5th Six Weeks Flashcards

1
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The chance a company will have lower than expected profits or have a loss rather than taking a profit.

A

Business Risk

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2
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Fires or other events that can force businesses to move or close.

A

Business Interruption

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3
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Damage to business from storms, fires, and other disasters.

A

Property Loss

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4
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Workplace accidents that result in medical treatment and/or lost productivity

A

Injury

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5
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Risk of lawsuits for accidents, libel, slander, or other unanticipated events.

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Liability

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6
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Loss of data or data theft.

A

Security Breach

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7
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A contract where an individual or organization has protection against the risk of loss.

A

Insurance

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8
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This kind of risk has two possibile outcomes: good or bad.

A

Pure Risk

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9
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This kind of risk has three possible outcomes: good, bad, or nothing.

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Speculative Risk

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10
Q

Risk factors you can do something about.

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Controllable Risk

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11
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Risk factors you cannot do anything about.

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Uncontrollable Risk

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12
Q

Risk that is possible to collect, calculate, and estimate the losses - these risks can be protected.

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Insurable Risk

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13
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Risks that cannot be calculated or estimated, and usually cannot be protected against through an insurance company.

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Uninsurable Risk

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14
Q

Forming an LLC or Corporation to protect against personal loss.

A

Limit Liability

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15
Q

Categorize threats as very likely, some chance, small chance, and very little chance.

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Prioritize Risks

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16
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Protecting the individual or company through different types like life, disability, professional, operational, and others.

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Buy Insurance

17
Q

Testing products and services to strive for the highest excellence.

A

Quality Assurance

18
Q

Create safeguards for buyers with poor credit to keep company profitable.

A

Limit High-Risk Customers

19
Q

Focusing on quality, not quantity, to reduce risk of problems down the road.

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Control Growth

20
Q

Appoint current or new employees to map out threats to company,

A

Risk Management Team

21
Q

Where businesses act in the best interests of their community and environment.

A

Social Responsibility

22
Q

The rules and standards for deciding what is right or wrong morally when conducting a business.

A

Ethics

23
Q

A wrong act or breach of contract.

A

Tort

24
Q

Proprietary information companies try to protect.

A

Trade Secrets

25
Q

Defamation where a business suffers a monetary loss.

A

Libel

26
Q

Hindering another individual or organization from conducting normal business.

A

Restraint

27
Q

Falsely or recklessly misrepresenting their identity or position in a contract.

A

Fraud

28
Q

An agreement that has been written or spoken, that is intended to be enforced by law.

A

Contract

29
Q

The methods through which rights are enforced, either criminal or civil.

A

Procedure

30
Q

The person or organization that owes money.

A

Debtor

31
Q

The person or organization that lends money.

A

Creditor

32
Q

Where one person is given the legal right to act on the behalf of another.

A

Agency

33
Q

Rules for how to legally act with natural resources.

A

Environmental Law

34
Q

Law that governs the creation and operation of governmental agencies.

A

Administrative Law

35
Q

This is in place to protect the employees, customers, the environment, and hold businesses accountable.

A

Business Regulation