| A | B |
|---|
| Self-aware | Conscious of one’s own strengths, weaknesses, and emotions |
| Financial skills | The ability to manage money |
| Decision-making skills | The ability to choose among alternatives |
| Entrepreneur | An individual who identifies an opportunity to create new value, develops and offers a unique product, assumes the risks of starting and building a business, focuses on the improvement and growth of that business, and receives personal and financial rewards for her/his efforts |
| Home-based business | A company that is operated in a residential dwelling |
| Skill | The ability to perform a task that is developed through knowledge, training, and practice |
| Flexibility | The ability to adapt to changes as they occur |
| Deduction | A tax write-off that reduces the gross amount of an individual’s income, which in turn reduces the taxes owed |
| Small business | A business that employs 500 or fewer people |
| Independence | The ability to think and act on your own and complete tasks without the direction of others |
| Innovation | The creation of new, unique products |
| Self-employed | An individual who is her/his own boss |
