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Accounting

Business

Businesses and Organizations

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Human resources

Boulwarism - GE’s aggressive 20-year-long policy of “take-it-or-leave-it” bargaining.
Early youth permit
Employee relations
UCC-1 financing statement
Information interviews - see [1]
Inter-departmental relations
Jobsharing
Leader-Member exchange theory - see [2]
Restricted holiday
Staff retention
Stress in the workplace
Team action management as devised by Albert S Humphrey from SWOT analysis
Workforce development
JobPoint A computer terminal for searching for employment used by the jobcentre in the UK

Non-profits

The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions - Probably something that should be expanded in Islamic finance.
Aspen Centre for Integral Living - A registered non-profit society located in the Capital region of Alberta, Canada.
Australian Institute of Building - A non-profit professional institute operating in Australia and overseas, Incorporated by Royal Charter.
Bread for the Journey- A micro-granting organization that supports neighborhood philanthropy. http://www.breadforthejourney.org/
Camp JCA Shalom - A jewish camp in the Malibu mountains in Malibu, California
Children Of Bali - A Charity Supporting Balinese Kids School Education.
DHS Club Kids - United States based non-profit organization that helps feed, house and teach orphan kids throughout the world.
DiasPages - The First Not-For-Profit Community Yellow Pages.
Dial Before You Dig - A free public service that allows utilities such as Electricity and Phone to give plans to customers wishing to work in the area.
Heaven's M.A.G.I.C. (Miraculous Angelic Giving Inspirational Child) - A 501c3 created by Laura Ann Osterman and her fifth grade students at Immaculate Heart Academy in Tucson, Arizona on February 14, 2000.
Alternative Energy Foundation - Group that raises money to fund alternative energy research projects
Alternative Spring Break (UIUC) - The volunteer organization at the University of Illinois?
Clean Up the Philippines - An environmental volunteer organization in the Philippines.
Dream Camp -
Dream Change -
Fiscal Sponsorship -
FLOW : Idealism -
Full Gospel Evangelistic Association - Ministry for training, licensing and ordaining Chrisitian Ministers.
Heal The World Foundation - Michael Jackson's charity formed in 1992, died due to lack of finances.
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction -
Hivos - Dutch NPO which is for ICT4D for children & women as well as open access to all.
Hope for success - Charity that helps children through homework assistance, resides in Alabama.
Inspire Every Child - provides free children's books to charities which promote early literacy
The Institute Of Fraud Risk Management - Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist (CITRMS) is a course specifically developed to train and equip professionals to understand and address Identity Theft and related fraud. It addresses risks and issues for consumers, employees, and businesses / professional practices.
Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science - Provides resources and training for educators and employers to recruit and retain women to male-dominated fields
International Forestry Students' Association -
International Institute Of Business Analysis
International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB)
Ironbridge Railway Trust
Isara.org - webportal charity providing education and health resources in Thailand
Manhattan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce - 2006 NYC's Minority and Women Business Enterprise Chamber Challenge Champion
Michigan Audubon Society Michigan's First Conservation Organization. Connecting People and Birds for the benefit of both. Owns 19 bird sanctuaries.
Romanian Children's Relief, Fundatia Inocenti, a 501c3 charity dedicated to preventing child abandonment in Romania.
Sock Monkey Ministries - Outreach ministry that provides handmade sock monkeys to orphans, cancer patients, military soldiers, and those in need of encouragement. To date have sent out over 4000 sock monkeys ??
SoftwareCEO - Page One for Software Executives
Skillshare International - British international development organisation employing professional people in Africa and Asia.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy - For more than 25 years, SACE, 501(c)3, has worked to promote responsible energy choices throughout the Southeast.
StartingBloc -
Space Foundation - A organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA that promotes the development of space and education about space.
Tolerance in Diversity (TiD) -
Tree Trust - Minnesota organization focused on employment training and community greening
STUP - Staro Trnje Uredjuje Prostor -
Eden Mill Nature Center - Pylesville, MD
Toronto Humane Society the largest animal shelter in Canada is also Canada's first no-kill shelter
Council of Development Finance Agencies - organization representing the concerns of the development finance industry. - www.cdfa.net
Nourish International - a student movement to eliminate poverty through innovation based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Flopopeeps - A non-profit group that produces quality videos for free download and embedding.
Toromat1 Games - A small norwegian computer game developer.
MASA Israel Journey - An Israeli based nonprofit in conjunction with the Israel government
Canadian Islam Centre - For over 60 years the Canadian Islamic Centre/Al Rashid Mosque has been serving the Muslim community of Edmonton and northern Alberta - www.alrashidonline.com.
Street News - The street newspaper of New York that inspired The Big Issue.

