Categories:Glossary

A

• Accounting
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Acid ratio
• Acquisition
• Activity-based costing (ABC)
• Affiliates
• Affiliate marketing
• Amortization
• Ancillary bond
• Annual receipts
• Appraised value
• Assets
• Assumptions
• Auction
• Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS)
• Automatic data processing
• Automation

B

• Bad debts
• Balance Ssheet
• Banking studies-lending studies
• Bankruptcy
• Best and final offer
• Bid bond
• Book value
• Boundaryless organization
• Break-even point
• Business Birth
• Business concern
• Business death
• Business dissolution
• Business failure
• Business incubator
• Business interruption insurance
• BusinessLINC
• Business plan
• Business start

C

• Canceled loan
• Cannibalization
• Capacity to repay
• Capital
• Capital expenditures
• Capitalization
• Capitalized property
• Caplines Loan program
• Carrying costs
• Cash-conversion cycle
• Cash discount
• Cash flow
• Cash-flow statement
• Contract Assistance for Women Business Owners (CAWBO)
• Commerce Business Daily CBD
• Central Contract Registration (CCR)
• Certified Development Company (CDC)
• Certified Lender Program
• Certificate of Competency Certificate of Competency (COC)
• Certificate of deposit
• Character
• Charged off loan
• Charge-off
• Civilian Agency Acquisition Council (CAAC)
• Closed loan
• Closing
• Cluster
• Collateral
• Collection policy
• Commercial Market Representatives (CMR)
• Commercial paper
• Community Adjustment and Investment Program (CAIP)
• Competitive analysis
• Compromise
• Conditions
• Consortium
• Constructive discharge
• Contingency fund
• Contingent liability
• Contract
• Contracting
• Contracting offer
• Contractor team arrangement
• Cooperative advertising
• Copyright
• Corporation
• Costs
• Covenant not to compete
• Credit
• Credit period
• Credit policy
• Credit rating
• Crisis management
• Current assets
• Current ratio
• Customer targeting

D

• Data element
• Debenture
• Debt capital
• Debt financing
• Debt to total assets ratio
• Deed of Trust
• Defaults
• Defense contractor
• Deferred Loan
• Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council (DARC)
• Defense Loan and Technical Assistance Program (DELTA)
• Depreciation schedule
• Desktop publishing
• Direct public offering
• Disabled
• Disaster
• Disaster area locations
• Disbursing officer
• Disbursement
• Disclaimer
• Discount interest rate
• Discounted cash flow (DCF)
• Disvestiture
• Diversification
• Double taxation

E

• Earning power
• Easement
• Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
• Export Assistance Center (EDI)
• Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS)
• Electronic data interchange (EDI)
• Employee
• Empowerment zone
• Enterprise
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• Entrepreneur
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC
• Equity
• Equity financing
• Equity partnership
• Equity financing
• Escrow accounts
• Establishment
• Export Assistance Center (EAC)

F

• Fair and reasonable price
• Fair market value
• Feasibility study
• Feedback
• Financial forecast
• Financial plan
• Financial ratio
• Financial report
• Financing
• Fiscal year
• Fixed asset]]
• Fixed cost
• Flow chart
• Focus group
• Foreclosure
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
• Franchise
• Franchise registry
• Franchising
• Franchisor
• Freeware
• Full and open Competition

G

• Gross domestic product (GDP)
• Geographic targeting
• Globalization
• Gross National Product (GNP)
• Goaling
• Goodwill
• Grant
• Green marketing
• Green production
• Groupthink
• Guarantee
• Guaranteed loan

H

• Hardware
• Hazard Insurance

I

• Income statement
• Incubator
• Industry
• Information broker
• Innovation
• Insolvency
• Installment loan
• Intellectual property
• Interest
• Intermediary
• Intermediary organization
• Internship
• Intranet
• Intrapreneur
• Inventory
• Inventory turnover
• Investment banking
• Invitation for bids
• Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB)
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

J

• Job description
• Joint venture
• Judgement
• Junk Bond

K

L

• Lease
• Lease rate
• Legal rate of interest
• Lending institution
• Lessee
• Lessor
• Leveraged buy out
• Liability
• License
• License business registration
• Lien
• Line of credit
• Liquidation
• Liquidation value
• Litigation
• Loan agreement
• Loan payoff amount
• Long term
• Loss leader pricing

M

• Management by Objectives (MBO)
• Market
• Market segmentation
• Markup
• Marketing
• Market value
• Markup
• Material requirements planning (MRP)
• Maturity
• Maturity extensions
• Media alerts
• Mentor
• Merger
• Mezzanine financing
• Microenterprise development
• Microloan program
• Money
• Money market
• Mortgage
• Multiple Employer Trust (MET)
• Mystery shopping

N

• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
• Natural Resources Assistance Program
• Negative net worth
• Negotiated grievance procedure
• Negotiation
• Negotiation dispute
• Net worth
• Nonmanufacturer
• Nonmanufacturer rule waivers
• Non set aside report
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Notes receivable
• New markets venture capital

O

• Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
• Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
• Open source
• Opportunity cost
• Ordinary interest
• Organizational life cycle (OLC)
• Original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
• Outlay

P

• Partnering
• Partnership
• Patent
• Payment bond
• Penetration pricing
• Performance bond
• Petty cash
• Plain language
• Precautionary balances
• Preferred lender program
• Prime
• Prime contract
• Prime rate
• Privacy
• Product liability
• Professional trade associations
• Pro forma statement
• Proprietorship
• Protege
• Protest
• Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTAC)

Q

• Qualified Employee Trusts Loan Program
• Quick Ratio

R

• Ratio
• Receivable Conversion Period (RCP)
• Reciprocal marketing
• Reciprocity
• Reengineering
• Regulatory fairness
• Return on investment (ROI)
• Revolving credit account
• Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
• Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Request for Quotation (RFQ
• Royalties

S

• SBIR contract
• Scalability
• SCORE
• Secondary market
• Selling a business
• Service mark
• Set-aside contract
• Shareware
• Short term
• Signage
• Simple interest rate loan
• Size standards
• Small business
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
• Small Business Investment Company (SBIC)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• Small Business Investment Act
• Small Business Technology Transfer Program (SBTTR)
• Small claims court
• Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB)
• Small Disadvantaged Business Concern
• Solvency
• Speculative Cash Balances
• Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC)
• Startup
• Subcontract
• Subcontracting
• Surety bond
• Sustainable growth rate (SGR)

T

• Tax
• Trademark
• Trade name
• Transaction balances
• Treasury bills
• True lease
• Turnover
• Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM)
• Total Quality Management (TQM)

U

• Undelivered orders
• Undercapitalization
• Unfair labor practice
• Uniform Commercial Code
• U.S. Export Assistance Center (USEAC)
• Usury

V

• Variable costs
• Venture capital
• Vendor Identification Program (VIP)
• Very Small Business Program (VSB)
• Valuation
• Value-added tax (VAT)
• Vertical marketing system (VMS)

W

• Workers compensation
• Working capital

X

Y

Z

• Zip