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Working with wikis

Use [[w:Fairtrade]] to link to Wikipedia's article on fairtrade and [[w:fr:Commerce équitable]] to link to the article in the French Wikipedia as simple as that. ( works for all languages, just insert the correct lang code )

Do not submit copyrighted or copyright not known material

Respect the w:copyright of people ( teachers ) and institutions ( HH, other universities ) and book publishers and do not submit material you are not able to w:copyleft.

Brief introduction

w:International business is a term used rarely to describe all commercial transactions (private and w:governmental, w:sales, w:investments, w:logistics,and w:transportation) that take place between two or more w:regions, w:countries and w:nations beyond their political boundary. ( Wikipedia )

w:International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across w:international borders or territories. ( Wikipedia )

Timeline of international trade streches from ancient times to modern fairly globalized globe of today.

w:Multidirectional w:import/w:export == International trade

A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in w:business administration. Such a school can also be known as a business college, college of business, college of business administration, school of business, school of business administration, or, colloquially, b-school.

A business school teaches topics such as

1. w:accounting,
2. administration,
3. strategy,
4. w:economics,
5. w:entrepreneurship,
6. w:finance,
7. w:human resource management,
8. w:information systems,
9. w:marketing,
10. w:organizational behavior
11. w:public relations,
12. w:quantitative methods. ( Wikipedia )

Courses in English

Period I

• Business English
• The Developing Professional
• ICT Skills for Business 1

Period II

• Sustainable Global Environment ( mnemonic BISC-uit )

• • Business Economics - w:Economics for w:business purposes
  • ICT Skills for Business 2 - w:Excel
  • Services Marketing - w:Services marketing
  • Corporate Responsibility - w:Corporate responsibillity

Period III

• Developing Entrepreneurial Competences ( mnemonic ABCEL )

• • Accounting 1
  • Business Math 1
  • Customer oriented operations planning (marketing)
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Law

Locate more information

• w:Category:Business economics ( w:Business economics is much wider definition then we had. )
• w:Category:Commerce ( w:Commerce )

In Finnish / Suomeksi

Suomenkielisen Wikipedian w:fi:Luokka:Liiketalous on merkittävä relevanttien artikkelien kokoelma.

• Finnish for Business Purposes ( in Finnish )

Useful & good to know stuff and services

Language tools

• http://www.onelook.com - look up English words in English from over 500 dictionaries with one search
• http://www.etymonline.com - look up etymologies of English lang words. Start with etymology of the word "business"
• http://www.wordreference.com - free high quality dictionaries
• http://www.memrise.com - Language learning environment with a plethora of learning programs

Cool collaboration tool: Etherpad

• https://pad.riseup.net and http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ among others offer any amount of free w:Etherpads, a system for collaboration of many people on a text document in realtime. Pads provided by riseup will self-destruct 30 days after last access.

General information

• Resources for the entrepreneur
• Vocabulary

Misc.

• http://TheHungerSite.org - donate 1.1 cups of food by clicking once a day. Paid for by the advertisers and sponsors.
• http://WorldCommunityGrid.org - donate your spare CPU cycles to good use for various good causes at the cost of few watt-hours.
• The Internet Users Forever IKI(.fi) is a non-profit society which provides its members, private individuals in Finland, permanent iki.fi-addresses with e-mail and WWW forwarding (IKI does not host the web pages or offer internet services, it just forwards the addresses).This allows our members to keep the same personal identity should the actual location or ISP of their e-mail or www homepages change.

iki.fi Membership application ( only in Finnish ) ( cost 30€, the iki.fi association has never collected yearly payments from it's members all operations are funded by new people joining in )

Gift vouchers are available here. This link opens a blanko ( non-valid ) gift voucher page. Hit the "Luo uusi lahjakortti"-button at the bottom of the page to create a valid one. Follow instructions given on-page in Finnish to pay the 30€ to iki.fi association bank account to make the gift voucher valid.