People

Please request articles about people in business in Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and Economics/People in business, not here.

Tumai Water- 15-25% go to digging wells in Africa and other Countries

Terminology (Business)

A-C

ABC Factors
A-charge
Account map
Age Analysis or the process therof
Ad Value Equivalency - A.k.a. "AVE"
Arc of distortion
Asset light
Asset strip
APN-A? Parcel number - Real estate term, to identify property by size, lot, etc.
Appropriation request
Balance of plant -
Business promotion plan -
Business Development Services - Term used to refer to non-financial services offered to (esp.) small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Buying cycle -
CBB prime rate - for US banks
CAP Competitive Access Provider - 1980's precursor to the 1990's ISP Internet Service Provider
Capitalization schedule
Cardholder Funds Transfer
Carried interest (Venture capital)
Cause branding
Certified Business Location - evidently a designation awarded to cities and counties in (at least) Virginia and West Virginia, as posted at the entrances to these jurisdictions
Cluster strategy - A method for monitoring expenditure of funds; a more specific definition would be most welcome! -
CMII Standard
Commercial Director
Construction Industry Institute-
Cost Allocation-
Cost sharing
Co-processing
Corporate banking
Corporate elite
Consumption polarity
Contract Manufacturing Organization (recently listed at CMO) -
Control Self-Assessment
Control thresholds
Cram down

D-F

The Digital Firm- Understanding its effects on the marketplace. See Laudon, Laudon. “The Digital Firm.” Management Information System. Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle River. 2004.
Direct Store Delivery where manufacturers deliver product directly to retail outlets bypassing a 3rd party Distributor
Directional Movement Index- how to calculate the value?
Dunning level - Please expand Dunning (process) instead.
Director Emeritus - Please define. - 2 commonplace words, see Director#business and emeritus
E3value
Economic diversification -
Electronic customer relationship marketing (eCRM) - see CRM.
Effective buying income
Engagement director (a designation)
Exempt Employee - A. Usually equivalent to 'ineligible for overtime' in US; used to denote employees in first-level mgmt and above. Prob. derived from 'exempt from collective bargaining/organised labour agreements'.
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External shock
Exchange of Futures for Swaps (EFS)
Enclave economy
Family limited partnership
Financial databases
Firm element (SEC-required continuing education)
First-line supervisor
First offer last call
For-Profit Organization
Flood marketing
FCCB - foreign currency convertible bonds
Fuel Hedging or just hedging in general. See hedge (finance).
Full cost of production as in cost of production to society and environment etc.

G-M

Gas jockey (Gas station attendant) -
Global Trade Management -
Hot capital
Hype circle
Hystersis
Industry protection
Information system architecture
Ingoing premium
Inside sales Cmmt. Sales channel staffed by employees, as distinct from outside sales, staffed by a 3rd party.
International strategic alliance
Juridisation
Kano curve
Lake Wobegon Strategy -
Lean Sigma (business process methodology related to Six Sigma) -
Level-of-effort (contractual term) -
Leveraged portfolio -
Locational coupling
Mall merchandising -
Mandatory tender offer -
Manpower Buildup Index -
Marginal Budget Shares -
Market skimming -
Minority Women Business Enterprise -
Minimalist architecture -
Mill Test Report (Steel Prducts/ Manufacturing)-

N-Z

Net Event -
New political economy -
Non group insurance -
Libor-OIS spread - article urgently needed for understanding current financial crises. We have Libor and we have OIS but not the spread, which is the most salient and useful metric.
Organization dynamic
One-off Items
Paired choice matrix -
Public Deficit -
Pitchbook -
Platform company -
Press room -
Quote to cash - Collection of business processes related to managing a lead into a sale
Rationalized structure -
recapitalize/recapitalizing
Results based management - lots of references in the documents of the UK and related agencies (OECD etc.),
Rural Enterprise - references to enterprise agencies e.g. DEFRA, business support, networking, grants
Savings and credit cooperative (SACCO)
SB-Discount
Schedule manipulation
Standard carrier alpha codes (SCAC) - Four-letter transportation carrier codes
Statutory liability
Stimulus (economics) - used in many articles on economy topics, but never explained
Strategic staircase [3]
Sunday contract
Surgical marketing
Totally Engaged and Meaningful - (under construction) describes the attitude and actions of a group in accomplishing a common goal. Totally Engaged refers to the focus of the group on its specific project. Meaningful refers to the focus on specific and relevant work pertaining to the achievement of the common goal.
Turtle trading system
Underwriting rate
Universe analysis - I've heard it mention in a marketing context.

