Chapter 15 – Financing and Tracking Business Operations
Chapter 16 – Investment Opportunities in the Securities Market
Chapter 15/ 16 Wild Card
100
The process of working with people and resources to accomplish the goals of an organization.
What is Management?
100
Anna, a psychology major, has decided to specialize in the study of how to create a workplace that fosters motivation and productivity among employees. The field she is studying.
What is Organizational Psychology?
100
This shows what the company owns and what it has borrowed (owes) at a fixed point in time and shows the net worth of the business.
What is the balance sheet?
100
The federal agency that oversees and regulates the buying and selling of stocks and bonds.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
100
Obligations a company is responsible for paying within a year.
What are short-term liabilities?
200
These are short-term targets a company implements that are designed to help realize the plans that have been made.
What are objectives?
200
According to Maslow, which need are people striving to satisfy when they seek stable places to live and work?
What is Safety?
200
This measures a company’s short-term financial health and financial efficiency.
What is Cash Flow?
200
A corporate bond that is backed by collateral.
What is a secured bond?
200
The term for strategic planning and budgeting of short- and long-term funds for current and future needs.
What is Financial Management?
300
A successful manager must use these skills to be able to think abstractly in order to picture the organization as a whole and to understand its relationship to the rest of the business community.
What are Conceptual Skills?
300
Ken owns a food services company and recently negotiated a contract with a new restaurant chain. The satisfaction Ken feels for this success is a(n) ________.
What is an intrinsic motivator?
300
The money a company makes just from its products.
What is gross profit?
300
The strategy of having a variety of investments in your portfolio, such as different types of companies in different industries.
What is diversification?
300
These act as the intermediary between companies issuing stock and investors who purchase the stock?
What is a financial advisory firm or brokerage?
400
An emerging business structure in which a group of companies collaborate.
What are network organizations?
400
Ross's work team is made up of various members of the art department who have all worked together for many years. They like that they work in synch and rarely have to explain things to each other because they are so much alike. A threat to Ross' work team is narrow-mindedness caused by ________.
What is Groupthink?
400
This is the process of selling accounts receivable for cash.
What is factoring?
400
This is characterized by a declining stock market and decreasing investor confidence.
What is a bear market?
400
A formal legal document that provides details about an investment.
What is a prospectus?
500
A quality initiative that is statistically based, proactive, and long-term and that is designed to look at the overall business process to prevent problems.
What are Six Sigma initiatives?
500
According to this theory workers will be more productive when they know they are being studied.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
500
Checking and savings accounts are these types of accounts.
What are demand accounts?
500
The name for stock that will likely suffer the least amount of depreciation in a major recession.
What are defensive stocks?
500
This index does not include financial institutions but does include companies incorporated outside of the United States.