Stockpoint Stock Quote Contact Us Send us your comments, requests and feedback. This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.5. An innovator of business enterprise who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new product, a new process or an improved organization, and who raises the necessary money, assembles the factors for production and organizes an operation to exploit the opportunity. Physical property of a more or less permanent nature ordi narily useful in carrying on operations, other than land, buildings or improvements to either of them.
Examples are machinery, tools, tracks, cars, ships, furniture and furnishings.
A financial investment in a business. An equity investment car ries with it a share of ownership of the business, a stake in the profits and a say in how it is managed. Equity is calculated by subtracting the lia bilities of the business from the assets of the business. The process by which two or more parties give something of value to one another to satisfy needs and wants. Those costs which don't vary from one period to the next.