Business management

Business management

General business management terms encompassing inventory management, security management, financial administration, business planning, and management services for all enterprise-wide information systems.

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forecasting

Business administration; Business management

A series of techniques for trying to predict the future on the basis of known data, usually with regard to the economy or some aspect of it like sales, demand or the need for manpower planning. ...

algorithm

Business administration; Business management

A set of rules to be used in solving a problem. It usually takes the form of a fixed procedure with a logical sequence of steps. Extensively used in computer programs and systems analysis.

position analysis qestionnaire

Business administration; Business management

A written technique which asks people to keep a diary, along certain detailed and standardized lines, about what they actually do in their job as opposed to what they think they do or what they’re ...

Programme Evaluation and Review Technique

Business administration; Business management

The name of a particularly popular technique in critical path analysis.

rationalization

Business administration; Business management

(1) In psychoanalysis, this term is used to describe an ego defence in which a person justifies some action about which he has unconscious guilt feelings because he really knows he shouldn’t have ...

tax avoidance

Business administration; Business management

The legal attempt to reduce the burden of taxation on an individual or organization.

taxation

Business administration; Business management

The levying of compulsory charges on certain items by government, as a way of raising revenue for public services, and paid by individuals and organizations. These charges may be in the form of ...