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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2014-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Prices
  • Economic Planning
DEF

A cost control technique that lays down the maximum amount that a particular product should cost.

OBS

The cost is determined by deducting a required profit margin from the price that the product is expected to sell at in a competitive market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prix (Commercialisation)
  • Planification économique
DEF

Méthode de gestion et de contrôle des coûts appliquée avant même la conception du produit ou du service, par laquelle on détermine le niveau de coût de revient à viser pour le produit ou le service à développer, en partant d’un prix cible et d’une marge de profit acceptables.

OBS

Une fois le coût cible établi, on conçoit le produit ou le service de manière à ce que son coût de revient corresponde au coût cible. Par la suite, on instaure un processus d’amélioration continue pour assurer le contrôle des coûts.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

An e-mail-based communication and collaboration application, it combines the best of e-mail, instant messaging, and the Web.

CONT

Zaplets are easy to create(using a point-and-click template with built in features you can add) and easy to send(you fire it off as an e-mail to your target group). The Zaplet arrives in everyone's in-box just like e-mail, but when a recipient replies to or updates his or her copy of it, every member of the group has instant access to the new data as soon as they reopen their Zaplet. Zaplets work with popular e-mail clients and Web browsers and are used to poll coworkers, streamline hiring and budgeting processes, schedule meetings or parties, or tackle most any business task that requires teamwork.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Les Zaplets vous permettent de collaborer en temps réel sur n'importe quel document à partir de votre courrier électronique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

An e-mail-based communication and collaboration application [that] combines the best of e-mail, instant messaging, and the Web.

OBS

Zaplets are easy to create(using a point-and-click template with built in features you can add) and easy to send(you fire it off as an e-mail to your target group). The Zaplet arrives in everyone's in-box just like e-mail, but when a recipient replies to or updates his or her copy of it, every member of the group has instant access to the new data as soon as they reopen their Zaplet. Zaplets work with popular e-mail clients and Web browsers and are used to poll coworkers, streamline hiring and budgeting processes, schedule meetings or parties, or tackle most any business task that requires teamwork.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Les Zaplets vous permettent de collaborer en temps réel sur n'importe quel document à partir de votre courrier électronique.

OBS

Le terme « Zaplet » provient d'une marque de commerce mais il est très répandu. Sur le modèle de « applet » il s'écrit souvent avec une minuscule.

Spanish

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Record 4 1981-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

Profit target may be the starting point or end point in planning or budgeting on whether the plan is indicative or normative. The mechanism of marginal costing relates profit targets to volume targets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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