feed off and will die out. 2.2 Stability analysis Let us now study the stability of the whole system we have modeled.
fr: analyse
asset
noun
Property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
Example: In reality, firm's hold risky as well as risk less debt and assuming a debt beta of 0 would not provide an accurate estimation of the firm's asset beta.
fr: actif
business
noun
A business is defined as an organization or enterprising entity engaged in commercial, industrial, or professional activities.
Example: Mrs said the most significant problem was coughing throughout the night, and being tired the next day. Otherwise, the only issue regarding CF at school is taking his Creon tablets at lunchtimes. Before was born, Mrs was a hairdresser who ran her own business father works for a large car manufacturer in the Midlands.
fr: affaires
capital
noun
Capital is a broad term that can describe anything that confers value or benefit to its owner, such as a factory and its machinery, intellectual property like patents, or the financial assets of a business or an individual.
Example: Those whose property had a capital value of less than 11,000 asses fell into the lowest class, and formed a single century that were exempted from military service.
fr: capitale
cash flow
noun
Cash flows are the net amount of cash and cash-equivalents being transferred into and out of a business. Cash received are inflows, and money spent are outflows.
Example: This occurs when there is an inadequate cash flow, shrinking market and takeovers by acquisition-minded firms.
fr: flux de trésorerie
company
noun
A company is a legal entity formed by a group of individuals to engage in and operate a business—commercial or industrial—enterprise.
Example: For the company founders Craig White and Linda Farrow, the delivery of sustainable building design was the key interest and the cornerstone of their business strategy.
fr: compagnie
corporate
adjective
Relating to a corporation, especially a large company or group.
Example: Encourage, motivate, reward and provide flexibility to the team Another approach is to get company's permission to ignore office standards, conventions, bureaucratic paperwork (maybe even time-consuming QA paper work but subjected to careful review), or any other corporate demands in a focused attempt to get the job done correctly.
fr: entreprise
earnings
noun
Money obtained in return for labor or services.
Example: The gentry was only symbolically waged by the central government, and obtained the main part of their earnings through unauthorized taxes and bribes., Thus, they were essentially free to collect whatever tax they preferred.
fr: gains
estimate
verb
Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
Example: I have chosen to estimate my regression using secondary school enrollment as a proxy for human capital investment, and since this is a flow variable I can use the average value over the chosen time period.
fr: estimation
finance
noun
Finance is a term for matters regarding the management, creation, and study of money and investments.
Example: The main issues are Marketing, IPR, finance, and Innovation.
fr: finance
merge
verb
Combine or cause combining to form a single entity.
Example: After the MCA merger in 2000, the EU allowed Sony and BMG to merge in 2004, and EMI, Warner Music, Sony and Bertelsmann are currently seeking approval for new planned mergers.
fr: fusionner
operations
noun
The administration of business practices creating the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization.
Example: On the other hand, managers involved in the day-to-day operations of the firm might choose to maximize their individual utility.
fr: opérations
ownership
noun
The act, state, or right of possessing something.
Example: A study that I found fascinating was the one conducted by Kruger in 1991 8 titled "ownership's, agency, and wages: An examination of franchising in the fast food industry."
fr: possession
professional
adjective
Professional means, to relate to a person's work, especially work that requires special training.
Example: This sense was increased by the support of the emperors, and for example "Augustus honored all sorts of professional entertainers by his friendly interest in them; maintained, and even increased, the privileges enjoyed by athletes; banned gladiatorial contests if the defeated fighter were forbidden to plead for mercy."
fr: professionnel
sale
noun
A sale is a transaction between two or more parties in which the buyer receives tangible or intangible goods, services, or assets in exchange for money.
Example: Sales are susceptible to change in consumer demand, changes a competitor pricing and an array of other external factors, meaning production may not always equal sale levels.
fr: vente
sell
verb
Give or hand over (something) in exchange for money.
Example: When government spending increases and leads to increase domestic money supply, the central bank has to sell foreign reserves in order to buy domestic money such that total money in the economy remains the same.
fr: vendre
shares
noun
One of the equal parts into which a company's capital is divided, entitling the holder to a proportion of the profits.
Example: It is no coincidence that his protagonist shares his birth date of 1812 as well as initials.
fr: actions
taxation
noun
Taxation is a term for when a taxing authority, usually a government, levies or imposes a financial obligation on its citizens or residents.
Example: His proposals are morally sound, yet to put them into practice would require a complete practical and ideological overhaul of a system which deplores taxation and dependence on a 'nanny state.'
fr: Imposition
value
noun
The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
Example: A major problem with acquisition is the high requirement of capital, which in turn needs wide research of acquisition target and the prospects available in order to value accurately the risk involved.
fr: valeur
worth
adjective
Equivalent in value to the sum or item specified.
Example: It is worth mentioning, however, that this supporting evidence is to a large extent consistent with the club convergence hypothesis as well.