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"Symbols 1996 Telecommunications Act, 45 5Ps, 460, 493 A Abbott, 76 Abercrombie, 214 Absolut, 118 absolute advantage, 93, 122 Accenture, 66 account payable, 623 Accounting, 542 accounting, 571 accounts payable, 645 Accounts receivable, 620 accounts receivable, 645 Ace Hardware, 146, 146 acid-test (quick) ratio, 563, 571 acquisition, 155, 161 Activity ratios, 566 activity ratios, 571 Acuity, 74 Adelphia, 541 administrative law, 685 ADT, 156 advertising, 475, 493 advertising media, 478, 493 Aetna, 529, 529 affirmative action programs, 321, 325 agency shop, 312, 325 Agents, 461 agents, 493 AICPA Auditing Standards Board, 548 AIG, 591 Airbus, 99, 217, 218, 218, 218, 218 Airbus Industries, 45 Aite Group, 604 Albertson’s, 120, 120, 121 Alcoa, 76, 316 Alcon Labs, 288 Alibaba, 505 Alibaba.com, 156 Allegheny Ludlum, 437 Alphabet, 137, 139 Altria Group, 156, 629 Altria Group, Inc., 66 Amazon, 11, 15, 18, 157, 157, 157, 173, 175, 221, 275, 323, 323, 352, 416, 448, 449, 491, 511, 513, 530, 530, 627, 639 Amazon Music, 416 American Airlines, 296, 414 American Bar Association, 139 American Building Restoration Products, 106 American Cancer Society, 13, 490 American Eagle, 214 American Express, 65, 76, 76, 450, 527, 529, 529 American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organization, 309 American Heart Association, 423 American Institute of CPAs, 546 American Leather, 375 American Red Cross, 12, 76, 423 American Stock Exchange, 635, 637 Americans with Disabilities Act, 319 Angel investors, 190 angel investors, 203 annual report, 545, 571 antitrust regulation, 692 Aon Hewitt, 322 Apollo Global Management, 156 appellate courts (courts of appeals), 686 Arbitration, 315 arbitration, 325, 687 Arbitron, 432 Ariel, 118 Arthur Andersen, 541 assembly process, 376, 401 assembly-line, 382 Assets, 549 assets, 571 Associa, 355 AT&T, 45, 66, 94, 105, 155, 155, 160, 321, 508, 637 Audi, 511 audience selectivity, 480, 493 Auditing, 546 auditing, 571 Authority, 263 authority, 277 Autocratic leaders, 221 autocratic leaders, 239 Autodesk, 217, 217 Avon, 413 Axia Home Loans, 358, 358 AzkoNobel NV, 111 B B Corps, 74 B Lab, 74 balance of payments, 91, 122 balance of trade, 91, 122 balance sheet, 554, 571 bank charter, 594, 608 Bank of America, 300 Bank of America Merrill Lynch, 631 Bank of New York, 119 Bankruptcy, 691 barriers to entry, 44, 50 BASF, 115, 115 batch processing, 516, 532 Bayer, 76 Bear Stearns, 591, 591 Beecham, 115 Bell Labs, 418, 418 Ben & Jerry’s, 65, 65, 74 Benefit segmentation, 431 benefit segmentation, 451 Berkshire Hathaway, 139, 139 Best Buy, 291, 291 Bethlehem Steel, 338 Bezos, 173, 175, 175, 175, 221, 221 big data, 449, 451 bill of material, 383, 401 Bissell, 118 Black & Decker, 437 blockchain technology, 388, 401 Bloomberg, 627 Bloomberg Businessweek , 475 Blue Apron, 627, 630 Blue Diamond, 146 Index Index 721 BMW, 380, 418, 511 BNSF Railway, 292, 296 board of directors, 141, 161 Boeing, 45, 99, 99, 110, 119, 137, 217, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 218, 292, 530, 625, 625 Bolthouse Farms, 67 bond ratings, 634, 645 Bonds, 626 bonds, 645 Bosch, 118 BP, 48 brainstorming, 440, 451 breach of contract, 689 breaking bulk, 465, 493 Brexit, 604 Bristol Tennessee Essential Services, 393 Bristol-Meyers Squibb, 520 Bristol-Myers Squibb, 520 Broadcom, 528, 528 broker market, 636 broker markets, 645 brokers, 461, 493 Brookfield Asset Management, 157 Brookfield Business Partners, 157 Brown-Forman, 114 Bundling, 447 bundling, 451 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 29, 320, 360, 546 business, 12, 50 business