Profit

The 4 Business Function

Operation

Marketing

Finance

Human Resources

Inputs

Outputs

Classifying Businesses

Characteristics of a Small Business

Characteristics of a Medium Business

Characteristics of a Large Business

Geographic Locations:

Industry

Legal Structures

Sole Trader

Partnership

Company

Business Life Cycle

Establishment

Strategies for the Establishment stage

Growth, Take - Off

Strategies for the Growth stage

Maturity, Saturation

Strategies for the Maturity stage

Post-Maturity, Regeneration, Revival

Strategies for Post-Maturity

Supply and Demand

Mergers

Acqusition

Mergers and Acquisitions are effective ways to:

Different Types of Mergers and Acquisition

Cessation

Voluntary Cessation

Involuntary Cessation

What is Accounting?

What is Finance