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Business A Level 1st Year Topics > Definitions > Flashcards

Definitions Flashcards

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Profit

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Total revenue is greater than total costs
To make more money than you spent

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Mission

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Overall purpose or main corporate aims

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Mission statement

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Tells you the purpose of a business.

Makes stakeholders aware of what the business does and why and to encourage all employees to work towards these aims

values, strategy, standards

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Objectives

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Helps enable them to achieve their missions

Turns the overall aims of the business into goals that must be met

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Corporate objectives

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Goals of the business as a whole
Depends on the size of a business

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Functional objectives

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Objectives of each department
More detailed and specific - helps achieve corporate objectives

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Cash flow

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Money that moves in and out of a business over a period of time

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overtrading

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business produces too much; they have to pay suppliers and staff so much that they’ll become insolvent before they get a chance to be paid by their customers

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Ethical objectives

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based on moral principles - how to treat people and the environment

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Non - profit organizations

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charities or social enterprises set to achieve social or ethical objectives

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Revenue

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Value of sales or turnover
Amount of money generated by sales of a product before deductions

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Fixed costs

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Don’t change with output

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Variable costs

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Change with output

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Loss

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Total costs are greater than total revenue

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Large scale production

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more output lowers cost per unit produced as FC are shared out between more items

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Budgets

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Forecasts how much costs are going to be over a year

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Public sector

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Owned and run by the government aim to provide services to the public - no profit

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Private sector

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owned and run by private individuals aim to make a profit but can also be non profit

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Unlimited liability

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The business and owner are seen as one under the law
Business debts are personal debts of the owner
Huge financial risk

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Limited liability

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Owner’s aren’t personally responsible for the debts of the business
Separate legal identity
Only lose the money you invest

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Sole trader

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Self employed and has full responsibility for the financial control of the business, meeting running costs and capital requirements
Has unlimited liability

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Capital requirements

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Money invested to set up a business or fund growth

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Divorce of ownership and control

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shares in a PLC can be owned by money - people who own the company don’t necessitate control over the company - controlled by directors

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Ordinary share capital

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shares sold by companies in order to raise money - LT investment

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Dividend

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Payment return for their investment
Proportion of the profits earned by the company paid to shareholders
Fixed amount per share

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Market capitalization

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Total value of all the ordinary shares issued by a company

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Shareholder

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Owns at least one share in a company

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Majority shareholder

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owns more than 50% of the shares
Has the most power in decision making

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Capital gain

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buy share prices when they are low and sell them when risen to make a profit

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Interest rates

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reward for saving and cost of borrowing

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Fairtrade

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Pay higher and fairer prices for products which improves standard of living for suppliers employees

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Sweatshop

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Factory where workers are forced to work long hours in poor conditions for low pay

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Management

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Telling people what to do and organizing resources to get the job done

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Leadership

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motivating and inspiring people - persuasion of decisions

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Opportunity cost

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Value of the next best alternative that’s been given up

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Stakeholder

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Anyone who is affected by a business and has a vested interest in what the business has to offer

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Marketing

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Identifies customer wants and needs and tries to anticipate future demand
Helps businesses earn profit
Research, planning, analysis and the marketing mix

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Marketing mix

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All the decisions a business makes about promoting and selling a product

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Primary / secondary data

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primary - new data
secondary - analyze data already available

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Confidence intervals

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A range of values you’re fairly sure the value for the population will lie within

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Product line

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related products - usually the same product different size, similar characteristics, use and target customers

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Product portfolio / mix

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combination of product lines a business produces - variety at different stages of the product life cycle

43
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Boston Matrix

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compares market growth with market share - size of circle represents product sale value

44
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Cost plus pricing

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price set to cover the cost of making the product and make a profit. added price is called the mark up

45
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price skimming

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new and innovative products sold at high prices when they first reach the market.

