back office

Swedish translation: back office

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)

English term or phrase:	back office
Swedish translation:	back office

For term searches and specialty glossaries, please try the new GBK glossaries

09:59 Jan 7, 2010

English to Swedish translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
Additional field(s): Finance (general), Human Resources, IT (Information Technology)

English term or phrase: back office

Definition from Alan V. Deardorff:
Refers to the activities of a firm that are necessary to its functioning but are not directly part of production, such as accounting.

Example sentence(s):

ANZ India is set to transfer 400 back office jobs from Australia and New Zealand to India in the next eight to 10 months. The Telegraph of Calcuta
Financial institutions all around the world are saving millions by successful transformation of their back office operations. Major European banks are doing everything possible to make their back office operations faster, cheaper, more secure and more effective. Jacob Fleming Conferences
Back offices of traditional money mangers are now being faced with the tracking, accounting, reporting, analytics and performance measurement of these complex assets. Without this back office capability, it becomes more difficult to maintain the existing business, and even more difficult to grow total assets under management. Thomsom White Paper

Glossary-building KudoZ

This question was created by:

Glossary-building KudoZ

This question is closed

back office

Definition:
The back office is generally considered to be the technology, services and human resources required to manage a company itself. Back office includes such systems as the IT, human resources and accounting departments. The back office is supported by a back end system.

Selected response from:

Bertil Andreazon
Sweden

Grading comment

4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of translations provided

4 +2

back office

Bertil Andreazon

Translations offered

39 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

back office

Definition from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/back_off:
The back office is generally considered to be the technology, services and human resources required to manage a company itself. Back office includes such systems as the IT, human resources and accounting departments. The back office is supported by a back end system.

Example sentence(s):

The back office is generally considered to be the technology, services and human resources required to manage a company itself. Back office includes such systems as the IT, human resources and accounting departments. The back office is supported by a back end system - http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/back_off
The concept as such does not need a translation in Swedish! Back office is a generic term. - http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/back_off

Explanation:
Begreppet 'Back office' är en generisk term som inte behöver översättas!

Bertil Andreazon
Sweden
Local time: 19:06
Native speaker of:

Swedish
PRO pts in category: 81

Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:

ProZ.com term search

Search millions of term translations

back office

Swedish translation: back office

Translations offered

KudoZ™ translation help

Your current localization setting

Select a language

back office

Swedish translation: back office

Translations offered

KudoZ™ translation help

You have native languages that can be verified

Your current localization setting

Select a language