Unit

1. Organisations - operations - financial reporting.

A separately identifiable part of an organisation.

For example, a cash-generating unit or a strategic business unit in a commercial organisation.

2. Organisations - specialisms.

A specialist group within a larger organisation.

For example, the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit of the UK police.

3. Manufacturing - production.

A single manufactured item.

Or a comparable single item of services.

For example, in the related cost per unit.

4. Measurement - metrics - standards.

A standardised amount - or other measure - of something, used to enable comparisons.

For example, the Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit in shipping.

Or the World currency unit.

5. Unit trusts.

The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust.

Comparable with a single share in other companies.

See also

• Branch
• Cash-generating unit
• Central processing unit
• Company
• Cost per unit
• Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit
• Financial reporting
• Operating unit
• Operations
• Production
• Reporting entity
• Sector
• Segment
• Share
• Strategic business unit
• Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit
• Unit trust
• World currency unit