Across
- 2. purpose of business, number of shares of stock, and other features of the business
- 5. places where entrepreneurs can receive the training to build a successful start-up business.
- 7. merger combination of firms involved in different steps of manufacturing, marketing, or sales.
- 11. check paid to stockholders, usually quarterly, representing portion of corporate profits
- 13. investors informal and usually affluent investors who provide funds to less-promising start-ups.
- 14. gradual wear on capital goods.
- 16. capitalist provider of investment funds to a start-up business in exchange for partial ownership of the business.
- 17. written government approval to establish a corporation; includes company name,
- 18. measure of business profits determined by subtracting all expenses, including taxes, from revenues
- 19. merger combination of firms producing the same kind of product.
- 20. unincorporated business owned and run by a single person who has rights to all profits and unlimited liability for all debts of the firm; most common form of business organization in the United States
- 21. requirement that an owner is personally and fully responsible for all losses and debts of a business; applies to proprietorships and general partnerships
Down
- 1. stock of goods held in reserve; includes finished goods waiting to be sold and raw
- 3. corporation producing and selling without regard to national boundaries and whose business activities are located in several different countries.
- 4. report showing a business’s sales, expenses, and profits for a certain period, usually three months or a year.
- 6. people who own a share or shares of stock in a corporation
- 8. firm with four or more businesses making unrelated products, with no single business responsible for a majority of its sales.
- 9. using social networking to appeal to potential investors.
- 10. form of business organization recognized by law as a separate legal entity with all the rights and responsibilities of an individual, including the right to buy and sell property, enter into legal contracts, and to sue and be sued
- 12. to be used in production
- 15. total amount of new funds the business generates from operations; broadest measure of profits for a firm because it includes both net income and noncash charges.
- 22. formal contract to repay borrowed money and interest on the borrowed money at regular future intervals