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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Business wholly owned by its employees with the emphasis on group decision making.






2. Useable or acceptable.






3. The right to have your sexual orientation and practices remain secret.






4. Officials formally appointed to run and represent a company.






5. Things which are likely or feasible.






6. A non-profit making organization which exists to support and help a particular group.






7. The right of owners of physical or intellectual property to consume - rent or sell their property.






8. A technique used to assess expected profitability of a company or single product.






9. Steps taken in advance to avoid an accident happening.






10. In a business plan this is the change in the cash balance.






11. A systematic - independent examination of whether a company's quality procedures are being followed and goals being achieved or not.






12. A person who is on the managing board of a business.






13. Information officially declared secret - such as classified documents or material that are available only to particular people.






14. A wealthy person who invests in a start-up company.






15. The amount of money of a company's profits that is distributed to its shareholders.






16. Positions customer's relative perceptions of one brand in comparison to other competitive alternatives.






17. A response or reaction to a piece of information.






18. The first time a company offers its shares to the public.






19. Ships especially designed for trucks to drive into them using internal ramps.






20. A form of corporate equity ownership giving voting rights.






21. Ships with permanent container cells with little or no space for other cargo types.






22. A document representing one unit of ownership in a corporation - mutual fund or limited partnership.






23. The truck unit onto which freight in a container is loaded.






24. Electronic records of phone calls - bank transactions etc which paint a picture of what a person did - where and when.






25. A measure of the average time between failures in a system - the higher the amount - the more reliable the thing is.






26. A warehouse authorized by customs where goods are stored and no payment is required until the goods are removed.






27. Earnings Before Interest - Taxes - Depreciation and Amortization.






28. Series of questions designed to gather information on a certain topic.






29. To decide that an agreed appointment or booking will not take place.






30. Costs that fluctuate in direct relation to the volume of units produced.






31. A place for the reception - delivery - consolidation - distribution and storage of goods and cargo.






32. A unit of measure for liquids equivalent to 42 gallons.






33. Cargo which is transported by plane.






34. A voting system where each vote is kept private.






35. Someone who invests in a business partnership without taking part in business affairs. Usually sleeping partners have limited liability.






36. The state of remaining unknown to most other people.






37. The crime of deceiving someone to get money or good illegally.






38. The total value of the money invested into a company by its shareholders.






39. A delivery which is currently between its source and destination.






40. The total value of all the outstanding shares of a publicly-traded company.






41. Earnings Before Interest and Taxes.






42. Activities including product - method of distribution - method of advertising which all affect how a product is marketing.






43. Unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice.






44. A portion - piece or segment of something that is representative of the whole.






45. Duties or taxes imposed by the government on imported and exported goods.






46. The granting of power to perform various acts or duties.






47. Cargo ships not specialised in one type of cargo unlike a full containership.






48. An investment contributed at the early stages of a new venture.






49. The time which a seller needs to produce and deliver goods.






50. The science of making sure people and machines work together as well as possible.







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