📖What it means

A line of business in Carolverse — a coherent area of what the estate DOES, with an owning agent, its own tracks of work, its own budget and its own profit-and-loss. Services are how money and accountability are divided: every unit of work belongs to one, and work that belongs to none is undeclared.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "System service", "distinction": "A Carolverse service is a line of BUSINESS; a system service is a long-running PROGRAM on the machine. Same word, unrelated meanings \u2014 this is the single most confusing collision in the estate."}, {"term": "Track", "distinction": "A service is the whole line of business; a track is one line of work inside it, and the track \u2014 not the service \u2014 is what a spending limit binds to."}, {"term": "App", "distinction": "A service is the business; an app is one window onto it."}]

📖Also called

- business service
- line of business
- P&L unit

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Governance.