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Flash cards to date (21/6/24)

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Define Limited Liability

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When a business owner has a separate legal identity to their business so their personal assets are not at risk

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Define Unlimited Liability

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When a business owner has the same legal identity as their business so their personal assets are at risk

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Define Sole Trader

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Where a business is started and owned by one person who keeps all the profits,
but holds all the responsibilities

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Define Partnership

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Where a business is started and owned by more than one person, who then share the profits and the responsibilities

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Define Shareholder

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An owner of a company who receives a dividend as a return for their investment

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Define Private Limited Company

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A business with limited liability that sells shares to friends and family

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Define Public limited company

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A business with limited liability that sells shares on the stock exchange

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Define Stock market

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Where investors can buy and sell ownership of investible assets such as stocks or equities which represent fractional ownership in a company

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Define Market growth

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The percentage growth in the size of the market measured over a specific period

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Define Market share

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The percentage of total sales a business’ particular good or service has

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Define percentage change

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The relative difference between an old value and a new value

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Define capital expenditure

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Funds spent by a company to acquire or upgrade a long term asset

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Investment capital

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The expenditure of money to fund a company’s long term growth

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Define working capital

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The amount of money a business has for carrying out its day to day functions

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Define Internal sources of finance

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Sources of finance that come from within the business

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Define external sources of finance

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Sources of finance that come from outside of the business

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Define short term sources of finance

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business finance in the short term (typically less than a year)

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Define long term sources of finance

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Business finance in the long term (over a year)

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19
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Define owner’s capital

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Money invested into the business by the owner

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20
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Define Retained profit

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Money generated by the business that is kept in the business

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21
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Define sale of assets

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when established businesses sell assets that are no longer required

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Define overdraft

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Source of finance for a business where it is allowed to take more money out of its account
than it has deposited

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23
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Define Trade credit

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When a business orders and receives supplies, but pays for them at a later date

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Define Debt factoring

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When a business sells its unwanted debts to debt factoring business

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Define bank loan

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Source of finance for a business where they receive a fixed amount of money for a specified time,
which will need repayment with interest

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26
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Define Share capital

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The money raised by a business from the sale of shares

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27
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Define venture capital

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A source of finance normally for small businesses with good growth prospects, where the venture
capitalist normally takes a stake in the business

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Define Hire purchase

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when a business agrees a contract to acquire an asset by paying an initial instalment and repays the price of the asset plus interest over a period of time

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Define Leasing

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the business pays a regular amount over a period of time but the item belongs to the leasing company

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30
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Define commercial mortgage

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a sum of money that is borrowed from the bank that is secured against a business property and payed back in instalments over a long period of time

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31
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Define Government grant

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a fixed amount of money awarded by the government or charitable organisations

32
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Define sale and leaseback

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when a business sells an asset but leases the same asset back from its new owner

33
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Define revenue

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the income from sales

34
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Define Fixed costs

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Costs that do not vary with output

35
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Define variable costs

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Costs that vary with output

36
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Define profit

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The difference between revenue and costs

37
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Define cost per unit

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the amount of money spent by a business when producing a single unit of a product

38
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Define semi variable cost

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expenses that include both fixed and variable cost components

39
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Define direct costs

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a cost that is directly tied to the production of a good or service

40
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Defne indirect costs

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costs that do not relate to a specific good or service

41
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Define break even

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Where total revenue is the same as total costs and no profit or loss is made

42
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Define contribution per unit

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the difference between the sale price of a product and the variable costs incurred for it

43
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Define Total contribution

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the difference between total sales revenue and total variable costs

44
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Define Margin of safety

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The additional output that a business produces or expects to produce more than its breakeven output

45
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Define stakeholder

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Anyone with interest in the business

46
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Define Trade receivables

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customers who owe the business money

47
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Define trade payables

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The money the business owes to suppliers

48
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Define Working capital cycle

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the time it takes to convert the total net working capital into cash

49
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Define over trading

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when a business expands too quickly and runs into cash flow problems

50
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Define equity

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the ordinary share capital of a business

51
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Define Debt

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when a business owes someone money

52
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Define Cash flow

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a company’s sources and uses of cash over time

53
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Define cash flow forecast

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the predicted movement of money in and out of a business over a period of time

54
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Define cash inflow

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money coming into the business

55
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Define cash outflow

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money going out of the business

56
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Define liquidity

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when an asset is converted into cash

57
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Define Net cash flow

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The difference between total inflows and outflows

58
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Define opening balance

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The amount of money a business has at the start of the month

59
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Define closing balance

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The amount of money a business has at the end of the month

60
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Define seasonal demand

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fluctuations in output and sales related to the season of the year

61
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Define income statement

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A statement that shows a company’s profit and loss over a period of time

62
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Define Cost of sales

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the costs that go into providing a service or a product for a customer

63
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Define Gross profit

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the difference between revenue and cost of sales

64
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Define net profit

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the difference between gross profit and expenses

65
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Define expenses

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a cost of operations that a company incurs to generate revenue

66
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Define gross profit margin

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the percentage profit made on sales not taking into account expenses

67
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Define net profit margin

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the percentage profit after all costs and expenses have been deducted

68
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Define Ratio analysis

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the analysis of various pieces of financial information in the financial statements of a business

69
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Define Budget

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an estimation of revenue and expenses over a specific period of time

70
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Define variance

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the difference between actual and budgeted sales

71
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Define Favourable variance

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when costs are lower than expected

72
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Define adverse variance

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When costs are higher than expected

73
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Define subordinate

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an employee who is not management level and responds to a group of managers

74
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What is a theory x management style?

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When employees are strictly controlled and not given any freedom to make decisions

75
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What is buffer stock?

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A minimum level of stock

76
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What is lead time?

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The amount of time between ordering supplies and then arriving

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