UNDERSTANDING CANADIAN BUSINESS
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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:include中文 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 toward outsourcing in North American business in an effort to cut costs and become more competitive. Much production has moved off shore, and many management functions are now sub contracted to external sources such as consulting firms.
在北美的外包业务有一个大致的发展趋势:就是努力缩减成本提高竞争力.很多的产品现在已经转移到了沿海地区,许多管理职能现在订约与外部资源像咨询公司.
Using Business Principles in Non-profit Organization非营利组织的商业原则的应用
Non- profit Organization: An organization whose goals do not include making a personal profit for its owners or organization. 无利益组织：其目标不包括为其所有者或者组织赚取一笔个人的利润的一个组织。
Social Entrepreneurs: are people who use business principles to start and manage non-profit organizations and help countries with their social issues. 社会企业家：是那些使用商业原则开始和管理非盈利的组织并且在他们的社会的问题方面帮助国家的人。
      Non-profit organizations use management principles and function in the same way as a business. Their primary reason for being is different however. A non-profit organization operates for a social objective where as a business operates for a profit. 非盈利组织用一种与商业一样的办法使用管理原则和功能，然而，他们的主要原因不同，一个非盈利组织，用于社会目的，作为企业的经营利润
Quality of Life: The general well-being of society in terms of political freedom, a clean natural environment, education, health care, safety, free time, and everything else that leads to satisfaction and joy. 生活质量：一般福利方面 的社会政治自由，一个干净的自然环境，教育，卫生保健，安全，自由，以及其他一切导致满意与快乐
Entrepreneurship Versus Working For Other企业家创新精神与工作
The Importance of Factors of Production to the Creation of Wealth
重要的生产要素创造财富
Factors of Production: The resources used to create wealth生产要素：使用的资源创造财富
1.      Land: natural resources地产，自然资源
2.      Labour: workers劳工，工人
3.      Capital: This includes machines, tools, buildings, or whatever else is used in the product of goods. It does not include money; is used to buy factors of production. 资本 ，这包括机器，工具，建筑，或其他任何产品中那个使用的物品，它不包括钱，用于购买生产要素
4.      Entrepreneurship: people and policies which promote new ventures企业家能力：人和政策促进新企业
5.      Knowledge: a skilled and educated work force  知识：一个熟练和受过教育的劳动力
The Business Environment  经营环境
Business Environment: The surrounding factors that either help or hinder the development of businesses. 环境因素，可以帮助或阻碍企业的发展
1.      The legal and the regulatory environment: 法律和监管环境
1.      freedom of business and real estate ownership自由企业和房地产的所有权
2.      contract laws合同法
3.      elimination of corruption消除腐败
Businesses need to be aware of all the laws and regulations which effect their industry and business operations. 企业需要了解的所有法律和条例，影响他们的产业和商业运作