Definitons of key terms in business studies...

*Partnership - A legal form of business organization in which two or more people - the partners - trade collectively. *Fixed Cost - Those costs, which, in the short run, do not vary with output. *Marketing - The business function that aims to link the business to the customer and aims to get the right product to the right place at the right time. *Market Segment - A part of the market for a product …showed first 75 words of 586 total…

…showed last 75 words of 586 total…Of Control - The business function that involves ordering, receiving, monitoring and issuing stocks. *Hierarchy - When an organization has different levels of management and staff, with higher levels exercising more authority and control. *Profit And Loss Account - The account that records all of a firm's revenues, costs and profit made over a specific trading period. *Balance Sheet - An accounting statement that values, at one point in time, an organization's assets and liabilities.