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SINE DIE

Latin- without day. A meeting that has been indefinitely adjourned where no date has been made for a resumption.

SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE

A point or part of a system where there is no backup in case of failure. The whole system will become disabled.

SITE ACCESS DENIAL

The m aking of a work site unavailable due to disturbances such as fire or flood in surrounding areas all though the site may be unaffected.

SKILL TEST

The evaluation of the competency of an employee to do the skills required for a particular job.

SLACK

1. The number of days or hours that a job is ahead of the schedule. 2. Used in CPM, critical path method, it is the difference in length of the path compared

SMALL BUSINESS

The designation for a certain sized business in terms of employee number, annual turnover, value of assets for example.

SMOOTHING

The technique used in statistics that evens out small and short term irregularites in data.

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEADER

A Leader who is concerned at morale boosting at a high level by allaying any fears, argument mediating, tension reduction an the settling of disagreements.

SOCIAL NORM

The pattern of a behaviour shown by a particular community, group or culture that is considered to be mormal.

SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS MUTUAL FUND

A mutual fund that has excluded investing in companies whose business practices are thought to be ethically or morally troubling.

SOFT SKILL

A skill that does notrequire a specific technique or learned trade such as human relations, team building, presenting ideas for example.

SOIL MECHANICS

A branch of Civil engineering studying the mechanicalm properties associtaed with soil.

SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR

An investor with experience to marketing knowledge able to evaluate investments and their potential.

SPECIAL AUDIT

An assessment that is based on an auditor’s report that asks for the further analysis of a business practice.

SALARY REDUCTION PLAN

Capital accumulation plan or pension plan where an employee makes a contribution to a pension plan from their salary that reduces the tax payable. Puts the employer into a lower tax bracket.

SALMONELLA

A bacteria found in sewage and human and animal intestines. These orgaisms are toxic and cause different diseases when injested. Different strains are found in different food.

SANS SERIF TYPE

A typeface that does not have extensions at each of the letters terminal points. It is sharp and clean and easy to read. When smaller than 10 points it becomes harder to

SCALPING

1. Making money through the scarcity of items.2. Trading stategy where small profits are accumulated to a larger profit. 3. The psoreading of good but wrong information to boost a demand for

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