Business

4. - a portion of a business's profits distributed to the owners and shareholders.
5. - a special type of long term loan that is used to purchase land or buildings.
7. capital is the money invested into a business and is used to purchase a range of assets including machinery and stocks.
10. - a period when GDP decreases for two or more successive quarters.
12. expenditure revenue expenditure refers to the purchase of items such as fuel and raw materials that will be used up within a short period of time.
14. rate - the cost of borrowing money; expressed as a percentage of the amount borrowed.
15. cost - the potential cost of missing an opportunity by choosing one option and foregoing another.
16. - small loans that enable someone to start up or continue to finance a small-scale business; a subset of microfinance.
17. - a situation where an insolvent business has to follow a legal process to settle its debts.
18. - a medium or long-term source of finance, often used to buy fixed assets.
19. capital - finance for a business that is raised through the issue of shares to new investors on a stock market.
20. - a business owned and run by two or more people who share the responsibility for the business and the profits; there is no legal separation between the business and the owners.

1. expenditure is the spending by a business or non current assets which will be used for more than one year, such as premises, production equipment and vehicles.
2. - a high-cost, short term loan attached to a bank account; I lost their account holder to withdraw an amount of money that is greater than the amount they currently hold.
3. profit - money that a company has left at the end of the trading year after paying all cost, expenses, dividends and taxes.
6. - a license or grant that gives an inventor that exclusive right to make, use or sell a product for a specific period of time.
8. - an item or property that has value and is owned by a person or business.
9. - initial public offering is a situation where a company sells all or part of the business to external shareholders for the first time.
11. sources of finance - money for a business that is raised from a business's or owner's existing assets.
13. - an asset that a business or individual can offer a lender in the event that they do not pay back a loan.
16. - financial services provided to individuals who have very limited income and assets, and are not able to get services from traditional banks.