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Business Analyst

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1. The total interest paid over the life of the loan. The finance charge is calculated by adding up all of the loan payments and then subtracting from this total the amount originally borrowed.






2. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.






3. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.






4. An analysis of five key forces which profiles the attractiveness of an industry. These include the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers - barriers to entry - threat of substitutes - and the competitive rivalry of firms already in the industry.


5. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.






6. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data






7. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts






8. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.






9. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.






10. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness






11. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.






12. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.






13. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.






14. A business presentation combining concise text and graphics. Schematic reports should be brief - well organized - and easy to navigate. Though usually designed in PowerPoint - schematic reports are intended primarily to be read rather than projected.






15. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.






16. The process of uncovering the numbers that contribute to creating a summary number. Drill down is like being shocked at you ATM balance and then calling the bank to get a list of withdrawls and payments made against your account.






17. Model slides that define the theme elements. The slide master defines the background elements - colors - and fonts. The layout masters provide a menu of possible layouts to apply to a slide.






18. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.






19. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.






20. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






21. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.






22. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.






23. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table






24. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






25. A wat to get information out of a database. Often a report will gather information together from multiple tables and present it as a single table






26. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






27. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.






28. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.






29. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.






30. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.






31. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.






32. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.






33. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.






34. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse






35. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns






36. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.






37. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.






38. A method for designing information systems. The life cycle proceeds through the following stages: an analysis of the current state - development of requirements - design of a solution - development from the design and finally to implementation or rol






39. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.






40. Describes how best to represent information






41. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.






42. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.






43. Look like standard reports but with a major difference. They are interactive and allow the user to drill down to disover the source for the summary numbers.






44. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.






45. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.






46. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.






47. A built in Excel function that calculates loan payments. Inputs to the function include the loan amount (pv) - the interest rate (rate) - and the number of loan payments (nper).






48. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.






49. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate






50. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.