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180 Degree Performance Appraisal
| Preferred Label | 180 Degree Performance Appraisal |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | 180 Degree - a method of measuring performance appraisal of an employee. |
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Account Management
| Preferred Label | Account Management |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of selling and delivering products and services to the company's customers on a business to business basis. Includes the management of the company's major accounts which may involve the nurturing of relationships with buyers, and individually negotiated contracts with special terms and conditions. |
| Alternative Labels | Customer Management Prospect Management |
Accounting
| Preferred Label | Accounting |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The activities involved in systematically recording, reporting, and analysing the financial transactions of a business. |
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Accounts payable
| Preferred Label | Accounts payable |
| Concept Type | Process |
| Scope Notes | The process of managing debts owed to creditors for products or services. |
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Accounts receivable
| Preferred Label | Accounts receivable |
| Concept Type | Process |
| Scope Notes | The process of managing debts due from customers from the sales of products or services. |
| Alternative Labels |
Agreements
| Preferred Label | Agreements |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of making and maintaining contracts and agreements. |
| Alternative Labels |
Annual Taxation Return
| Preferred Label | Annual Taxation Return |
| Concept Type | Document Type |
| Scope Notes | |
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Audit plan
| Preferred Label | Audit plan |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | A description of the expected scope and conduct of the audit. |
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Audit report
| Preferred Label | Audit report |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Report issued by auditor following each official audit. |
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Auditing
| Preferred Label | Auditing |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of examining and verifying accounts and records against regulatory or agreed standards. //nIncludes compliance, financial, operational, skills, systems and quality assurance audits. |
| Alternative Labels |
Benefits
| Preferred Label | Benefits |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The activity of managing non-wage compensation for employees, including retirement plans, and group schemes for life, health, accident and disability insurance. |
| Alternative Labels |
Budgeting
| Preferred Label | Budgeting |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of planning and controlling the spending of money within the organization. Includes monitoring and reviewing budgets. |
| Alternative Labels |
Building and contents insurance
| Preferred Label | Building and contents insurance |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Property insurance providing coverage for buildings and personal property at locations described within the policy. |
| Alternative Labels |
Depreciation
| Preferred Label | Depreciation |
| Concept Type | Process |
| Scope Notes | The process of decreasing in the value of assets and equipment over time for the purposes of tax-deductibility. |
| Alternative Labels |
Draft contract
| Preferred Label | Draft contract |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | A preliminary version of the contract |
| Alternative Labels |
Environmental Management
| Preferred Label | Environmental Management |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of protecting the environment and ensuring the sustainability of natural resources associated with business activities. Includes rehabilitation programs to restore natural resources and the environment where they have been impacted or impaired by business activities, products or services. Includes investigating and responding to environmental incidents. |
| Alternative Labels |
facilities and Property
| Preferred Label | facilities and Property |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of managing facilities and premises occupied by the business. Includes acquiring, leasing, constructing, fitting out, managing, maintaining, protecting and disposing of premises. Includes any building or land that is owned, rented or leased by the organization. |
| Alternative Labels |
Final contract
| Preferred Label | Final contract |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Singed contract between the organization and the successful bidder. May include a range of schedules such as payment plans, covenants etc. |
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Financial Management
| Preferred Label | Financial Management |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of managing the organization's financial resources. Includes accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting. |
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Human Resource Management
| Preferred Label | Human Resource Management |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of developing and managing prospective, current and past employees and subcontractors of the company. Includes the management of personnel employment records, employment conditions, staff and team development. Includes the management of industrial relations issues and negotiating enterprise agreements. |
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Incidents
| Preferred Label | Incidents |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of managing a single distinct event or occurrence which may have severe consequences such as injury or damage to property or natural resources, and which may require emergency service action. |
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Insurance
| Preferred Label | Insurance |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of arranging insurance coverage for damage to company property, and coverage for employees and customers against injury or death where the accident occurred on company property. //nFor group insurance relating to employees, use Benefits. |
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Invoice
| Preferred Label | Invoice |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Accounts to customers or from suppliers for goods and/or services supplied. |
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Leasing
| Preferred Label | Leasing |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of entering into a contract granting use of real estate, equipment, or other assets for a specified time in exchange for payment. |
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Leave
