Dist. & Promo
The combination of channels that a firm selects to get a product to end users.
Distribution Mix
Programs that tell the computer how to function, what resources to use, how to use them, and application programs for specific activities.
Software
A debt owed by a firm to an outside organization or individual.
Liability
These financial institutions earn profits from loans taken from the funds in each of its depositors' accounts.
Commercial Banks
The market where new stocks and bonds are sold.
Primary Market
A warehouse that is owned by a single retailer that typically deals in mass quantities.
Private Warehouse
An organization’s private network of internally linked websites accessible only to employees.
Intranet
An examination of a company's accounting system to determine whether its financial reports fairly represent its operation.
Audit
This money supply describes all money sources that highly liquid (i.e., cash and checking accounts).
M1
This refers to a bundling of stocks, bonds, and other securities.
Mutual fund
A type of distribution process where the product moves from producer to consumer without the use of intermediaries.
Direct channel
These provide remote access to employees allowing instant access to information, which helps businesses to save time and travel expenses by enabling employees to work from any location.
Portable offices
The accounting equation.
Assets = Liabilities + Owners' Equity
This attribute/role of money frees society from a system of barter.
Medium of Exchange
A bundle of stocks (or bonds) that are in an index that tracks the overall movement of a market.
Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
A marketing strategy designed to encourage retailers and wholesalers to carry a firm's offerings.
Push strategy
A security system with special software or hardware devices designed to keep computers safe from hackers.
Firewall
A type of asset that relates to things such as patents and trademarks.
Intangible assets
This agency guarantees the safety of all of its members' bank accounts up to $250k.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
A value of a stock calculated by dividing the firm's owners' equity from the company's balance sheet by the total number of common shares of stock owned by all shareholders.
Book value
The process of developing and establishing an easily identifiable product image and the nature of the product in the minds of consumers.
Positioning
The application of electronic technologies for searching, sifting, and reorganizing pools of data to uncover useful information
Data Mining
This financial statement details a firm's assets, liabilities, and owners' equity.
Balance sheet
This terms refers to the percentage of its deposits a bank must hold, in cash or on deposit.
Reserve Requirement
This is the largest stock exchange.
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)