| A | B |
| Employee assistance program | A project organized and sponsored by a company to help its employees |
| Entrepreneurs | People who assume the risks of starting and operating businesses |
| Entrepreneurship | Starting and building a business |
| Factors of production | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods; also known as economic resources |
| Financial capital | Money needed to operate a business |
| Flextime | A scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as they work the required number of hours |
| Fossil fuels | Nonrenewable, carbon-based energy sources formed underground from the fossilized remains of plants and animals |
| Generation X | A term used to refer to individuals who were born between the years 1965 and 1980; also known as Gen X |