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VOCABULARY 2
BANKING
- BONDS: are loans made to large organizations.
- SHARES: are units of ownership in a corporation or financial asset that provide for
an equal distribution in any profits, in form of dividends.
- SHAREHOLDER: any person, company, or other institution that owns at least one
share in a company.
- DIVIDENDS: is a distribution of a portion of a company’s earnings, decided by a
board of directors, to a class of its shareholders.
- STAKEHOLDER: can affect or be affected by the organization's actions,
objectives and policies. Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors,
directors, employees.
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHAREHOLDER AND STAKEHOLDER: The person
who owns the shares of the company is known as a Shareholder. The party, who
is having a stake in the company is known as Stakeholder. Only a company,
which is limited by shares have shareholders.
- STAKE: a share or a financial involvement in something such as a business.
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- BROKER: a person who buys and sells goods and assets for others.
- SECURITIES: financing or investment instruments bought and sold in financial
markets.
- PROFIT: money that is earned in trade or business after paying the cost of
production and selling goods and services.
- EARNINGS: obtain in return for labour or services.
- TURNOVER: the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period.
- PRICE-EARNING RATIO: is the ratio for valuing a company that measures its
current shares price relative to its shares earnings.
- STAKEHOLDER: an independent party with whom each of those who make a
wager deposit the money or counters wagered.
RETAILING
- BREAK EVEN: is the point at which total cost and total revenue are equal.
- MIDDLE MAN: a person who buys goods from producers and sells them to
retailers or consumers.
- DISPARITY: inequality.
- OVERHEAD: expense.
- MARK UP: fixed amount or the percentage of the total cost or selling price.
- COST: an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.
- FREIGHT: goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship or aircraft.
- NICHE: denoting or relating to products, services, or interests that appeal to a
small, specialized section of the population.
- SHIPPING: derived from relationship. When two people enter a relationship.
- WHOLESALER: Person or firm that buys large quantity of goods from various
producers or vendors, warehouses them, and resells to retailers
- FAIR TRADE: is a social movement whose stated goal is to help producers in
developing countries achieve better trading conditions and to promote
sustainable farming
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY.
- LIFE-WORK BALANCE: is the term used to describe the balance that an
individual needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life.
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- WELL-BEING: a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state
characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity;
- BLUFFING: Saying you have something that you don't
- BOX-TICKING EXERCISE: the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative
requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something.
- PROCUREMENT POLICY: is a structured procedure designed to consult the
market for the purchase of these goods and services.
- ADVOCATES: publicly recommend or support.
- GUIDELINES: is a statement by which to determine a course of action
- COMPELLED: force or oblige (someone) to do something.
- PUBLICITY: the giving out of information about a product, person, or company for
advertising or promotional purposes.
- DECEPTION: the act of making someone believe something that is not true
- PRIMARY PURPOSE:
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