Flashcard Terms (D's)

Question 1

Damages

Answer 1

Recompense for the injured party by the party that breached the contract

Question 2

Databases

Answer 2

An electronic filing system that collects and organizes data and information

Question 3

Debt

Answer 3

Amount owed to someone

Question 4

Debt Instruments

Answer 4

A tool used by a company or any other entity to raise money or capital

Question 5

Decentralized Companies

Answer 5

Companies with structures that distribute the authority to make decisions to lower levels of employees who are closer to the problem

Question 6

Deep Learning

Answer 6

A subset of machine learning in which computers learn unsupervised from data that are unstructured

Question 7

Departmentalization

Answer 7

Grouping a business’s people, tasks, and resources into units

Question 8

Deregulation

Answer 8

The removal of regulations or restrictions in a particular industry

Question 9

Derivatives

Answer 9

Special types of financial instruments, the prices of which are ultimately derived from the price or performance of some underlying assets.

Question 10

Digital Divide

Answer 10

The inequality between groups to access knowledge and use of information in communication technologies

Question 11

Direct Channel

Answer 11

The shortest path between a producer and a consumer

Question 12

Direct Distribution Strategy

Answer 12

Distribution strategy that reaches customer directly without any intermediaries; distribution channel and distribution strategy are often used interchangeably

Question 13

Discrepancies

Answer 13

Accounting errors that occur unintentionally

Question 14

Distribution

Answer 14

The process of supplying goods to customers

Question 15

Distribution Channel

Answer 15

The way a seller makes a product available to a customer to buy; sometimes used interchangeably with marketing channel

Question 16

Distributor

Answer 16

Someone who supplies goods to businesses

Question 17

Diversifying

Answer 17

The process of allocating capital in a way that reduces the exposure to any one particular asset or risk

Question 18

Dividend Repatriation

Answer 18

The return of earnings from foreign subsidiaries to their parent companies back in the home country

Question 19

Division of Labor

Answer 19

Dividing organizational activities into smaller tasks

Question 20

Divisional Structure

Answer 20

An organizational structure grouping employees into departments based on products, processes, or geographic regions

Question 21

Domestic

Answer 21

Related to home or place of origin

Question 22

Domestic Workers Convention, 2011

Answer 22

Convention (2011) aimed at protecting domestic workers from abuse and exploitation

Question 23

Due Diligence

Answer 23

The reasonable steps or research necessary before making an informed decision or evaluation