The document discusses event management. It defines an event as something that happens at a specific time and place, involving people or things. Event management is applying skills to organize a focused event for an audience to achieve an objective. Common characteristics of events are that they are unique occurrences with limited duration, happening live for a purpose planned by groups. An event manager's role is to make events happen through planning, coordinating, and evaluating. The document also covers types of events, the five Ws and an H of event planning, components of an event budget like revenues and expenses, and sources of revenue for events.