The role of operations management impacts on all functional areas of a business organization including marketing, Human Resources (HR) and finance.
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Subsidies are sums of money given by the government to producers of commodities which are widely used by the majority of the society.
Government grants are non-repayable funds, ‘financial gifts’, a complimentary finance that does not need to be repaid in the future.
Business Angels are informal wealthy investors who invest in high-risk and high-return entrepreneurial businesses at a very early stage.
Crowdfunding is the use of small sums of money from a large number of private individual people to finance a new business venture.
Convertible bonds, or convertible debentures, are types of bond that the holder can convert into shares in the issuing company.
Bonds, or debentures, are fixed-income financial instruments, essentially long-term loans issued by a business to investors.
A mortgage is a long-term bank loan used by the business for the purchase of land or buildings. Mortgages are secured bank loans.
A long-term bank loan is provision of finance by the lender to the business for a long period of time. The lender is a commercial bank.
Sale-and-leaseback is a transaction when the business sells a particular Fixed Asset and immediately lease that asset back.
Microfinance is providing financial services such as bank loans and overdrafts to low-income customers where business finance is difficult to obtain.