Student Achievement Series: Foundations of Business
ISBN: 9780618951932 | 0618951938
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/12/2008
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Student Achievement Series: Foundations of Business provides a brief survey of the major functional areas of business including management, marketing, accounting, finance, and information technology, as well as core topics such as ethics and social responsibility, forms of ownership, small business, and international business. The Student Achievement Series was developed in partnership with over 600 teachers and students from across the country to meet the learning, study, and assessment goals necessary for student success. Through extensive research and focus groups conducted with a diverse cross-section of students, Cengage Learning presents a groundbreaking solution for skills mastery, understanding, and retention. Feedback from students has been instrumental in all aspects of development--from design and pedagogy to testing and assessment to title and packaging. These elements culminate in a textbook program that reflects the way students learn and study best.
| Key Terms | |
| Why This Chapter Matters | |
| TheEnvironment of Business | |
| Exploring the World of Business and Economics | |
| Your Future in the Changing | |
| World of Business Business: A Definition Types of Economic | |
| Systems Measuring Economic Performance | |
| The Business Cycle | |
| Types of Competition | |
| American Business Today | ... MORE|
| Being Ethical and Socially | |
| Responsible Business Ethics | |
| Defined Ethical Issues | |
| Factors Affecting Ethical Behavior | |
| Encouraging Ethical Behavior | |
| The Evolution of Social Responsibility in Business | |
| Two Views of Social Responsibility | |
| Consumerism Employment Practices | |
| Concern for the Environment | |
| Implementing a Program of Social Responsibility | |
| Exploring Global Business | |
| The Basis for International Business | |
| Restrictions to International Business | |
| The Extent of International Business | |
| Methods of Entering | |
| International Business | |
| Sources of Export Assistance | |
| Trends in Business Today | |
| Understanding Information and e-Business | |
| How Can Information Reduce Risk | |
| When Making a Decision? | |
| Managers' Information Requirements | |
| How Do Employees | |
| Use an Information System | |
| Improving Productivity with the Help of Computers and Technology | |
| Using Computers and the Internet to Obtain | |
| Information Defining e-Business | |
| Fundamental Models of e-Business | |
| The Future of e-Business: Growth, Opportunities, and Challenges | |
| Choosing a Form of Business Ownership | |
| Sole Proprietorships Partnerships | |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Partnerships | |
| Corporations Advantages and Disadvantages of Corporations | |
| Special Types of Business | |
| Ownership Cooperatives, Joint Ventures, and Syndicates | |
| Corporate Growth | |
| Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Franchise | |
| Small Business: A Profile | |
| The People in Small Businesses: The Entrepreneurs | |
| The Importance of Small Businesses in Our Economy | |
| The Pros and Cons of Smallness | |
| The Small Business Administration Franchising | |
| The Growth of Franchising | |
| Management and Organization | |
| Understanding the Management Process | |
| What Is Management? | |
| Basic Management Functions | |
| Kinds of Managers | |
| What Makes Effective Managers? | |
| Leadership Managerial Decision | |
| Making Managing Total Quality | |
| What It Takes to Become a Successful Manager Today | |
| Creating a Flexible Organization | |
| What Is an Organization? | |
| Job Design Departmentalization | |
| Delegation, Decentralization, and Centralization | |
| The Span of Management | |
| Chain of Command: Line and Staff Management | |
| Forms of Organizational Structure | |
| Additional Factors | |
| That Influence an Organization | |
| Producing Quality Goods and Services | |
| What Is Production? | |
| The Conversion Process | |
| Where Do New Products and Services Come From? | |
| How Do Managers Plan for Production? | |
| Operations Control | |
| Management of Productivity and Technology | |
| Human Resources | |
| Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees | |
| Human Resources Management: An Overview Human | |
| Resources Planning Cultural | |
| Diversity in Human Resources | |
| Job Analysis Recruiting, Selection, and Orientation | |
| Compensation and Benefits Training and Development | |
| The Legal Environment of HRM | |
| Motivating and Satisfying | |
| Employees and Teams What Is Motivation? | |
| Historical Perspectives on Motivation | |
| Contemporary Views on Motivation Key Motivation | |
| Techniques Teams and Teamwork v. Marketing | |
| Building Customer Relationships | |
| Through Effective Marketing | |
| Marketing and the Management of Customer | |
| Relationships Utility: the Value Added by Marketing | |
| The Marketing Concept | |
| Markets and Their Classification | |
| Developing a Marketing Strategy | |
| Marketing Strategy and the Marketing Environment | |
| Developing a Marketing Plan Market | |
| Measurement and Sales Forecasting | |
| Marketing Information Types of Buying Behavior | |
| Creating and Pricing | |
| Products that Satisfy Customers Classification of Products | |
| The Product Life Cycle Product | |
| Line and Product Mix Managing the Product | |
| Mix Branding Packaging and Labeling | |
| Pricing Products | |
| Pricing Objectives | |
| Pricing Methods | |
| Pricing Strategies | |
| Pricing Business Products | |
| Distributing and Promoting | |
| Products Channels of Distribution Partnering | |
| Through Supply-Chain Management | |
| Marketing Intermediaries: Wholesalers | |
| Marketing Intermediaries: Retailers Physical Distribution | |
| What is Integrated Marketing Communications? | |
| The Promotion Mix: An Overview Advertising | |
| Personal Selling Sales | |
| Promotion Public Relations | |
| Accounting and Finance | |
| Using Accounting Information | |
| Why Accounting Information | |
| Is Important Who Uses Accounting Information | |
| The Accounting Process | |
| The Balance Sheet | |
| The Income Statement | |
| The Statement of Cash Flows | |
| Evaluating Financial Statements | |
| Mastering Financial Management | |
| What Is Financial Management? | |
| Planning--The Basis of Sound | |
| Financial Management | |
| Financial Services | |
| Provided by Banks and Other Financial | |
| Institutions Sources of Short-Term Debt | |
| Financing Sources of Equity Financing | |
| Sources of Long-Term Debt Financing | |
| Notes Credits | |
| Answers to Test Preppers Index | |
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