Business Essentials, 12/e

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• B2B. See Business-to-business buyers and sellers

• BAE Systems, 449

• Bailouts, 27

• Balance of payments, 118

• Balance of trade, 24, 116–118

  • exchange rates, 119

• Balance sheet, 84, 489–490

• Banana Republic, 20

• Banker’s acceptance, 521

• Bank of America, 47, 58, 364

• Bank of Japan, 541

• Bankruptcy, 566, 593–594

• Banks

  • commercial, 519

  • community banking, 525

  • Federal Reserve System, U.S., 27

  • influence currency values, 533–534

  • mutual savings, 519–520

  • regulation of, 523–524

  • small businesses in, 79

• Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), 529

• Bargaining unit, 616

• Bargaining zone, 330

• Bargain retailer, 419–420

• Barriers, to international trade, 129–131

• Bashir, Ruzwana, 290

• Bath & Body Works, 421

• Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), 212

• Bayer, 58

• BCG. See Boston Consulting Group

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