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UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN BUSINESS CHAPTER # 1 notes chater1 MANAGING WITHIN THE DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 动态商业环境下的管理 Business and Entrepreneurship: Revenues, Profits, and Losses 事业和企业家能力:收益，利益和损失 Business: Any activity that seeks to provide goods and services to others while operating at a profit. 事业：寻求当在一笔利润操作时向其他人提供货物和服务的任何活动。 Profit: The amount a business earns beyond what it spends for salaries and other expenses. 利益:一种商业在它为了薪金和其他话费所话费的以外赚的量 Entrepreneur: A person who risks time and money to start and manage a business. 企业家能力:冒险用时间和金钱开始和管理一种商业的一个人 Revenue: The total amount of money a business takes in during a given period by selling goods and services. 收益:一种商业在一段特定的时间期间通过出售商品和服务获得的金钱 Loss: When a business’s expenses are more then its revenue. 失去：当一种商业的花费超过其收益时 Risk: The chance an entrepreneur takes of losing time and money on a business that may not prove profitable.风险：一个企业家浪费了时间和金钱在事业上,却无利可图的机会 Responding to the Various Business Stakeholders 对各种各样的傻瓜也既得利益者作出反应 Stakeholder: All the people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business.财产保管人：他通过政策和一种商业活动赢得或者失去的所有人 - Investors; invest in the business 投资者：在商业中的投资 - Financial Institutions; lend money to the business 金融的社会公共机构:借钱给企业 - Supplier; sell to the business 供应商：向企业卖物品 - Customers; buy goods and services from the business 消费者：从企业中购买商品和服务 - Government; gets taxes from the business 政府：从企业中收税 - Employees; get jobs from the business 受雇者：从企业中得到工作 - Dealers; buy and sell for the business 经销商：为企业进行交易买卖 - Environmentalists; protest the businesses pollution habits 环境保护主义者：抗议商业污染习惯 - Surrounding Community; get many positives and negatives from the business 周围的社区：从商业之中得到很多积极的和消极的影响 Outsourcing: Assigning various functions, such as accounting, production, security, maintenance, and legal work, to outside organizations. 外包:委托给外部单位的业务有很多,像审计,产品,安全,维护保养和政法工作. There is a major trend towa