The process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
Example: The administration decided to cut the budget.
fr: Administration
Assets
noun
Property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
Example: In recent years, corporate brands have become enormously valuable ASSETS - companies with strong corporate brands can have market values that are more than twice their book values.
fr: Actifs
Brand
noun
A type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name.
Example: This will further increase the consumer's awareness of the BRAND and after a few periods of it being bought, purchase intentions will increase as will market share.
fr: Marque
Budget
noun
An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
Example: SEN2 is a new product, thus a BUDGET $4000 needs to be spent on advertising to make consumers aware of the product.
fr: Budget
Business
noun
The practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.
Example: The balance sheet includes the physical resources that the BUSINESS has, such as tractors and also the financial assets that the BUSINESS has gained, such as those from share holders.
fr: Entreprise
Capital
noun
Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
Example: A firm will have accepted all projects that offer a return greater than the cost of CAPITAL in such way that any other interim cash flows could only be reinvested at the cost of CAPITAL.
fr: Capital
Commerce
noun
The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
Example: Managing channels of distribution in the age of electronic COMMERCE.
fr: Commerce
Consumer
Corporation
noun
A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
Example: Personally, I think CSR is more of a complement to the shareholder approach because it will eventually increase a CORPORATION's share value, provided its CSR is done appropriately.
fr: Corporation
Industry
noun
Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.
Example: Regulations The labour laws constitute impediments to the further development of the sugar INDUSTRY as they - along with special land market regulations, and other regulations specific to the sugar INDUSTRY - lock in resources to ensure that the sugar production meets its EU quota.
fr: Industrie
Investment
noun
The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
Example: A debate over private investment in road-building.
fr: Investissement
Liabilities
noun
A thing for which someone is responsible, especially a debt or financial obligation.
Example: Current ratio relates current assets with current LIABILITIES (Current ration divided by current LIABILITIES) and provides an idea as to "efficiency of the company's operating cycle".
fr: Passif
Management
noun
The process of dealing with or controlling things or people.
Example: This is how the management teams work.
fr: Gestion
Margin
noun
The difference between the price at which a product is sold and the costs associated with making or selling the product.
Example: Also, through the open source policy with their partners, they would not charge for accessing to their licenses, together with the low price strategy, AMD come up with much lower product MARGIN (7% sometimes) (Kharif, 2002).
fr: Marge
Marketing
noun
The activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.
Example: The marketing was really efficient.
fr: Commercialisation
Produce
verb
Make or manufacture from components or raw materials.
Example: Such definition makes it clear what range of products and what kind of qualities entitle a producer to apply for legal protection for their PRODUCE- protection in the form of designations of origin, geographical indications and certificates of specific character.
fr: Produire
Production
noun
The action of making or manufacturing from components or raw materials, or the process of being so manufactured.
Example: The farm must study existing imputs into the dairy, lamb and cereal PRODUCTION systems that it already uses and see where efficiency can be improved.
fr: Production
Resource
noun
A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
Example: There is some lack of resource in the industry.
fr: Ressource
Sales
noun
A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
Example: The establishment of distribution channels is required to achieve market share and product SALES.
fr: Ventes
Service
noun
A process that creates benefits by facilitating a change in customers, a change in their physical possessions, or a change in their intangible assets.