*BIZ - Business Acumen Flashcards
Statement of an organization’s financial position at a specific point in time, showing assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity.
Balance sheet
Ability to use information to gain a deeper understanding of an organization and make sound business decisions.
Business intelligence
Ratio of gross profit to net sales.
Gross profit margin
Amount of owners’ or shareholders’ portion of a business.
Equity
Presentation to management that establishes that a specific problem exists and argues for a proposed solution.
Business case
Statement that reports revenues, expenses, and profits for a specified period of time, for example, quarterly or annually.
Income statement
Applications that can analyze data faster and in more ways than traditional relational databases, offering a multidimensional analysis of business data.
Analytical processing
The process by which an organization creates the product or service it offers to the customer.
Value chain
Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Money an organization’s customers owe the organization.
Accounts receivable
Organization’s debts and other financial obligations.
Liabilities
Statement of an organization’s ability to meet its current and short-term obligations, showing incoming and outgoing cash and cash reserves in operations, investments, and financing.
Cash flow statement
Money an organization owes its vendors and suppliers.
Accounts payable
Ratio of net income (gross sales minus expenses and taxes) to net sales.
Net profit margin
The benefit created when an organization meets its strategic goals; measure of usefulness, worth, or importance.
Value
