Enterprise - The production of a single crop or type of livestock, such as corn or dairy. A responsibility center.

• Primary enterprise - An enterprise that provides the foundation of the firm. The success of the primary enterprise is critical to the success of the firm.
• Secondary enterprise - An enterprise that supports a primary enterprise and/or the the mission and goals of the firm.

• Competitive enterprises - Enterprises for which the output level of one can be increased only by decreasing the output level of another.
• Complementary enterprises - Enterprises for which increasing the output level of one also increases the output level of the other.
• Supplementary enterprises - Enterprises for which the level of production of one can be increased without affecting the level of production of the other.