46
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Penetration pricing

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launching a product at a low price in order to attract customers and gain market share

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Predatory pricing

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lower prices to force another business out of the market and later increasing pricing

48
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competitive pricing

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companies monitor competitors price to set prices at an equal or lower level

49
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Psychological pricing

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based on customer experiences - high price means high quality, insignificant price change can have a big psychological impact on the customer [£99.99 - £100]

50
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Loss leaders

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products sold at or below cost price - indirect profits e.g. in supermarkets

51
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dynamic pricing

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increase revenue by changing prices depending on competitor prices and demand e.g. train tickets

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Industrial marketing

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B2B business to business

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Promotion

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Inform customers about a product / service or persuade them to buy it

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Capacity utilization

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Increasing output so it’s closer to the maximum amount of goods that firms could produce with current levels of staff and machinery

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Adding value

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increasing the difference between the cost of the raw materials and the the price the customer pays - increases profit

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Job production

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one off items by skilled workers

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Flow production

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mass production on continuous production line with division of labor

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Batch production

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small batches of identical items

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Cell production

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divided into sets of tasks each completed by a work group

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Lean production

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streamlined production with waste at a minimum

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Capacity

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maximum output that is produced in a given period without buying any more fixed assets

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Outsource

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Business uses another firm to do some work on its behalf - meet unexpected demand

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Productivity

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output per worker in a given time period

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Efficiency

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getting more outputs from a given number of inputs

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JIT Production

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efficient stock control as there is reduced waste of materials and products by keeping stock low. supply is directly linked with demand

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Time based management

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Reduce wasted time in production processes

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Lead time

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Time between a customer placing an order and taking delivery

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Quality control

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checking goods as you make them or when they arrive from suppliers

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Quality assurance

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introducing measures into the production process to try and ensure things don’t go wrong in the first place, prevent errors

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Kaizen

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employees should be slightly improving their work all the time

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Capital

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wealth in the form of money or assets owned by a business

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capital expenditure

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money spent to buy fixed assets

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Creditors

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people who are owed money by the business

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debtors

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people who owe the business money

75
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payable

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money that the business owes

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receivables

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money that is owed to the business

77
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sales and leaseback

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sell equipment to raise capital and then lease (rent) the equipment back

78
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debt factoring

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When banks and other financial institutions take unpaid invoices off the hands of the business and give them an instant cash payment.
The agent pays the business about 80% of the value of the invoice as an instant cash advance.

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Budgets

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forecast future earnings and future spendings

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Income budget

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forecasts amount of money that comes as revenue

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expenditure budget

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predicts businesses total costs for the year - FC and VC

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variance

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difference between actual figures and budgeted figures

83
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Break even output

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Level of sales a business needs to cover its costs
break even point: costs = revenue

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Overdraft

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where a bank lets a business have a negative amount of money in its bank account

85
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venture capitalist

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funding in the form of a share or loan capital that is invested in a business that is thought to be high risk and has the potential to be successful.

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Hard HRM

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employees seen as a resource, ST, motivated by money, training done to meet production needs

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Soft HRM

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employees are the most important resource, LT, motivate workers through empowerment, training done to meet development needs

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delayering

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removing parts of the hierarchy to create a flatter structure with wider spans of control

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delegation

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giving responsibility for decision making to people below you

90
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Centralization

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All decisions are made by senior managers at the top of the business

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decentralization

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shares out authority to more junior employees

92
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Balance sheets

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snapshot of a firms finance at a fixed point in time
show the value of all the businesses assets, liabilities, the value of all the capital and sources of capital

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Inventories

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stock - unsold products

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net current assets

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working capital available to spend for day to day spending

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depreciation

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non current assets losing value over time

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investment

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using capital to buy assets that will generate more revenue in the future

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Non current assets

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assets the business is likely to keep for more than a year

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current assets

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assets the business is likely to exchange for cash within the accounting year they include receivables and inventories

99
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current liabilities

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debts that have to be paid off within a year they include overdrafts, payables, taxes and dividends

100
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Income statements

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shows how much money has been coming into the company as revenue and how much has been going out as expenses

101
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liquidity

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how easily an asset can be turned into cash and used to buy things.

102
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current ratio

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Shows how solvent - able to pay debts a business is

103
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Inventory turnover

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How many times during the year the business has sold all of its stock

104
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Gearing

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shows potential investors where a businesses finance has come from through non current liabilities i.e. shareholders and borrowing. shows how vulnerable a business is to interest rates

Business A Level 1st Year Topics (7 decks)

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