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Business Fundamentals
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statement of beliefs and values that direct behavior - clear concise manner and included in staff handbooks and annual reports.
Philosophy
Corporate Strategy
forecasting
Copyright
2. Marketing approach in which firms first ask permission to deliver messages to an audience and then promise to restrict their communication efforts to those subject areas in which audience members have expressed interest
responsibilities of a financial manager
Small Business Administration (SBA)
permission-based marketing
Position Influence
3. Agreement to produce and market another company's product in exchange for a royalty or fee
license
national brands
growth stage
Common Law
4. A prolonged and deep recession
Depression
General (Active) Partner
Whistle Blower
Labor Union
5. Illegal practice of using special knowledge about a firm for profit or gain
Insider Trading
form utility
Swot Analysis
Imperfect Competition
6. Delegating more power to employees
price elasticity
Business Plan
decision-making role
empowerment
7. Payments other than wages or salaries - other benefits
assume that all workers are content with their work
Crisis Management
fringe benefit
organizational market
8. Top management team of a corporation
general expenses
Officers
specialty advertising
Planning
9. Management process of determining what an organization needs to do and how best to get it done
Planning
horizontal analysis
Import
Work Specialization
10. Where products are conveniently placed for customers
growth strategies
statement of cash flows
Services
place utility
11. Portion of a brand that cannot be expressed verbally
organization behavior modification
brand mark
Private enterprise
liabilities
12. The way you live as measure by the kinds and quality of goods and services you can afford
product life cycle
Standard of Living
Retrenchment
Market
13. Process for evaluating proposed investments in select projects that provide the best long-term financial return
Matrix Structures
capital budgeting
Three reasons nations trade
accounts payable
14. Management process of monotoring an organization's performance to ensure that it is meeting its goals
Controlling
Recovery
direct marketing
social media approach
15. profitability - liquidity - activities - and leverage/debt
stealth marketing
types of financial ratios
generic products
fixed costs
16. Markets focus on increasing the product's market share
Committee and Team Authority
Standard of living
growth stage
Business Plan
17. Economic system that allows individuals to pursue their own interests without undue governmental restriction
Socialism
form utility
vertical analysis
Private enterprise
18. Goal set for an extended time - typically 5 years or more in the future
Expert Influence
Long-Term Goal
3 Economic Role
Delegation
19. Total value of all goods and services produced by a national economy within a given period regardless of where the factors of production are located
Gross National Product (GNP)
productivity - the success of the managers - and the morale of the other employees
Goal
Officers
20. Method of calculating the minimum volume of sales needed at a given price to cover all costs
Reward Influence
assets
break-even analysis
forecasting
21. Statement of a firm's financial position on a particular date; also known as a statement of financial position
theory x
decline stage
balance sheet
Gross National Product (GNP)
22. Measure of profitability calculated by divided net income after taxes by the average number of shares of common stock outstanding
earnings per share
Market
penetration pricing
permission marketing
23. Products characterized by a plain label - with no advertising and no brand name
Sexual Harassment
news conference
generic products
license
24. The portion of shareholders' equity earned by the company but not distributed to its owners in the form of dividends
retained earnings
commercialization
Philosophy
fixed costs
25. Court-granted permission for a company to not pay some or all debts
General Partnership
Delegation
Bankruptcy
Outsourcing
26. Help identify and distinguish the product - provide information about the product such as ingredients - shelf life - operating procedures - and UPC codes which are used for scanning sales information and monitoring inventory and pricing
Leadership
Processing
function of labels
Consumer Goods
27. Changes the form of material so they can be consumed or used to manufacture other products
Processing
Closely Held (or Private) Corporation
skim pricing
Safety
28. Advertising intended to remind existing customers of a product's availability and benefits
Policy
penetration pricing
selling expenses
reminder advertising
29. Intermediary who sells products to other businesses for resale to final consumers
Whistle Blower
Wholesaler
Organizational Structure
Exchange Rate
30. The practice of paying suppliers and distributors to perform certain business processes or to provide needed materials or services
Outsourcing
Expert Influence
categories of customer communication
brand loyalty
31. Electronic media that invite participation by the general public
mission statement
social media
responsibility
Extractor
32. Systematic direction and control of the processes that transform resources into finished products that create value for and provide benefits to customers
Operations (Production) Management
risks of product-line extensions
Price Fixing
quick ratio
33. Measures of the extent to which a business is financed by debt as opposed to invested capital - calculated by dividing the company's total liabilities by owners' equity
debt-to-equity ratio
Restructuring
common pricing strategies
responsibilities of a financial manager
34. Statement of a firm's cash receipts and cash payments that presents information on its sources and uses of cash
Real GDP
long-term liabilities
Tall Organizational Structure
statement of cash flows
35. Choosing one alternative from among several options
earnings per share
discount pricing
Unlimited Liability
Decision Making
36. The willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a good or service
Demand
Span of Control
selling expenses
Unemployment
37. Multiple year; compares two ratios in company's financial statements; sales - sales returns/allowance - net sales - gross marginal
horizontal analysis
Extension
Price Fixing
Public Goods
38. Changing jobs or tasks from time to time
price based pricing
Unlimited Liability
demographics
job rotation
39. The level of joblessness among people actively seeking work in an economic system
form utility
Unemployment
Patent
search advertising
40. Money paid to acquire something of permanent value in a business
psychographics
capital investments
Quid Pro Quo Harassment
statement of cash flows
41. Intermediary who sells products directly to consumers
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Retailer
family branding
Environmental Analysis
42. Marketers try to extend the life of the product by highlighting improvements or by repackaging the product in different sizes
penetration pricing
types of financial ratios
Audit
maturity stage
43. A phase of the business cycle when most people who want to work are working and businesses produce goods and services in record numbers
Prosperity
Limited Liability
line organization
delegate the task
44. Motivator and hygiene factors need to be met to prevent dissatisfaction
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45. When organizations change raw materials into finished goods
form utility
Marketer
laissez-faire Leadership style
news release
46. Industry in which one company can most efficiently supply all needed goods or services
marketing
Natural monopoly
World Trade Organization (WTO)
earnings per share
47. Market structure that does not meet all conditions of perfect competition - three catagories: monopolistic - oligopoly & monopoly
introductory stage
Imperfect Competition
stages of product development
Short-Term Goal
48. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act - companies cannot fire or refuse to hire people because of...
certain disabilities and illnesses
Policy
responsibilities of a financial manager
Long-range or strategic planning
49. Obligation employees have to their manager for the successful completion of an assigned task
Mission Statement
social media approach
Accountability
Corporate Bond
50. Personal communication between a seller and one or more potential buyers
Inflation
Joint Venture
personal selling
Service Operations (Service Production)