operation

(noun)

The method or practice by which actions are done.

Related Terms

Examples of operation in the following topics:

  • Operating Margin

    • The operating margin is a ratio that determines how much money a company is actually making in profit and equals operating income divided by revenue.
    • It is found by dividing operating income by revenue, where operating income is revenue minus operating expenses .
    • However, the operating margin is not a perfect measurement.
    • Furthermore, the operating margin is simply revenue.
    • The operating margin is found by dividing net operating income by total revenue.

  • Types of Operations: Evolving operations through the K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade

    • We have now been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
    • What types of operations are expected of the 5th Grade curriculum?
    • Do the same operation images, analogies, and metaphors still apply from your previous realizations?
    • Why learn these types of operations now?
    • What number sets are we operating on in the elementary curriculum up to and including 5th grade?

  • Building a Landscape

    • Using key questions to help build out the evolving landscape of the elementary operations curriculum.
    • What types of operations are expected of the 4th grade curriculum?
    • Why learn these types of operations now?
    • Are there numbers that are being introduced that provoke the introduction of these operations that is also in the curriculum of 4th grade?
    • What human activities necessitated the creation of these operations?

  • Types of Operations: Evolving from K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade

    • We now have been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
    • What types of operations are expected of the 3rd Grade curriculum?
    • Do the same operation images, analogies, and metaphors still apply from your previous realizations?
    • Why learn these types of operations now?
    • What number sets are we operating on in the elementary curriculum up to and including 3rd grade?

  • Introduction

    • understand three of the most important operations management practices: Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, and Just-in-Time/Lean Operations

  • Activities of the Business: Financing, Investing, and Operating

    • Activities of the business include operating activities and non-operating activities such as investing activities, and financing activities.
    • Under GAAP, operating cash flows include:
    • In addition to operating activities businesses engage in non-operating activities.
    • Non-operating activities are not related to the day-to-day, ongoing operations of a business.
    • As with operating activities GAAP principles dictate how non-operating items are classified on the statement of cash flows.

  • Entailment Discussion for 4th Grade Operations

    • These prompts can be used to refine and adapt your realization of operations on elementary number sets:
    • How do factors and multiples help to show the inverse operational relationship between multiplication and division?
    • Is that relationship still true regardless of what number sets these operations are operating on?
    • Are there specific numbers where the operations are easily to calculate with?
    • For example, are there certain contexts when fractions representations are easier to operate with than decimal fractions?

  • Operating Expenses, Non-Operating Expenses, and Net Income

    • Operating expenses and non operating expenses are deducted from revenue to yield net income.
    • An operating expense is the ongoing cost of running a product, business, or system.
    • Paper, toner, power, and maintenance costs represent operating expenses.
    • In business, operating expenses are day-to-day expenses such as sales and administration.
    • Non operating expenses include loan payments, depreciation, and income taxes.

  • Building a Landscape

    • The following is an itemized list of questions that will help you build the landscape for the Kindergarten curriculum of operations:
    • Why learn these types of operations now?
    • Are there number sets that students are learning that provokes the introduction of these operations?
    • What human activities necessitated the creation of these operations?

  • Building a Landscape

    • Using key questions to help build out the evolving landscape of the elementary operations curriculum.
    • The following is a helpful list of questions that area designed to empower you to build the landscape for the Kindergarten through the third grade curriculum of operations:
    • What types of operations are expected of the 3rd grade curriculum?
    • Why learn these types of operations now?