| A | B | 
| Profit-making Business | Businesses whose motive is to make a profit. | 
| Service Business | Provides services rather than goods | 
| Non-Profit Business | Focus on porviding a service instead of making a profit. | 
| Product Business | Sell goods to consumers. | 
| Combination Business | Businesses that sell a product and provide a service. | 
| Profit Motive | The desire to make money. | 
| Services | Task that businesses perform or provide for customers. | 
| Profit | Money left after a business has paid expenses. | 
| Goods | Items businesses sell that can be physically weighed or measured. | 
| Sole proprietorship | A business owned by only one person | 
| Partnership | A business owned by two or more people | 
| Franchise | A contract between a parent company and a franchises to use the name and sell the goods or services of the parent company | 
| Non-profit organization | A business whose goal is to provide a service rather than to make a profit, such as the Red Cross | 
| Corporation | A business considered separate from the owners of the business by law and the owners are stockholders. | 
| Multinational corporation | A company that does business and has business facilities in many countries. | 
| Accounting | The process of recording and reporting the financial data for a business | 
| Management | The process of leading and directing all or part of an organization | 
| Marketing | the process of creating, promoting and presenting a product to the consumers | 
| Information Technology | The process of creating, promoting and presenting a product to the consumers | 
| Operations | The activities that deal with the hiring, firing, training and other persionnel (employee) issues |