Across
- 3. business that provides banking services for profit.
- 4. An asset is usually purchased or, equivalently, a deposit is made in a bank, in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it.
- 6. a study undertaken by an organization to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.
- 9. where a person's financial liability is limited to a fixed sum, most commonly the value of a person's investment in a company or partnership
- 12. A form of protection that provides a person or legal entity with exclusive rights for making, using or selling a concept or invention
- 13. Direction of change that impacts the entire world
- 14. Companies or institutions joining to reduce costs and combine products or services
- 15. A business that legally has no separate existence from its owner
- 16. refers to sole proprietorships and general partnerships in which the owner or partners are each liable for business debts.
- 18. The forth stage in the life cycle of a business
- 20. capital typically provided by outside investors for financing of new, growing, or struggling businesses.
Down
- 1. point when the total revenue exactly matches the total costs and the business is not making a profit or a loss.
- 2. summary of how a business owner, manager, or entrepreneur intends to organize an entrepreneurial endeavor and implement activities necessary and sufficient for the venture to succeed.
- 5. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law
- 7. an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise
- 8. acts as an agent that provides financial services for its clients. Common types of financial institutions include banks, building societies, credit unions, stock brokerages, and similar business.
- 10. each member gets one vote to make decisions
- 11. A legal form of business operation between two or more individuals who share management and profits.
- 17. a not-for-profit co-operative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members, through the election of a volunteer Board of Directors elected from the membership itself.
- 19. a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation