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  • 81activity trap — noun The risk of becoming so busy with activity so as to forget and miss the aim of that activity. <! Verification: Google hits: 9000. The term is used by Peter Drucker and Stepher R. Covey …

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  • 82activity — noun a) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of …

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  • 83Activity-Based Budgeting - ABB — A method of budgeting in which the activities that incur costs in every functional area of an organization are recorded and their relationships are defined and analyzed. Activities are then tied to strategic goals, after which the costs of the… …

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  • 84activity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of being active Nouns 1. (state of being active) activity, activeness, business, energy, liveliness, animation; briskness, quickness, alertness; wakefulness, vigil; alacrity, zeal, dash, fervor,… …

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  • 85activity — noun 1 (U) a situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are doing things, moving around etc: I missed the noise and activity of the city. | a huge amount of media activity during the elections opposite inactivity 2 (C) something… …

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  • 86activity analysis — In activity based costing, the identification and description of activities in an organization. Each department will determine the key activities, how many people work on the activities, and what resources are required to perform the activities.… …

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  • 87activity-based management — The use made by the management of an organization of activity based costing. The identification of activities and cost drivers encourages the management to review how projected cost levels compare with the activity levels achieved …

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  • 88activity analysis — In activity based costing, the identification and description of activity in an organization. Each department will determine the key activities, how many people work on the activities, and what resources are required to perform the activities.… …

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  • 89activity sampling — work sampling A technique in which a large number of observations are made over a period of a group of machines, processes, or workers. Each observation records what is happening at that instant; the percentage of observations recorded for a… …

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  • 90activity-based management — The use made by the management of an organization of activity based costing The identification of activities and cost drivers encourages the management to review how projected cost levels compare with the activity levels achieved …

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