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Actuarial science
Discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance, finance, and other industries
Bankruptcy
Legal status for relief from debts
Board of directors
Type of governing body for an organisation
Business
Organization undertaking commercial, industrial, or professional activity
Business cycle
Fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy
Capital (economics)
Already-produced durable goods that are used in production of goods or services
Commerce
Exchange of goods and services
Competition law
Law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies
Corporate governance
Mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated
Corporate law
Body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses
E-commerce
Type of business industry usually conducted over the internet
Economic security
Having stable income or other resources to support a standard of living now and in the foreseeable future
Entrepreneurship
Taking financial risks in the hope of profit
Free trade
Absence of government restriction on international trade
Informal economy
Economic activity unregulated by government
International trade
Exchanges across international borders
Logistics
Management of the flow of resources
Management
Coordinating the efforts of people
Mergers and acquisitions
Type of corporate transaction
Monopoly
Market structure with a single firm dominating the market
Pension
Retirement fund
Pension fund
Program, fund, or scheme that provides retirement income
Perfect competition
Market structure in which firms are price takers for a homogenous product
Principal–agent problem
Conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf
Productivity
Average measure of the efficiency of production
Profit maximization
Process to determine the highest profits for a firm
Project management
Practice of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and criteria at a specified time
Property
Entity owned by a person or a group of people
Protectionism
Economic policy of restraining trade between states through government regulations
Real estate
Subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts
Supply chain
System involved in supplying a product or service to a consumer
Supply chain management
Management flow of goods and services
Trade
Exchange of goods and services.