| Preferred Label | Leave |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The activities involved in managing leave of absence by employees from the workplace. //nIncludes long service leave, extended leave, recreation leave, annual leave, sick leave or any other form of leave of absence from employment. |
| Alternative Labels |
Licensing
| Preferred Label | Licensing |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | The process of providing software licenses to enable access to use software applications. |
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Maintenance
| Preferred Label | Maintenance |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | All routine and extraordinary activities necessary to keep equipment and assets in good repair and reliable working order. Includes preventative maintenance, normal repairs, replacement of parts and structural components, and other activities needed to preserve the asset so that it continues to provide acceptable services and achieves its expected life. |
| Alternative Labels |
Minutes of contract negotiation meeting
| Preferred Label | Minutes of contract negotiation meeting |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Minutes of meetings held with bidders for goods and services. |
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Monitoring
| Preferred Label | Monitoring |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The activities involved in undertaking periodic or continuous observation or testing of an object or system over a period of time. |
| Alternative Labels |
Office Security Procedures
| Preferred Label | Office Security Procedures |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | |
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Payment advice (debtors)
| Preferred Label | Payment advice (debtors) |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Printouts of the electronic payment advice created as part of a payment transaction. |
| Alternative Labels |
Performance management
| Preferred Label | Performance management |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of managing organizational and individual performance through observation and feedback, appraising performance, and rewarding performance. |
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Policies and procedures
| Preferred Label | Policies and procedures |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of developing and establishing the company's business principles, and the operating procedures that ensure compliance with those principles. |
| Alternative Labels |
Procurement
| Preferred Label | Procurement |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of buying goods and services required in the conduct of business. //nWhere the procurement is over a certain amount, use the Subactivity Bidding.//nWhere the procurement is under a certain amount use the Subactivity Purchasing.//nWhere a formal lease arrangement is entered into, use Leasing under the appropriate function. |
| Alternative Labels |
Purchase order
| Preferred Label | Purchase order |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | A written authorization prepared by a buyer for the purchase of goods or services at a specified price. Once accepted by the seller, the purchase order becomes a legally binding purchase contract. |
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Quotation
| Preferred Label | Quotation |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | A statement of the current market price for goods and services. |
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Recruiting
| Preferred Label | Recruiting |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of recruiting paid employees and volunteers to fill vacancies within the company. |
| Alternative Labels |
Remittance
| Preferred Label | Remittance |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Records of funds sent from one to another usually in payment for items purchased, services rendered, or value received. |
| Alternative Labels |
Remuneration
| Preferred Label | Remuneration |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of making payments to staff for services to the company. |
| Alternative Labels |
Request for proposal
| Preferred Label | Request for proposal |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | A structured invitation to suppliers to submit a proposal for the supply of products and/or services. |
| Alternative Labels |
Safe Working
| Preferred Label | Safe Working |
| Concept Type | Function |
| Scope Notes | The function of protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. |
| Alternative Labels |
Sales
| Preferred Label | Sales |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The process of selling goods and services to propects and existing customers. Includes the creation of proposal, negotiating terms and conditions, and preparing the contract of sale. |
| Alternative Labels |
Software License Key
| Preferred Label | Software License Key |
| Concept Type | Document Type |
| Scope Notes | |
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Soil pollution
| Preferred Label | Soil pollution |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Causes: chemical, paint, oil or fuel spills |
| Alternative Labels |
Taxation
| Preferred Label | Taxation |
| Concept Type | Activity |
| Scope Notes | The activities involved in assessing and paying taxes to government. |
| Alternative Labels |
Water management procedures
| Preferred Label | Water management procedures |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | |
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Water pollution
| Preferred Label | Water pollution |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Causes: chemical, paint, oil, fuel spills, aircraft fuel release, vehicle wash, stormwater drains. |
| Alternative Labels |
Workers compensation insurance
| Preferred Label | Workers compensation insurance |
| Concept Type | |
| Scope Notes | Insurance that protects employees from work-related illness and injury. |
| Alternative Labels |
Workplace Safety Audit
| Preferred Label | Workplace Safety Audit |
| Concept Type | Process |
| Scope Notes | |
| Alternative Labels |
Client Management
| Preferred Label | Client Management |
| Concept Type | Non preferred term |
| Scope Notes | |
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Estimating
| Preferred Label | Estimating |
| Concept Type | Non preferred term |
| Scope Notes | |
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Inspecting
| Preferred Label | Inspecting |
| Concept Type | Non preferred term |
| Scope Notes | |
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Occupational Health and Safety
| Preferred Label | Occupational Health and Safety |
| Concept Type | Non preferred term |
| Scope Notes | |
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Superannuation
| Preferred Label | Superannuation |
| Concept Type | Non preferred term |
| Scope Notes | |
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