1. A corporation , business, firm, company, or registered group with a designated purpose. 2. More typically, a group, driven by initiative and resourcefulness, incorporated or not, organized to conduct […]

Process of linking various enterprise system together in support of the corporate world-wide business. Also involves maintenance and time upgrade or replacement of legacy (in-place) systems and hardware with new […]

Those computerized systems that integrate and support the world-wide, corporate business structure . Functionally includes all aspects of a firm’s operations and processes. These include accounting, finance, human resources, inventory […]

Strategic design or ‘blueprint’ of corporate business, not the computerization. This blueprint is a business flow diagram of the business components employed in specific functional operations, the interrelationships of those […]

The situation defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) where two or more interrelated businesses are treated as one enterprise. Usually involves and requires certain activities: sharing personnel, skills, […]

An 1990 international program intended to accomplish three goals: 1) engage North, Central and South America to increase inter-regional trade, 2) engage the InterAmerican Development Bank to set up, manage, […]

Java-platform server-side component. Improves rapid development of mission-critical business applications. Makes applications generically cross-platform portable.

Liability for crime(s) committed by a constituent business, department, or unit that is applied and accountable corporate-wide.

Legal principle that Liability for crime(s) committed by a constituent business, department, or unit can be applied and made accountable corporate-wide.

An organization ‘s mission, functions, processes and information flows depicted at the strategic level. Used as the reference for constructing all other models, decomposing the strategy into ever-increasing levels of […]

A multiple (factor applied to value) that depicts a company as a potential acquired would. This multiple is applied to calculate the value of the involved company. It factors in […]

Corporate-wide, world-wide, all-encompassing communications backbone. Links every computer and associated devices at every company location to every other computer at every other company location.

Organized, computerized, periodic analysis of customers, sales, and market data. Computerized analysis trends detect patterns of demand, usage, and service requirements . Patterns are feedback to devise new or improved […]

Known also as enterprise resource planning.

Computerized management of all enterprise resource planning. Integrated, multi-module software system expedites identifying and planning the resource needs of an enterprise. ERP is accounting oriented. Provides a single user-interface for […]

A holistic RISK MANAGEMENT process that combines a company

A firm’s total capitalization defined as market value . Calculated as: Equity, added to debt, minus the non-critical asset value. To the firm’s core business, these assets must be casual, […]

Land offering tax incentives, freedom from some regulatory control, and other advantageous terms. Usually set aside as sites for factories, transportation companies, and other types of business. Typically situated in […]

This word is synonymous with “board,” and includes the ordinarynecessaries of life. See Scatter- good v. Waterman, 2 Miles (Pa.) 323; Lasar v. Johnson,125 Cal. 549, 58 Pac. 161; In […]

Business costs for informal engagements with direct business intent. A specific agenda and purpose, such as confirming an order or advantageous trade terms , are evidence of this business intent. […]

To solicit, persuade, or procure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N.Y.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich. 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State. 71 Neb. […]

This the name given to an act where a child is taken forcibly from a custodial parent.

Whole; without division, separation. or diminution.

An entire contract is one the consideration of which is entire on both sides. The entire fulfillment of the promise by either is a condition precedent to the fulfillment of […]

See CONTRACT