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Financial managers: those managers are responsible for planning and overseeing the financial resources of the firm. Finance (corporate finance): the bu

Stocks and bonds are known as securities because they represent secured or asset based claims on the part of the investor. Primary security markets: th

Money: any object generally accepted by people as payment for goods and services. Features of money: portability, divisibility, durability, stability.

Distribution mix: the combination of distribution channels a firm selects to get a product to end- users. purpose of distribution: make to product easy

Promotion: any technique designed to sell a product. 2 general values to be gained from any promotional activity: communicating information (to influen

Pricing: deciding what the company will receive in exchange for its product. Pricing objectives: goals that producers hope to attain in pricing product

Features: the qualities both tangible and intangible that a company builds into its products. Value package: product marketed as a bundle of value addi

Accounting : a comprehensive system of collecting, analyzing, and communicating financial information. Purpose: measure business performance (e. g. $ s

Productivity : a measure of efficiency that compares how much is produced with the resources used to produce it. Productivity considers both the amount

Deconstruction means taking something apart and seeing how it was built and what it is made of. North american continent shows 5 growth stages: artica

Hadean was the first time on earth, nicknamed hell on earth , beacuase the rocks were molten, no ocean, no atmosphere. But then the world differentiate

Rheology: the ability to flow, how easy it is for something to flow. Pyroclastic (broken by fire): these are rocks that are shattered by the power of t

As the oceanic crust moves away from the ridge, it expands and is thicker due to the cooling process: this leads to the ocean floor to start to subduct

Continents dome because of a plume of hot mantle and develops a triple junction (three major fraction that can be various km wide [each of these arms i

As you go down in depth it gets hotter 2. 5 degrees centigrade for every 100m. What we know about the earth"s surface is the result of geophysics, the

Democratizing states are more likely to fight wars than are mature democracies or stable autocracies. Anocracies: political systems in which democratic

The failure of states (due to a lack of control, catch 22) is accompanied by privatization of violence. Revolutionary warfare: get control of territory

Postconflict reconstruction: includes providing and enhancing not only social and economic well-being and governance and the rule of law but also other

Glacial erratic: rocks that picked up by glaciers and deposited elsewhere. Supercontinent: all the continents together; called pangea, greek words: pan

Business: an organized effort to provide things that customers want to buy ability to provide the things that people want to buy. Operations: the direc