cycles, 29, 50 Business law, 686 business plan, 186, 187, 203 Business Process Management, 399 business process management (BPM), 401 buy-national regulations, 97, 122 Buyer behavior, 423 buyer behavior, 451 buyer cooperative, 161 Buyer cooperatives, 146 C C corporation, 143, 161 Cabela’s, 471, 471, 471 Cabot Creamery Co-op, 74 Cacharel, 107 CAD/CAM systems, 395, 401 Calavo, 146 California Pizza Kitchen, 430 CAMI Automotive, 107 Campbell Soup, 437 Campbell Soup Company, 65, 66, 67 Campbell’s soups, 475 capital, 15, 50 capital budgeting, 622, 645 capital expenditures, 622, 645 Capital products, 436 capital products, 451 Capitalism, 24 capitalism, 50 Carbone Smolan Agency, 294 Cardianove, 395, 395 CareerBuilder, 360 Cargill, 627 Carnival Cruise Lines, 421 Carrier, 94, 94 cash flows, 617, 645 cash management, 620, 645 Caterpillar, 106, 265, 418 CBS, 322, 478 Cellular manufacturing, 382 cellular manufacturing, 401 Centralization, 264 centralization, 277 certified management accountant (CMA), 546, 571 certified public accountant, 194 certified public accountant (CPA), 546, 571 chain of command, 262, 277 Chamber of Commerce, 488 Charles Schwab, 631 Cheney University, 463 Chevron, 48, 637 chief information officer (CIO), 505, 532 Chili’s, 153 Choice Homes, 306 Chrysler, 474 CHS, 146 circuit breakers, 642, 645 circular flow, 27, 50 Cisco Systems, 66, 91, 119, 273, 293 Citibank, 603 Citicorp, 450 Citigroup, 119, 631 Civil Rights Act, 320 Clairol, 221 Clinique, 422 cloud computing, 530, 532 CNN, 28 Coca-Cola, 105, 111, 114, 486, 637 code of ethics, 66, 80 Coercive power, 221 coercive power, 239 collective bargaining, 308, 325 Comcast, 628, 639 Comet Skateboards, 74 commercial bank, 594 commercial banks, 608 Commercial paper, 620 commercial paper, 645 Common law, 685 Common stock, 627 common stock, 645 communism, 25, 50 competitive advantage, 322, 325, 418, 451 computer network, 508, 532 computer virus, 523, 532 Computer-aided design (CAD), 395, 401 Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), 395 computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), 401 Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), 397 computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), 401 Conceptual skills, 233 conceptual skills, 239 conglomerate merger, 156, 161 Congressional Research Service Report, 160 Consensual leaders, 224 consensual leaders, 239 Consultative leaders, 224 consultative leaders, 239 consumer price index (CPI), 32, 50 722 Index This OpenStax book is available for free at http://cnx.org/content/col25734/1.7 Consumerism, 693 contingency plans, 217, 239 contingent worker, 291, 325 continuous improvement, 392, 401 continuous process, 377, 401 contract, 688 contract manufacturing, 107, 122 contractionary policy, 34, 50 controlling, 227, 239 Convenience products, 435 convenience products, 451 cooperative, 146, 161 copyright, 690 Corning, 618, 619, 619 corporate culture, 226, 239 Corporate philanthropy, 76 corporate philanthropy, 80 corporate social responsibility (CSR), 69, 80 corporation, 137, 161 cost competitive advantage, 418, 451 cost of goods sold, 571 cost per thousand (CPM), 479, 493 Cost-push inflation, 32 cost-push inflation, 50 Costco, 66, 75, 291, 448, 629, 639 Costs, 12 costs, 50 Coty, 422 countertrade, 110, 122 Cover Girl, 422 CPA, 194 credit union, 596 credit unions, 608 Crest, 431, 431 critical path, 390, 401 critical path method (CPM), 390, 401 cross-functional team, 260, 277 crowding out, 36, 50 CT Corporation, 159 Culture, 425 culture, 451 Currency, 586 currency, 608 Current assets, 555 current assets, 571 Current liabilities, 556 current liabilities, 