Business Terms Glossary

Small Business Glossary

This Small Business Entreprenerial Glossary provides definitions of commonly used small business terms. All definitions are listed below, arranged in alphabetical order.

401(K) Plan

504 Loan

Accounting

Accounting Cost

Accounting Period

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Accredited Investor

Accrued Interest

Accrued Liabilities and Expenses

Accumulated Depreciation

Acid-Test Ratio

Acquisition

ACRS

Advisory Board

Angel Groups

Angel Investors

Bad Debt

Capital Call

Capitalization Table

Captive Funds

Cash Flow

Chapter 11

Chapter 7

Clawback

Cloud Computing

Common Stock

Corporate Venturing

Deal Flow

Debt Financing

Dilution

Elevator Pitch

Employment Agreement

Exit Strategy

Exports

Factoring

Golden Handcuffs

Golden Parachute

Goodwill

Gross Domestic Product

Incubator

Independent Contractor

Joint Venture

Lead Investor

Loan Guarantee

Lock-up Period

Meta Search

Mission Statement

Non-Disclosure Agreement

Option Pool

Patent

Petty Cash

Piggyback Registration Rights

Prospectus

Return On Investment

Safety Stock

SBA 7(a) Loan Guaranty

SBA 7(j) Program

SBA 8(a) Program

Seed Money

Series A Round

Series B Round

State Withholding Tax

Sweat Equity

Tag-Along Rights

Trademark

Tranche

Value-Added Tax

Vesting Schedule

Warrant

Wash-Out Round

Workers' Compensation

Working Capital

Workout

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