Business Types
Business Departments
Marketing
Accounting & Finance
General Business Terms
100

Businesses which develop products for distribution from raw goods.

What are producers?

100

This department is responsible for managing the employment process, training staff, and following laws.

What is Human Resources? 

100

The four interrelated marketing strategies consisting of product, price, promotion, and place.

What is the Marketing

100

Items of value owned by a business.

What are assets?

100

Materials derived from natural resources.

What are raw goods? 


200

Businesses which change raw or processed goods into finished goods.

What are manufacturers?  

200

This department is responsible for recording, classifying, summarizing, and reporting the financial position of a business.

What is Accounting?

200

A marketing theory stating the stages products and services experience from their introduction to their decline.

What is the Product Life Cycle?

200

Debts or obligations of a business.

What are liabilities?

200

A pyramid that expresses the needs of people in levels, from basic needs to self-actualization.

What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? 

300

Businesses which provide services to consumers and other businesses.

What are service firms

300

This department is responsible for managing the use of company funds and creating a financial plan.

What is Finance?

300

This department is responsible for distributing goods and services efficiently and cost-effectively.

What is Distribution?

300

This financial statement reports the totals in asset, liability, and owner's equity accounts.

What is a Balance Sheet?

300

The process of effectively working together in group settings.

What is cooperation?

400

Businesses that operate on donations, volunteers, and philanthropists rather than profit.

What are non-profit organizations?

400

This department is responsible for creating products that meet consumer wants and needs.

What is Marketing?

400

This "P" in the marketing mix is the tangible good, service, or idea offered to meet customer needs, and includes everything from a product's features and design to its branding and packaging

What is a Product?

400

This financial statement reports the net income or net loss of a company.

What is an Income Statement?

400

The process of reaching a company's goals by utilizing its resources.

What is Management?

500

Businesses that change raw goods into a more finished form.

 What are processors?

500

This department is responsible for producing goods and services in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

What is Production?

500

This "P" is the monetary value that a customer pays for a product, representing the sum of all the values a customer gives up to gain the benefits of having or using a product or service.

What is Price?

500

The formula that states Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity.

What is the Accounting Equation?

500

Businesses that provide goods and services to businesses and individuals, but operate on donations, volunteers, and philanthropists.

What are Non-profit Organizations?

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