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Category: Finance

ROAD SHOW

A major city tour by the team of management and the underwriters of an IPO prior to the offering date that is designed to garner interest for the investment.

RORSCHACH TEST

The technique based on a series of ink blot shapes used to assess personality.

ROUTINE MAINTENANCE

Usually a small scale activity to keep a piece of machinery or equipment in good working order.

RUN TIME

1. The time needed to finish one run. 2. The period time that an item is worked on.

SA8000

The international work place quality standard that is based on social accountability.

SALES APTITUDE

The ability a person has to close a sale. Often determined by appearance, intelligence, personality and motivation to sell. Involves a well thought out and flexible sales approach.

SCARCITY

A situation where demand for a product or resource is more than is available.

SCIENTIFIC LAW

An independent and verified description of a link between a cause and an effect. It wil be deduced from observations and experiments and is considered to be applicable universally.

SCREEN

A strategy used when selecting stock where a company is evaluated based on a set of criteria. It can be screened by hand or with an interset based tool or using software

SECOND SOURCE

A strategy used in acquisition where there are two suppliers or producers who qualify to supply the same item.

SECURE SERVER

A computer system that is designed for dedicated servers only to provide a secure online commerce transaction over a network such as the internet.

SEGMENTATION STRATEGIES

The approaches used in order to subdivide a market or population into segments with similar characteristics. Five major strategies, behaviour, benefit, demographic, geographic and psychgraphic segmentation.

SELF EXECUTING

A legal instrument enforced by a judicial process that is effective immediately without the need for any other requirements.

SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY

An expectation about a circumstance that can be negative or positive that can affect how a person acts that causes the expectations to be fulfilled.

SEMANTICS

The study in scientific terms of words and also how meanings are applied to words.

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