Business Practice


 * advance
 * affairs
 * alien corporation
 * amalgamation
 * annual report
 * annual review
 * ante
 * application
 * articles of incorporation
 * assembly line
 * assignment
 * bailout
 * bankroll
 * bankruptcy
 * belly up
 * big business
 * board of directors
 * bonus
 * bottom line
 * bubble company
 * budget
 * budgeting
 * business
 * buyout
 * capital-intensive
 * capitalization
 * cash cow
 * cash flow
 * ceiling
 * channels
 * Chapter 11
 * charger
 * close
 * closed corporation
 * co-op
 * collapsible corporation
 * collection division
 * collusion
 * commission
 * compagnie
 * company
 * concern
 * concession
 * conglomerate
 * consideration
 * consolidation
 * consortium
 * contract
 * controlling interest
 * corner
 * corporate veil
 * corporation
 * cost overrun
 * cost-effective
 * cottage industry
 * crapshoot
 * cut a check
 * cutback
 * dba
 * deal
 * dealings
 * diminishing returns
 * dissolution
 * diversification
 * divestiture
 * dividend
 * economize
 * endowment
 * enterprise
 * escalator clause
 * establishment
 * fee
 * firm
 * Fortune 500
 * foundation
 * franchise
 * funding
 * go public
 * golden parachute
 * goodwill
 * ground floor
 * growth area
 * growth company
 * grubstake
 * hardball
 * headhunting
 * holding company
 * home office
 * honorium
 * horizontal merger
 * house
 * incentives
 * industry
 * institution
 * interlocking directorates
 * investment
 * labor-intensive
 * license
 * liquidation
 * lose one's shirt
 * management
 * market research
 * market share
 * memo to the file
 * memorandum
 * merger
 * mommy track
 * moneymaker
 * multinational corporation
 * nonprofit corporation
 * number-cruncher
 * operating expenses
 * operations research
 * organization
 * overbudget
 * overhead
 * Pac-Man defense
 * Parkinson's law
 * parlay
 * partnership
 * patent
 * pension fund
 * perk
 * perquisite
 * personnel
 * Peter Principle
 * petty cash
 * philanthropy
 * plant
 * poison pill
 * positioning
 * privately held corporation
 * profit motive
 * prospectus
 * proxy fight
 * public corporation
 * public relations
 * public-service corporation
 * quality assurance
 * quality control
 * realize
 * receivership
 * reinvest
 * retainer
 * royalty
 * seed money
 * sole proprietorship
 * speculation
 * spin-off
 * staff
 * start-up company
 * start-up expenses
 * stock
 * subcontract
 * subsidiary
 * sunrise industry
 * sunset industry
 * syndicate
 * syndication
 * take a bath
 * takeover
 * tender
 * trade association
 * trade convention
 * undercapitalized
 * undertaking
 * underwrite
 * up-front
 * upside
 * ventue
 * venture capitalism
 * vertical merger
 * wheel and deal
 * white knight
 * windfall profit
 * working capital
 * working vacation