Unit 1 Business and Concepts Concerned 1.1 Warm-up Activity 1.2 What Is Business? 1.3 Business Environment 1.4 Business Ideology 1.5 The Economic Context of Business 1.6 Summery 1.7 Consolidation Unit 2 Business Management 2.1 Warm-up activity-Case Analysis 2.2 Management 2.3 Functions of Management 2.4 Management Structure 2.5 Schools of Management Theory 2.6 Business Management 2.7 Consolidation Unit 3 Introduction to Planning and Business Plan 3.1 Warm-up Activity-Reading 3.2 Planning 3.3 Visions, Strategies and Plans 3.4 What Is a Plan? 3.5 Planning Styles 3.6 Business Plan Unit 4 Start Your Business 4.1 Warm-up Activity-Reading 4.2 How to Start Business 4.3 Consolidation Unit 5 Business Negotiation and Communication Skills 5.1 Warm-up Activity-Dialogue 5.2 Introduction to Negotiation 5.3 The 4 Phases of a Negotiation 5.4 The Key Part of Negotiations 5.5 The 3 Characteristics of a Negotiation 5.6 The Critical Factors 5.7 Two Types of Negotiating Approach 5.8 The Spirit of the Deal 5.9 Using an Agenda 5.10 Paying Attention to Detail 5.11 Communication Skills in Business 5.12 Consolidation Unit 6 Marketing Mix and Sales Promotion 6.1 Warm-up Activity 6.2 Developing the Marketing Mix 6.3 Sales Promotion 6.4 Additional Reading 6.5 Consolidation Unit 7 Corporate Finance Management 7.1 Warm-up Activity 7.2 Basic Knowledge of Financial Management 7.3 Accounting 7.4 Consolidation Unit 8 Supply Chain Management 8.1 Warm-up Activity 8.2 Supply Chain Management 8.3 Inventory Management 8.4 Appendix 8.5 Consolidation Unit 9 Effective Customer Service 9.1 Warm-up Activity-Case Analysis 9.2 What Is Effective Customer Service? 9.3 Characteristics of Companies That Practice ECS 9.4 Cost of Lost Customers 9.5 Consolidation Unit 10 The Importance of WTO 10.1 Warm-up Activity 10.2 WTO 10.3 Consolidation Unit 11 Business Environment in the New Century 11.1 Warm-up Activity-Reading 11.2 The Global Economy Tendency-Globalization 11.3 The Development of Multinational Corporations 11.4 Consolidation Appendix Words and Phrases References