GCSE Business - Finance - Key Terms

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What is an Asset?
An item of property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
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What is an Average Rate of Return?
the average annual amount of cash flow generated over the life of an investment.
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What is a Break Even Chart?
a chart that shows the sales volume level at which total costs equal sales.
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What is a Break Even Output?
production level that achieves zero economic profit.
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What is Cash Flow Forecast?
a plan that shows how much money a business expects to receive in, and pay out, over a given period of time.
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What is Cash Inflow?
Cash inflow is the money going into a business.
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What is Cash Outflow?
Cash outflow is the amount of cash going out of a business
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What is Closing Balance?
A closing balance is the amount remaining in an account within your chart of accounts, positive or negative, at the end of an accounting period or year end.
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What is Cost?
An amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something.
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What are External Sources of Finance?
External sources of finance are those sources of finance which come from outside the business.
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What are Fixed Costs?
Business costs, such as rent, that are constant whatever the amount of goods produced.
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What are government grants?
A government grant is a financial award given by the federal, state, or local government authority for a beneficial project of some sort.
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What is Gross profit margin?
Gross margin is the difference between revenue and cost of goods sold divided by revenue.
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What is Hire Purchase?
a system by which one pays for a thing in regular instalments while having the use of it.
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What are liabilities?
Liabilities are defined as a company's legal financial debts or obligations that arise during the course of business operations.
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What are loans?
a thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.
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What is Margin of safety?
is how much output or sales level can fall before a business reaches its break-even point.
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What is mortgage?
A legal agreement that conveys the conditional right of ownership on an asset or property by its owner (the mortgagor) to a lender (the mortgagee) as security for a loan.
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What is net cash flow?
Is the company's cash inflows and outflows in a given period.
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What is net profit margin?
is the percentage of revenue left after all expenses have been deducted from sales.
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What is overdraft?
is an extension of credit from a lending institution that is granted when an account reaches zero.
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What is raising finance?
is the process of raising capital through the sale of shares.
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What is retained profit?
Retained profit is the profit kept in the company rather than paid out to shareholders as a dividend.
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What is revenue?
revenue is the income that a business has from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers.
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