The business field of study deals with the principles of business, management, and economics. It combines all the elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies, human resource management, and operations.
budget
noun
An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time
Example: Tony McDonald, head teacher at Camp Hill, is facing a pounds 46,000 BUDGET deficit and the loss of three out of 10 teaching staff.
en: Budget
cashflow
noun
the total amount of money being transferred into and out of a business, especially as affecting liquidity
Example: Their healthy CASHFLOW allows them to keep expanding their business worldwide.
en: des flux de trésorerie
consumer law
noun
Consumer law refers to laws that prevent businesses from treating their customers unfairly
en: droit de la consommation
customer
noun
a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
Example: Pearson's correlation As an additional and final point it should be added, that for the whole investigated sample, the factors most strongly and positively correlated with the spending on organic foods were household size, annual income and CUSTOMER's age.
en: client/cliente
distribution
noun
the action or process of supplying goods to stores and other businesses that sell to consumers
Example: The Institute Of grocery DISTRIBUTION (1990) A statistical digest of the UK grocery industry supply chain.
en: distribution
efficiency
noun
the state or quality of being efficient.
Example: Trade policy and marketing policies The creation of parastatals led to public sector inefficiencies because as enterprises they did not place much emphasis on EFFICIENCY.
en: efficacité
elasticity
noun
the degree to which a demand or supply is sensitive to changes in price or income.
Example: It is an average over a range of price and gives an estimate of the price ELASTICITY of demand between two points on the demand curve.
en: élasticité
fiscal year
noun
a year as reckoned for taxing or accounting purposes.
Example: The share capital consolidation with new share nominal value of 112p further reduces the number of ordinary shares from 739m to 622m at the end of the FISCAL YEAR, and consequently, a higher earning per share occurs.
en: année/exercice fiscale
human ressources
noun
the department of a business or organization that deals with the hiring, administration, and training of personnel
Example: our core skills are in building pan-European businesses and managing human resources"
en: ressources humaines
innovation
noun
the action or process of innovating; a new method, idea, product, etc.
Example: Since the definition of INNOVATION is understood, two models of INNOVATION will be presented in the coming sections.
en: innovation
inventory
noun
a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building.
Example: If the user decides to pick up the object, it is added to their INVENTORY.
en: inventaire
logistics
noun
the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies.
Example: The other group includes the posts that are more servile in nature; in other words they would not have come into contact with the LOGISTICS at all, such as God's Fathers and Copyists.
en: logistique
market
noun
an area or arena in which commercial dealings are conducted
Example: For my product to become preferable, it must stand out in the MARKET, either as value added, or good value.
en: marché
marketing
noun
the activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.
Example: Functional Level Strategy Formulation MARKETING - The farm will need to advertise the newly renovated stables in suitable locations e.g. tack shop, feed merchant.
en: commercialisation
offer/demand
noun
offer: an expression of readiness to do or give something if desired
demand: an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right.
en: offre / demande
percentages
noun
a rate, number, or amount in each hundred.
Example: For example for the [ ]
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variable the relative PERCENTAGES (% = use of non-standard forms) were MMC - 31%, LMC - 42%, UWC - 87%, MWC - 95%, LWC - 100%.
en: pourcentages
projection
noun
an estimate or forecast of a future situation or trend based on a study of present ones
Example: The direct sum of two vector bundles over the base space is the vector bundle with total space and a PROJECTION .
en: projection
public relations
noun
the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organization or a famous person
Example: Additionally, affiliates also use search engine optimization which may make it difficult for retailers to appear in the natural listings of a search engine as they are constrained on site design (Chaffey, 2004). 5 Online PUBLIC RELATIONS (PR) 5.1 The importance of online PR More and more business owners are putting much effort on having an good online presence by paying huge sums of money on search engines, PPC and other online communicating strategies, but a few realize the importance of online PR.
en: relations publiques
remuneration
noun
money paid for work or a service
Example: It will be a fix REMUNERATION (per year) with a performance based bonus at the end of the year.
en: rémunération
supply chain
noun
the sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution of a commodity
Example: This must be achieved in a process integration scenario as we move towards the Seamless SUPPLY CHAIN (SSC) in which all "players" think and act as one (Towill, 1997). The personal computer SUPPLY CHAIN The challenge to SUPPLY CHAIN management is to seek to develop "lean" strategies up to the material decoupling point but "agile" strategies beyond that point.
