Retailing
Production Management
Banking
Stock Exchange
Miscellaneous
100
Individual (such as a housewife) or a group (such as a family) which actually consumes or uses a good or service. Marketers try to identify these to aim their promotional efforts at them.
What is ultimate consumer?
100
An approach to organizing business processes oriented towards results where managers set business goals that contribute to the mission statement of the company. Work is divided into jobs and a measurable performance of each is made clear.
What is management by objectives?
100
The entity responsible for overseeing the monetary system for a nation (or group of nations). It has a wide range of responsibilities, from overseeing monetary policy to implementing specific goals such as currency stability and low inflation. They also generally issue currency, function as the bank of the government, regulate the credit system, oversee commercial banks, and regulate the banking system.
What is Central Bank?
100
A list of the average price of stocks in a group of companies on a particular stock market. It is used in measurement and reporting of changes in the market value of a group of stocks/shares.
What is stock index?
100
A company whose shares have been accepted for trading on a stock exchange.
What is a quoted company/listed company?
200
A small profitable segment of a market and this type of market usually generates high profits for companies.
What is niche?
200
This is a company-wide approach to management where processes are continually improved, everyone is held accountable, and zero defects is a goal for production.
What is Total Quality Management?
200
They offer services to the public such as payment of bills, transfer of salaries, and use of credit cards.
What are commercial banks?
200
The current quoted price at which investors buy or sell a share of stock or a bond at a given time.
What is market value?
200
A person's attitude towards a store. This usually depends on the atmospherics, reputation, product mix, prices, and services.
What is store image?
300
This consists of direct selling, catalog retailing, television shopping, and online retailing.
What is non-store retailing?
300
A method for lean production where similar jobs are grouped together and production is often made up of a number of projects.
What is cellular manufacturing?
300
A central bank regulation used by most of the world's central banks, that sets the minimum fraction of customer deposits that each commercial bank must hold in the bank (rather than lend out). This requirement is normally in the form of cash stored physically in a bank vault.
What is reserve requirement?
300
Financing or investment instruments (some negotiable, others not) bought and sold in financial markets, such as bonds and shares (stocks).
What are securities?
300
The specific group of customers a business has decided to aim its marketing efforts and ultimately its merchandise towards. This is a key element to a marketing strategy. ...
What is a target market?
400
Retail-store factors such as display design and fixtures, flooring, smell, sound level, store lighting and temperature, wall coverings, and other elements of store's ambience, which can be controlled by a retailer to influence the consumer's buying mood.
What is atmospherics?
400
The rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance such as cost, quality, service, and speed. It aims to to make processes & inventory much simpler and more logical and result in the production of leaner and fitter organizations.
What is BPR(business process re-engineering)?
400
This type of bank gives financial advice to businesses on issues such as ways to raise funds, expansion plans, how to deal with foreign currency and whether or not to "go public" or offer an IPO.
What is merchant bank?
400
A debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (corporate or governmental) that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate. They are used by companies, municipalities, and governments to finance a variety of projects and activities.
What are bonds?
400
Eliminating workers and/or divisions within the company where the goal is to find ways to improve efficiency and increase profitability.
What is downsizing?
500
Identifying an under-served market segment and service the segment by distinguishing themselves from the competitors. This strategy helps establish your product's or service's identity within the eyes of the purchaser.
What is retail positioning?
500
One consequence of quality management. It is the comparison of one organization's practices and performance against those of others. This seeks to identify standards, or "best practices," to apply in measuring and improving performance. In other words, the level of quality that a company in an industry has and other companies will try to reach.
What is benchmarking?
500
A combination of two things, especially companies, into one. The resources of the combined entities are pooled for the benefit of the new entity.
What is merger?
500
They are sold by the original owners of a company, to investors, to gain additional funds to help the company grow. After the IPO, they can be sold and resold on the stock market. They are a type of security that signifies ownership in a public corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporation's assets and earnings.
What are stocks/shares?
500
A term in management and corporate restructuring that refers to a planned reduction in the levels of a management hierarchy and it becomes flatter. This is used to reduce communication time and empowering workers which increases trust among the workers.
What is delayering?
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