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SEQUENTIAL SAMPLING

A list of transactions in an order alphabetically are measured in order to see if the income minus the expenses is equal to total profit.

SELF-SERVE ADVERTISING

A way to reduce cost by placing ads without using an advertising sales rep. Allows the advertiser greater convenience in placing ads.

SENTIMENT

A “mood” that is bullish or boorish by investors and traders that may be indicative of a market trend.

SERIF TYPE

A classic type face that has extensions at each termination in the letter.

SEQUENTIAL TRAINING

A manner of training where new skills and knowledge are built upon the skills and knowledge that has already been learnt.

SERVELET

A small program written for a computer in Java language that runs on a server and not on the browser like an applet.

SERVICE BENEFITS

The benefits that are provided by the service association issued according to the days of coverage and not a dollar amount.

SERIAL CORRELATION

A correlation that is undesirable but remains undetected by statistical techniques. A non-random pattern.

SERVICE BUREAU

A company that provides a service that can be specialised like copying, payroll processing and accounting.

SENSOR

A device that can detect changes in environmental conditions or the state of another device and sends the information to another place.

SERVICE AREA

The geographical area that a healthe care plan can service that is set by a state agency.

SCALE ORDER

A buyers order for his broker that allows for a client to move with the market trends.

ROUND TRIPPING

The strategy where a business will sell an asset and then want it back at a time in the future.

SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR

An entrepreneur who is always coming up with a new idea to start a new business and does not stay with that business very long before he is on to the next

SELF-MANAGED TEAM

A group that is able to organise itself and whose members are able to manage and plan their day-to-day activity. There is little or no supervision on the group.

SECONDARY STRIKE

A strike that has occured where labour is withheld due to teh company buys or sells from a firm where the workers are striking.

SCARCE GOOD

A resource in limited supply but has a large demand. See factors of production and economic goods.

ROUTINE

1. Any activity performed at regular intervals.2. The repitition of a procedure that does not vary.

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