Law firms

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Management

Lists/Overall

Other

Anthony Triangle
BioKleen - A cleaning product company
Carlos V (candy bar) - In Spanish Wikipedia es:Carlos V (chocolate)
Contingent Workforce Management
Voloper Global Merchant
Zimmerman Advertising-Largest advertising agency in the Southeast US
Virtual Business Libraries such as www.marketinghelponline.com
Jeremy G-My district manager loves me

Economics

Modern Western economy
Factors of Competition
Decision Making Sciences
Resource cycle
MEA Mannheim - "Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging" (MEA) associated with University of Mannheim (also listed in this article).
Economic History of Saudi Arabia
Stern Stewart & Co
Frontier Economics Limited

Terminology (Economics)

Academic Consortium of International Trade
A.N.E.A. -
Circular economy - New principle in Chinese economic development.
Consumer cyclical sector (or perhaps consumer sector)
Corporateering -
Earning power of money -
EOU Status -
Export supply curve -
Financial rationalism -
Folk economics -
Individual budget constraint -
Marshall and Swift Cost Index - Cost estimation for engineering equipment
Mild-after-water proposal -
Open offer or Open offering - Special kind of a capital increase of joint-stock companies
R.S. Means -
Segment Operation Income -
Taxation in Japan -
Transfer problem -
The Web-Bot Project -
Williamson trade-off -
Working document -
Revenue tariff - Sound like income tax, not?

Economic policy

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity -
Domestic Discretionary Spending -
Economic censorship - how profit motive in the "free" world is used to censor content
Export tax
Mexico Totalization Agreement -
National plan -
Super 301 - Section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974
Totalization Agreements -
tendenziale - Italian economics
UNIDROTT
State-Managed Capitalism
Beer distribution
Policy dialogue - a common concept in business
U.S. Tort Liability System-something to do with medical malpractice, i don't understand it, there are no clear definitions out there.
Merchant Marine Act of 1928 - Also known as the "Jones-White Act". See [4] for more info on the act. Wikipedia lists the acts of 1920 and 1936, but not the 1928 - the 1928 act links into my rewriting of American President Lines. However, I know nothing about it at all apart from that link and a source for the APL article - maybe someone else knows more.

Economists

Dr. Hari Bansh Jha - one of the senior most economists of Nepal and highly qualified academician.www.cets.org.np
Nugent-Smith, Jerome Patrick - International economist and educator.
Derek Abell inventor of the Abell model
Andrews, Philip Walter Sawford - ((1914-1971), fellow at Nuffield and subsequently professor of economics at Lancaster University (1967-71) cited in Umberto Meoli.
Brunner, Elizabeth - (1920-1983) Professor of Economics cited in Umberto Meoli.
John Bell Condliffe who?-
Brendan J Dames who? -
Arindrajit Dube - labor economist from Stanford, PhD from University of Chicago, currently at Berkley.
Manuel Fernández López - Specialist in History of Economic Thinking, FCE, University of Buenos Aires
Michael Grubb - UK based energy and environmental economist. Author of The Kyoto Protocol: a guide and assessment.
Jim Jubak - Jim Jubak is senior markets editor for MSN Money.
Sheen T. Kassouf - b.1929-d.200? PhD Economics, Columbia University 1965; Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of California Irvine.
Walter P. Stern - Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Board Member; Executive Committee Member of the Hudson Institute
Tommy Wimmer b. 1993 American millionaire
Matías Kulfas who?-
Daniel Marx who?-
Tim Leunig who?-
Carlos A. Melconian who?-
Sam I Nakagama who?-
Julio H. G. Olivera who? -
James E. Pesando who?-
Federico Pinedo who?-
J. Siobhan "Spricey" Price who?-
George Henry Soule who?-
Juan Vital Sourrouille who?-
Janet Stotsky who?
August Sartorius von Waltershausen whp?
Sir Edward F. West whp?-
Edward Wolff works on inequality, wrote Economics of Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination. Teaches at NYU. (http://www.nyu.edu/econ/dept/vitae/wolff.htm)
Alfredo Zaiat who?-
Brendan McEvoy - An economic researcher at the National University of Australia, is nationally renowned.

