Business Finance Regulations

Business Terminology

• Statutory regulations: Regulations covering financial dealings based on Acts of Parliament, as opposed to non-statutory rules of self-regulatory organisations.
• Statutory sick pay: Payment made by an employer to an employee who is away from work due to sickness.
• Stay: A length of time spent in one place; a temporary stop or delay.

Financial Terms

• Steep: Referring to a sudden and significant increase or decrease in price or value.
• Sterling: A standard currency used in the United Kingdom; to quote prices in sterling or to quote sterling prices.
• Sterling area: Formerly, an area of the world where the pound sterling was the main trading currency.
• Sterling crisis: A fall in the exchange rate of the pound sterling.
• Sterling millionaire: A person who has more than one million pounds sterling.

Stock and Shares

• Stock: The available supply of raw materials; the quantity of goods for sale in a warehouse or retail outlet.
• Stockbroker: A person who buys or sells shares for clients.
• Stockbroker's commission: The payment to a broker for a deal carried out on behalf of a client.
• Stock certificate: A document proving that someone owns stock in a company.
• Stock code: A set of numbers and letters referring to an item of stock.
• Stock control: The process of making sure that the correct level of stock is maintained.
• Stock controller: A person who notes movements of stock.
• Stock depreciation: A reduction in value of stock which is held in a warehouse for some time.

Stock Exchange

• Stock Exchange: A place where stocks and shares are bought and sold.
• Stock Exchange listing: The fact of being on the official list of shares which can be bought or sold on the Stock Exchange.
• Stock Exchange operation: The activity of buying or selling of shares on the Stock Exchange.
• Stock market: A place where shares are bought and sold, i.e. a stock exchange.
• Stock market manipulation: The practice of trying to influence the price of shares by buying or selling in order to give the impression that the shares are widely traded.
• Stock market manipulator: A person who tries to influence the price of shares in their own favour.
• Stock market valuation: A value of a company based on the current market price of its shares.### Stockkeeping Unit
• Stockkeeping Unit (SKU) is a full form of a noun referring to a sale of goods cheaply to clear a warehouse before stocktaking.
• Stock ledger is a book that records quantities and values of stock.

Stock

• Stock level refers to the quantity of goods kept in stock.
• Stock valuation is an estimation of the value of stock at the end of an accounting period.
• Stock transfer form is a form to be signed by the person transferring shares.

Storage

• Storage refers to the act of keeping something in store or in a warehouse.
• Storage capacity is the space available for storage.
• Storage company is a company that keeps items for customers.
• Storage facilities are equipment and buildings suitable for storage.
• Storage unit is a device attached to a computer for storing information on disk or tape.

Stop

• Stop can mean the end of an action or a situation where someone is not supplying or paying something.
• Stop can also mean to make something not move or happen anymore.
• Stop-loss order is an instruction to a stockbroker to sell a share if the price falls to an agreed level.

Strategic

• Strategic management is management that focuses on developing corporate strategy, ensuring the organization operates and makes decisions in accordance with that strategy.
• Strategic partnering is collaboration between organizations to take advantage of market opportunities together.
• Strategic planning is the process of planning the future work of a company.

Stress

• Stress is nervous tension or worry caused by overwork, difficulty with managers, etc.
• Stress management is a way of coping with stress-related problems at work.

Strike

• Strike is the stopping of work by the workers due to a lack of agreement with management or because of orders from a union.
• Strike can also mean to call the workforce out on strike or to go on strike to stop work.

Strong Currency

• Strong currency is a currency that has a high value against other currencies.
• Strong pound is a pound that is high against other currencies.

Structural

• Structural refers to the structure of something.
• Structural unemployment is unemployment caused by the changing structure of an industry or the economy.
• Structure is the way in which something is organized.

Systems Analysis

• Structured systems analysis and design method is a method of analyzing and designing computer systems that proceeds in a series of logical steps.### Business Vocabulary
• Striker: an employee who is on strike.
• Strong: with a lot of force or strength; a strong demand for a product means there is a high demand for it.

Financial Terms

• Stub: a slip of paper left after writing a cheque, an invoice, or a receipt, as a record of the deal.
• Study: an act of examining something carefully; a study on a project is to examine its costs and possible profits.

Business Concepts

• Subcontract: a contract between a main contractor and another firm that will do part of the work.
• Subcontractor: a company that has a contract to do work for a main contractor.
• Sublease: a lease from a tenant to another tenant.
• Sublessee: a person or company that takes a property on a sublease.
• Sublessor: a tenant who leases a property to another tenant.
• Sublet: to let a leased property to another tenant.

Business Operations

• Sub-agency: a small agency that is part of a larger agency.
• Sub-agent: a person in charge of a sub-agency.
• Subcommittee: a small committee that is part of a larger committee.
• Subcontract: to agree with a company that they will do part of the work for a project.

Marketing and Advertising

• Subliminal advertising: advertising that tries to leave impressions on the subconscious mind of the person who sees it or hears it.
• Subscription: to pay for a series of issues of a magazine or for access to information on a website.

Management and Leadership

• Subordinate: a person in a lower position in an organization, who is governed by or depends on someone else.
• Subsidise: to help by giving money, to make something cheaper.

Law and Finance

• Subpoena: a court order telling someone to appear as a witness; to order someone to appear in court.
• Subsidiary: a company that is more than 50% owned by a holding company, and where the holding company controls the board of directors.
• Subsidiary company: a company that is controlled by another company.
• Subsidy: money given to help something that is not profitable, or money given to make something cheaper.

Other Business Terms

• Sub-post office: a small post office, usually part of a general store.
• Sub-post office: a small post office that is part of a larger post office.
• Subtenancy: an agreement to sublet a property.
• Subtenant: a person or company to which a property has been sublet.
• Suffer: to be in a bad situation, to do badly.
• Subtotal: the total of one section of a complete set of figures.
• Subtract: to take away something from a total.
• Subvention: same as subsidy.

This quiz covers statutory regulations and financial dealings, including interest charges and overseas sales. Test your understanding of business finance concepts.