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accounting, HR management, call centers, etc. function or process. e.g. administrative functions such as BPO (Business Process Outsourcing): Outsourcing of a business CRM (Customer Relationship Management): Managing customer relationships (after–sales service, purchasing advice, utilization loyalty. efficiency, it also leads to higher sales by building customer company’s successful operation. Not only does CRM facilitate advice, customer loyalty) has become a strategic component of a integrated management software system built in modules, which ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning): An ERP system is an Consensus: Opinion that emerges from the financial (market consensus). consensus) or to a group of companies in the same sector Consensus can relate to earnings outlook (individual stock community, in which financial analysts play a prominent role. impact on common stock. converted into shares and have therefore a potential dilutive warrants, stock subscription options, free shares, which could be Dilutive instruments: Financial instruments such as bonds, that are distributed to stockholders. Dividends: Cash or stock payments from a company’s profits Enterprise Value (EV): Market capitalization + debt. Euronext): excludes shares in the six categories listed below (source capital that is regularly traded on the stock exchange. It Free float: Free float is the proportion of a company’s share meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code; company held by companies that it controls within the shares held by Group companies: Shares of the listed • (management positions, control by voting rights, influence founders have managerial or supervisory influence the founders (individuals or family group) when these shares held by founders: shares held directly or indirectly by • that is a matter of public knowledge, etc.); Market terms H.1.4

accounting and human resources systems into an is capable of integrating sales, manufacturing, purchasing, enterprise-wide management information system. generally comprises several local networks and covers a large WAN (Wide Area Network): A long–distance network that geographical area. billing (no longer cross-border electronic payments surcharge). where all transactions will be considered as domestic in terms of European countries involving the creation of a specific zone SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area): Regulating initiative from

controlled by the State; or by public sector or other companies which are themselves shares held by the State: Interests held directly by the State, • other than those held by founders or the State; article 233/10 and 11 of the French Commercial Code, and subject to a shareholders’ agreement within the meaning of shares within the scope of a shareholders’ agreement: Shares • meaning of article 233/3 of the French Commercial Code; than founders or the State) exercising control within the controlling interest: Shares held by juridical persons (other • category also includes shareholders that, in addition to or in the impact of dilution, in the three preceding years. This have not declined by one percentage point or more, excluding interests considered stable: Interests exceeding 5%, which • agreements with the Group. have recently entered into significant industrial or strategic association with the link represented by share ownership, by the number of its shares in issue. Market capitalization: The share price of a company multiplied income for a trailing (or forward) 12-month period. PER (Price Earnings Ratio): Market capitalization divided by net successive prices. measured by the standard deviation of the ratio of two Volatility: The variability of movements in a share price,

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