571 current ratio, 563, 571 Customer departmentalization , 253 customer departmentalization, 277 Customer satisfaction, 414 customer satisfaction, 451 Customer value, 413 customer value, 451 Customization, 375 customization, 401 Cyclical unemployment, 30 cyclical unemployment, 50 Cypress, 322, 322 D DaimlerChrysler, 511 data mart, 532 data marts, 517 data mining, 526, 532 data warehouse, 517, 532 database, 507, 532 dealer markets, 638, 645 DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd., 44 debt, 190, 203 Debt ratios, 567 debt ratios, 571 debt-to-equity ratio, 567, 571 Decentralization, 264 decentralization, 277 decision support system (DSS), 517, 532 decisional role, 228 decisional roles, 239 Deepwater Horizon, 17 delegation of authority, 263, 277 Dell, 76, 94, 105, 399, 399, 399, 399, 473, 473, 473, 473, 530, 530 Deming, 392, 392 Delta, 212 Demand, 38 demand, 50 demand curve, 38, 50 Demand deposits, 586 demand deposits, 608 Demand-pull inflation, 32 demand-pull inflation, 50 Demographic segmentation, 429 demographic segmentation, 451 Demography, 19 demography, 50 Department of Commerce, 196 Department of Labor, 32, 33, 199, 320 departmentalization, 251, 277 Depreciation, 556 depreciation, 571 deregulation, 696 devaluation, 92, 122 differential competitive advantage, 418, 451 direct foreign investment, 108, 122 discount rate, 589, 608 Disney, 76, 253, 296, 413, 413, 490 Disneyland, 159 Distribution, 461 distribution (logistics), 493 distribution channel, 461, 493 distribution strategy, 451 Dividends, 628 dividends, 645 division of labor, 250, 277 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 591 Dollar Tree, 470 Domino's, 87, 87, 88, 88 Domino’s, 87, 87, 87, 88, 88, 89, 89, 475, 475 double-entry bookkeeping, 550, 571 Dow, 437 Dow Chemical, 116, 300, 300, 300, Dropbox, 486 Drucker, 70, 70, 293 Dumping, 97 dumping, 122 Dunkin’ Donuts, 153 DuPont, 319 E E*Trade, 631 E-commerce, 491 e-commerce, 493 E-procurement, 388 e-procurement, 401 Eagle Global Logistics, 180 Earnings per share (EPS), 566 earnings per share (EPS), 571 eBay, 222, 222, 449 Ecolab, 66 economic growth, 29, 50 economic system, 22, 50 Economics, 22 economics, 50 Edward Jones, 74 effectiveness, 212, 239 Efficiency, 212 efficiency, 239 electronic communications networks (ECNs), 640, 645 electronic data interchange (EDI), 388, 401 embargo, 96, 122 Empowerment, 225 empowerment, 239 Enron, 527, 541, 541, 541 enterprise portal, 511, 532 Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 413 enterprise resource planning (ERP), 384, 401 Entrepreneur, 152, 152, 155, 159 Entrepreneurs, 15 entrepreneurs, 50, 173, 203 Entrepreneur’s, 147 environmental scanning, 416, 451 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 320 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 325 Equal Pay Act, 318 ethical issue, 61, 80 Ethics, 61 ethics, 80 Ethics Resource Center, 65 Etsy, 74 European integration, 103, 122 European Union, 122, 604 European Union (EU), 102 exchange, 413, 451 Exchange controls, 97 exchange controls, 122 exchange traded fund (ETF), 645 exchange-traded fund (ETF), 635 Excise taxes, 697 executive information system (EIS), 518, 532 expansionary policy, 34, 50 expectancy theory, 347, 363 Expense items, 436 expense items, 451 expenses, 571 experiment, 432, 451 Expert power, 221 expert power, 239 expert system, 518, 532 Export Assistance Centers, 106 Export Working Capital Program, 106 exporting, 106, 122 Exports, 91 exports, 122 Exxon, 114 Exxon Mobil, 89 ExxonMobil, 48, 108, 265, 629 EY, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 47, 48, 546 financial accounting, 543 financial accounting, 571"