Charge for a flight involving more than a single airline and changing air craft.

Using mass advertising to form a customer data base that can be used for direct marketing activities.

1. General. Productivity of a process, machine, procedure or system over a period of time and is expressed as a figure of merit such as output per hour, cash turnover or shipped

Take or pay contract in gas and oil industry often used as an indirect guarantee for financing.

Costing method for products using unit level costs.

Time needed for material, subassembly or part to move through a manufacturing process. Full name is manufacturing throughput time.

Handbill or flier handed out to people on the street, placed in magazines and papers as a way of promotion.

1. Commercial printing. A small rough sketch representing a proposed layout. Also called squish, French for sketch. 2. Desktop printing. A smaller image of a page or graphic making it easier to

Abbreviation standing for Teacher’s Insurance Annuity Association-College Requirement Equities Fund.

A notation made on an accounting sheet showing it has been reviewed by an auditor.

Term referring to a narrow strip of paper or display electronically where quotes are streamed along.

Stock symbols on a moving strip with volumes and prices shown at the bottom of a TV screen.

Arrangement of marketing where the supplier of a goods or service in demand sells it on a basis that the buyer will also buy another goods or service.

Plot of land that measures 6 miles wide, extends east-west and numbered in north-south according to the distance from base line in a rectangular survey system.

Savings account where the interest can change depending of amount in the account.

Supply of Monet restriction by the central bank by tightening credit qualifications, selling government bonds and or raising bank’s reserve needs.

Money that is borrowed at high rates of interest due to a tight monetary policy. Also known as dear money and is the opposite of easy money.

Method used to track and gather information on the time an employee spends on the job.

Arrangement where a contractor is paid based on cost of direct labour and cost of materials, using equipment and an agreed upon additional payment covering contractor’s profits and overheads.

Method used to establish productivity standards for employees.