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In a general context, a business manager is a person who manages the work of others in order to run a business efficiently. He or she should have working smarts of the following areas, and may be a specialist in one or more: sales, marketing, and public relations; research, operations analysis, data processing, mathematics, statistics, and economics; production; finance; accounting, auditing, tax, and budgeting; purchasing; and personnel.






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In a general context, a business manager is a person who manages the work of others in order to run a business efficiently. He or she should have working smarts of the following areas, and may be a specialist in one or more: sales, marketing, and public relations; research, operations analysis, data processing, mathematics, statistics, and economics; production; finance; accounting, auditing, tax, and budgeting; purchasing; and personnel. Other technical areas in which a business manager may have expertise are law, science, physics, and computer programming.

In the context of the music industry, a business manager is a representative of musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s and/or recording artists, whose main job is to supervise their business affairs, and the proper handling of their financial matters. The role as it is understood today was largely originated (and the term coined) by Allen Klein
Allen Klein

Allen Klein is a controversial American businessman and record label executive. His career highlights included celebrated clients such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones....
, who represented numerous performers through the years, helping them to both invest their incomes wisely and to recover unpaid (or underpaid) royalties
Royalties

Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property right.Royalties can be determined as a percentage of gross or net sales derived from use of the asset or a fixed price per unit sold....
 and fees.

The Association of Professionals in Business Management (APBM) offers the Certified Business Manager
Certified Business Manager

The Certified Business Manager is a accreditation created and administered by the Association of Professionals in Business Management . APBM developed the Common Body of Knowledge for Business , based on standard MBA curricula, as a standardized collection of the knowledge that APBM identified as essential for general business management....
 (CBM) and Certified Associate Business Manager (CABM) designations.

Business Manager is also the name of a Windows based application used to monitor sales trends, forecast demand, monitor sales force activity etc. It was developed by Matt Akers for Coats plc

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