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- 5. Raising money using the owner’s resources or money from investors.
- 7. Responsibility for claims against the business that goes beyond the amount invested in the business and extends to one’s personal assets
- 10. The name given to a website; a web address.
- 15. A business that provides a service to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers.
- 16. A corporation owned by a small number of shareholders.
- 19. A business owned by, but existing separately from, its shareholders.
- 21. People who own shares in a corporation; also called stockholders.
- 23. An organization, often a charitable organization, that does not seek to make a profit from the operations of the business.
- 26. A place, or site, on the Internet where a business can be established and accessed by consumers.
- 27. An agreement between businesses to commit resources to achieve a common set of objectives.
- 28. The part of a corporation’s profit after taxes that each shareholder receives.
- 30. A business that produces goods for sale.
- 32. A group of individuals who run a corporation or co-operative and make decisions on behalf of the shareholders.
- 35. A business owned and operated by the provincial or federal government.
- 36. Short for “small office, home office,” SOHO are home-based businesses.
- 37. A business with 2 or more owners who share the responsibilities and profits/losses.
- 38. A business owned by one person, normally referred to as a proprietor.
- 39. Units of ownership in a corporation.
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- 1. Borrowing money to finance operations of the business.
- 2. A corporation with many shareholders, whose shares can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.
- 3. The money a business receives for the products and/or services it sells or from its investments.
- 4. The formal name of a city or town.
- 6. A business operating in or involving several nations. Also known as a transnational.
- 8. The parent company who grants the franchise and provides goods and/or services to the franchisees.
- 9. The legal document that establishes a partnership and each partner’s responsibility.
- 11. A process whereby one company combines with or takes over the ownership of one or more other companies.
- 12. The most common form of partnership, in which the partners share in responsibility, decision making, and profits. However, the partners have unlimited liability for the debts of the business.
- 13. Predicting future conditions.
- 14. A partnership in which the liability of each partner is limited to the amount of his or her investment.
- 17. A broad measure of a nation's total economic activity.
- 18. A business owned by members who use the goods and services offered.
- 20. The relocation of some of a company’s operations to another country.
- 22. The total value of all goods and services produced in a country during a specific period of time (including items produced by foreign-owned companies).
- 24. A restriction on the extent to which the shareholders (owners) of a corporation are personally responsible for its debts, limiting their liability to the amount they originally invested.
- 25. A business that buys goods and resells them to consumers.
- 29. Visits to the website by people using the Internet.
- 31. A business project that matches the skills of 2 individuals or businesses for mutual benefit.
- 33. A method of direct distribution that uses the Internet to sell products directly to consumers.
- 34. A person who runs a franchise operation and is under contract, or licensing agreement, with the franchiser.