Business Flashcards

The process of producing goods and servcies

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  1. What is business activity?
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The process of producing goods and services to satisfy consumers demand

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What is a need?

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Essential for life

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What is a want?

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The things you desire but not essential for life

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What is the purpose of business activity?

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Satisfy consumers needs and wants through services and goods production

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What is the reasoning of why we cant have all our wants?

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Our wants are unlimited

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If 100 people in the country had a much higher income than the rest of the population, what may happen?

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They buy more than they need
Items will become scarce
Trouble in politics

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Give a definition of economic problem?

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Unlimited wants cant be met because there are limited factors of production. Creates scarcity.

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What does factors of production mean?

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The resources needed to produce goods and services. (labour, captial, land, enterprise

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What does it mean when it says they are not enough factors of production?

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There are not enough goods and services to meet the populations wants

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What is ment by scarcity?

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There are not enough goods and services to meet the wants of the popluation

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What is ment by oppurtuntiy cost?

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Opportunity cost is what you give up when you choose to do one thing instead of another. It’s like deciding between buying candy or saving money for a toy. If you choose candy, the opportunity cost is the toy you could have bought instead.

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What is specialisation?

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Where people concentrate on what they are best at

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What does increasing specialistion mean?

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That buisnesses are far more efficient than once were

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Name a positive impact of specialisation

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Reduces the cost of production

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What is ment by division of labour

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Production is divided into separate tasks and each worker does just one of those task

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16
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What are the different types of goods and services?

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Consumer goods:
Goods which are sold in public, of which we can see and touch. They are separated into 2, non-durable goods and durable goods e.g. durable : items are repeated ‘tv’ non-durable: iteams that are used once “food or drinks”

Consumer services:
Products which are sold to the public, but cant be seen or touched e.g. banking, insurance

Capital goods:
Products are sold to other businesses to help them in their production process e.g. machines, computers

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How does a business add value?

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by taking raw materials and turning them into a good or service which sells to customers at a price greater than the cost of the raw materials used in their production

18
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When will profit increase when increasing added value?

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If a business is able to increase its added value without increasing its cost

19
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What is a positive trait for branding?

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Brings trust with customers
Increases added value

20
Q

How do you increase a good or services value?

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Excellence service quality
Build trust

21
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What are three ways u can increase goods or services value?

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Product feature
products that have more features and functions than similar products on the markert will allow the producerr to charge a high price

Covenience
many consumers lead busy lives nd they are often prepared to pay a higher price for goods or services, which saves time e.g. ready meals

22
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Can u do this?

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YES YOU CAN ZO AND GOOD LUCK, REMEMBER GOD IS WITH YOU AND HE LOVES YOU!