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Sales in business can refer to the passage of ownership from one owner to another, a reseller agreement in which one agrees to operate as the seller of another's goods or services, or other technical types of agreements in which ownership is being transferred. Sale is a widely used term in business. Sales figures and trends are used to assess risk, create internal controls, benchmark, and determine rewards. Accountants study taxable and nontaxable sales. Business leaders use sales figures to measure success.
Provision of services, legally speaking, is governed by common law. Common law is law made by courts. There exists a large body of cases, from precolonial English law to interpretation and rules set by modern courts that can guide in structuring sales for services ...
- Championing Corporate Ventures
- Accounting
- Business Failure
- Goal Setting
- Advertising
- Creativity and Opportunities
- Entrepreneurs in Consumer Products
- Bankruptcy
- Entrepreneurs in Franchising
- African Americans and Entrepreneurship
- Geography of Innovation
- Culture and Entrepreneurship
- Branding
- Adaptation
- Measures of Performance
- Incubators
- Agency Theory
- Change Management: Corporate
- Agility and Rapid Response
- Change
- Human Resource Strategy
- Business-to-Business Marketing
- Entrepreneurship Education: Graduate Programs
- Entrepreneurs in Energy
- Barriers to Entry
- Franchisee and Franchisor
- Gender and Acquiring Resources
- Innovation Advantage
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- Entrepreneurship Education: High School
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- Franchises: Legal Aspects
- Gender and Industry Preferences
- Innovation Diffusion
- Import/Export Businesses
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- Cognitive Schemas and Scripts
- Corporate Venturing
- Championing New Ventures
- Communication Styles
- Labor-Management Relations in Start-Ups
- Contextual Marketing
- Entrepreneurship Education: Undergraduate Programs
- Entrepreneurs in Finance and Banking
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- Gender and Performance
- Innovation in Low-Tech Industries
- International Enterprise Planning
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- Human Capital Theory
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- Cognition
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- Territorial Strategy and Regions
- Hispanics and Entrepreneurship
- Innovation Management
- International Markets
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- Family Business: Defining
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- Knowledge-Based View
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- Emotions
- Leadership: Training and Development
- E-Commerce
- Ethics
- Entrepreneurs in History
- Capitalism
- Minorities in New Business Ventures
- Innovation Management: Corporate
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- Family Business: Research
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- Learning Theory
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- Intentions
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- Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Master of Business Administration
- Entrepreneurs in Media
- Cash Flow
- Motivation and Gender
- Innovation Measurement
- Measures of Entrepreneurial Activity across Countries
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- Family Business: Stewardship
- Social Networks
- Performance and Legitimacy
- Creativity
- Locus of Control
- Managing Human and Social Capital
- Focus Groups
- Opportunity Development
- Entrepreneurs in Real Estate
- Community/Government Buy-Ins
- Women's Entrepreneurship: Best Practices
- Innovation Processes
- Political Economy and Entrepreneurship
- Family Business: Theory
- Sustainable Development
- Psychological Views
- Credentials
- Overconfidence
- Team Composition
- Licensing
- Opportunity Identification and Structural Alignment
- Entrepreneurs in Technology
- Credit
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- Home-Based Businesses
- Resource-Based View
- Entrepreneurial Orientation
- Planning Fallacy
- Women's Entrepreneurship
- Market Evaluation
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- Entrepreneurs in Transportation
- Debt
- Radical and Incremental Innovation
- Human Resources
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- Tolerance for Failure
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- Debt-Based Financing
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- Learning
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- Search-Based Discovery
- Entrepreneurial Support Systems
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- Retailing
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- Location Strategy
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- Target Markets
- Systematic Search
- Equity- and Debt-Based Financing
- Quality
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- Test Markets
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- Sales
- Passion
- Wholesale Markets
- Feasibility Studies
- Stakeholders
- Risk Management
- Geographic Location
- Succession Planning
- Selling Products and Services
- Growth
- Time Management
- Information
- Initial Public Offering
- Job Creation
- Public Policy: Government Stimulation of Start-Ups
- Research and Development
- Revenue: Current versus Deferred
- Selling Successful Businesses
- Strategy
- Venture Capital
- Venture Management Firms
- Venture Valuation
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