Economic theory and history

#-K:

1976 IMF Crisis - in Britain
Asian Economic Model - The "Asian Way". cmmt: Web search turns up some references
Buyer's Panic
Casualties of Telecom cases
Charles Kindleberger -
Consumer Awareness -
Coopertition -
Complete Survey Enumeration Method-
The Counter-Veblen Effect -
Dynamic asset pricing - Asset pricing in terms Euler equations - ie. p_t=E[m_t+1·x_t+1].
Divine Right of Capital -
Excess Demand Function -
E-loyalty -
Economic History of Russia -
Economic Indicators(Latest)for Massachusetts-
Educational economics -
Engineering fallacy -
Ever Normal Granary -
Economic institutions -
Export Pessimism
Quadra Wilcox
Faustmann Model -
Financial instability hypothesis
Greenbackism-
History of Cooperatives in Canada -
History of Mexican Government -
Horulism -
Interim efficient (now a redirect)
IRR Modeling -
Kano analysis -
Principle of Maximum Ruin -

L-R:

List of countries by economic growth -
Loan Balance
Mandrake Mechanism - recently given on NPR as a reason not to worry about the deficit How the Fed creates liquidity - seems to be a possibly perjorative description of how, in the opinion of some, central banks are able to print money without adding reserves in a 1-to-1 ratio. These people often advocate that such a reserve requirement should be imposed. The name derives from Mandrake the magician and seems designed to liken the addition of liquidity to a conjuring trick.
Median Location -
Mercatocracy -
Money-in-the-utility-function models (now a redirect)
MyLot
New Economic Geography -
No regret options -
Northern Ark - The trade network of the Norse
Natural Progress of Opulence -
Outcarving
Pig Cycle - see Pork_cycle
Potential Value -
Pre-fisc (now a redirect)
Precautionary savings -
Private ordering -
Probabilistic Voting -
Property-based Economics -
Proprietary Assets -
Rationality : Substantive Vs Procedural -
Real price rigidity -
Rehn-Meidner model -
Residual risk-bearer -
Retail cycle -
Return to skills -
The Rhetoric of Reaction (book by Albert O. Hirschman)
Romer Model

S-Z:

Sample Survey Enumeration Method-
Signal-Jamming - Explained core principles - article including examples: Fudenberg, D. & Tirole, J. (1986) - A signal-jamming theory of predation, Rand Journal of Economics, 17, pp. 366–376
Single Market, costs and threats to UK businesses -
Smithian growth (now a redirect)
Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem
Sovjós -
Staggered contracting (now a redirect)
Swill children - poor children of the mid 1800s in larger cities who searched for scraps of clothing and other garbage to sell
Tapered integration
Team production (now a redirect)
Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit -
Terje Hansen -
Thermodynamics and economics -
Topline Inflation -
Treadmill of production - environmental-sociologial term (Schnaiberg)regarding capitalism's inherent tendency to expand.
Treadmill of destruction - environmental-sociologial term regarding the ill effects of controlled growth.
Trillion dollar club of world economies (referenced in South Korea) -
Twentieth century global economy (economic history) -
Two-factor model
Union threat model (now a redirect)
Uneven and Combined Development -
Vienna Stock Exchange, collapse of, on May 9, 1873
Wage unit, Keynes -
Windfall loss
Rapha Christian Fellowship

Econometrics

A-I:

Arrow-Lind principle -
Asymptotically equivalent -
Accisa-debate
Baxter-King filter -
Bayesian VAR (Vector Autoregression)
Dynamic optimization -
Data, observations vs experimental
Error-correction model -
Essentially stationary -
Full information maximum likelihood -
Fisher consistency -
Grenander conditions -
Ichimoku Chart -
Incidental parameters -
Inflationary Bias - The tendency of a public debt-ridden nation to adapt policies which encourage inflation in the medium/long term. The contention is that there is no way to escape this cause of inflation, but not doing anything about it can be fatal to the economy. More later.
Integrated System Analysis - Analysis of markets, determinants and market interventions
0% finance - ie. buy now, pay later. How a company makes profit by sacrificing interest. (1) decreased negotiation power of the buyer, (2) moving inventory out frees resources, (3) instalments are spaced closer or are of much larger amounts thereby mitigating the loss of interest.

J-R:

J statistic
KPSS test -
Locally asymptotically normal -
Least squares learning -
Limited dependent variable -
Limited information maximum likelihood -
List of current and historic Net Food Importers and Exporters -A list of the current status of countries food trade as well as the status of various countries just before important historical events (example: Germany Before 1939). Would eventually like to get statistics for each country going going back for the the past hundred years or so (even further would be great but I imagine they would be difficult to come across).As well as Estimated world food production. Feel free to move this if you feel theres a better place for it just wanted to get it in the right neighborhood. Yum299 (talk) 20:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Locally identified -
Lower hemicontinuous
Maximum score estimator -
New empirical industrial organisation model
Partially linear model -
Phillips-Perron test -
Prais-Winsten transformation -
Quasi-likelihood ratio statistic -
Quasi-differencing -
Reduced Form Regression -
Ridit scoring -
Robust smoother -
Roughness penalty -