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Outsourcing & offshoring

The process of contracting a business function to a third party, or to a supplier outside the home nation of the original business.

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recruitment announcement

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Instrument used to disseminate information; e.g., job duties, qualifications, salary, conditions of employment, etc. to recruit candidates to fill vacant positions.

rapid application development (RAD)

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

An approach based on the concept that products can be developed faster and of higher quality through: gathering requirements using workshops or focus groups; prototyping and ...

buyer

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A company/organization that buys services to a service provider or another company.

declining balance

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

The balance owing on a deduction which is taken in installments.

stop word

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

Stop words are words that are ignored by search engines when indexing web pages and processing search queries. Common words such as the.

straight-line depreciation

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

A depreciation method that allows equal deductions in each year of an asset's "life" or recovery period. (See "Accelerated depreciation. ")

filing status

Outsourcing & offshoring; Business process outsourcing (BPO)

One of four tax ranks determined by your marital status, your dependents and the way you file your tax return: (1) single, (2) married filing jointly, (3) married filing ...