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Goods

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Products (vörur)

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Firm

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A business organisation formed to make money/company (fyrirtæki)

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Business

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A company involved in the manufacturing, buying or selling of goods and services (viðskipti)

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Services

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Providing something to meet a need, like banking services, travel services and insurance services (þjónusta )

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Manufacture

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To pruduce, to make (framleiða)

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Import

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To bring into the country (flytja inn)

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Export

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To sell out of the country (flytja út)

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Distribute

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To supply and deliver products (dreifa)

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To retail

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To sell goods to the public, usually through shops, stores (selja í smásölu, verslunum)

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A range of

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All the products a company makes or sells (úrval)

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Self-employed

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Working for yourself (með sjálfstæðan atvinnurekstur)

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Enterprise

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A business organisation which exists to make money (atvinnufyrirtæki)

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Multinational

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In many countries (fjölþjóðlegt)

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Entreprenour

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Someone who has a business idea that they turn into a company (frumkvöðull

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To generate

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To create (skapa)

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Shareholders

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People who have bought a part in a company (hluthafar, partner)

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Shares, stockes

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A part of a company that is owned by a shareholder (hlutabréf)

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Stock exchange

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Place where stocks are bought and sold (verbréfamarkaður (hlutabréfamarkaður??))

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Corporation

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Very large company consisting of several smaller companies (samsteypa, hlutafélag)

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To expand

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To increase in size, get bigger (að stækka)

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To merge

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To join several companies into one (að sameinast)

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To aquire/take over

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To buy another company (að kaupa, eignast)

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Subsidiary

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A company which has been bought by a larger company (dótturfélag/fyrirtæki)

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Parent company

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Large company which has bought a smaller company/subsidiary (móðurfélag)

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Corporate
Adjective used to describe things relating to companies like corporate companies (fyrirtækis-?)
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Commerce/trade
Buying and selling with the intention of making a profit (viðskipti)
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Commercial
Relates to commerce (viðskipta-, og verslunar-)
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Payroll
The list of the company´s employees, those who need to be payed wages/salaries (launaskrá)
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Employees
people who work for a company. Also known as: staff personnel, workers (starfsólk)
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White collar workers
Office workers (skrifstofufólk)
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Blue collar workers
People in dirty jobs like in a factory or industry work (verkamenn/iðnaðarmenn)
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Industry??
Iðnaður
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Workforce
All the people working at a company (vinnuafl)
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Management
All the people who have the responibility of running the company (stjórn)
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Administration
All the tasks that enable the company to function f.e. customer service, office duties, bookkeeping, answering the phones (rekstur)
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Operations
Business activities (starfsemi)
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Site
Location, place (staðsetning)
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Headquarters
Main office (höfuðstöðvar)
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Bookkeeping
The activity or occupation of keeping records of the financial affairs of a business (bókhald)
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Customer support
Helping costumers with their questions and complaints (þjónusta við viðskiptavini)
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Switchboard
Answering the phone (skiptiborð)
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Purchasing
Buying supplies for the company (innkaup)
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Human Resources/personnel
All the people working for a company (mannauður, starfsfólk)
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Human Resources department
The department looking after the staff, hiring contracts, pay, firing, etc. (starfsmannasvið, mannauðssvið)
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Recruitment
Hiring staff (ráðning)
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Trade/labor union
Organisation that fights for worker´s right within an idustr or a company
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To make industrial action
Any kind of protest activity - strikes, overtime bans - by workers like overtime bans by nurses (verkfallsaðgerðir)
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Hierarchy
Pyramid-shaped diagram that shows th evarious levels of responsibility. At the bottom are the people with the least expirience and responsibilty. At the top is the CEO or Managing Director (stigveldi)
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Expirience
If you are expirienced at something you have done it several times before and are used to do it (reynsla)
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Expertise
Special knowledge or skill (sérþekking)
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Responsibility
Being in control of something (ábyrgð)
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To promote
To offer someone a higher level job with more responsibility and more pay
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Organigram
Diagram of how the staff are organised (skipurit)
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Board of directors
Non-executive directors:people who advise and guide the company but who are not involved in day-to-day operations e.g. a representive of the share holders, a person with a lot of business exipirience to share (stjórn fyrirtækisins)
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Chief executive (CEO)/Managing dierctor (MD)/President
The top person in the company (forstjóri)
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Director (also executive)
A senior member of the company, responsible for decision making (framkvæmdastjóri, sviðstjóri)
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Manager
Someone on charge of department or a project (deildarstjóri)
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IT
Information Technology, the department responsible for the computer systems (upplýsingatækni, tölvudeild)
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Marketing
Planning a campaign that will advertise a product and atttract the right consumers (markapssetning)
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Accounts department
Responsible for costumer accounts (reiknishald)
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Boardroom
A special room where the Board of Directors meet (fundarherbergi)
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Budget
A fiancial plan (fjárhagsáætlun)
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Retierment
To stop working at the end of your working life, usually at 67 yo in Iceland (fara á eftirlaun)
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Career ladder
A path of promotion up through the various levels of a company´s hierarchy (virðingarröð starfa)
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Promotion
To move up the career ladder (stöðuhækkun)
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Senior
Older with more expirience and responsibility
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To resign/to hand in your notice
To give up your work (usually because you want to work for someone else) (segja upp)
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To downsize
To make a company smaller (usually by getting rid of employees and levels of management) (minnka/fækka starfsfólki)
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To restructure
To organise the company differently
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Efficiency
Getting good effort and results from staff for the minimum time and money (skilvirkni)
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Profits
Money left over after all the bills have been payed (hagnaður)
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Outsorced
Bought service from outside the company, like cleaning service (aðkeypt þjónusta)
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In-house
Inside the company (innanhúss)
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Freelancers
People who accept contracts for short-term projects, they are never on the company´s payroll (verktaki)
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Flexibility
The opportunity to change or to do things differently

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