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Business activty Flashcards

1
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A need

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A good or service essential for living

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A want

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A good or service that people would like to have but is not essential for living `

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3
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Economic problem

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Unlimited wants but limited resources

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Scarcity

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Lack of resources to meat the demand

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5
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Opportunity cost

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The next best item given up by choosing another

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Factors of production

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Resources needed to produce goods and services

  • land
  • enterprise
  • labor
  • capital
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7
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Business

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An organization that combines factors of production to satisfy peoples’ needs and wants

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8
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Specialization

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People and business focus on what they are best at

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Division of labor

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Production is split into seperate tasks and each worker specializes in one task

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10
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Added value

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The difference between selling price and cost of materials

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Primary sector

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Businesses that extract and use natural resources to produce raw materials

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Secondary sector

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Businesses that manufacture goods using raw materials from the primary sector

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Tertiary sector

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Businesses that provided services to consumers and other firms

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14
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Deindustrialization

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The decline in the importance of the secondary manufacturing industry

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15
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Mixed economy

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Has both public and private sector

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16
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Public sector

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Businesses owned by the government

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17
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Private sector

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Businesses owned by people, not by government

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Privatization

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The sale of a business in the public sector to the private sector

19
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Entrepreneur

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Some one who organizes, operates, and takes the risk of a new business venture

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Business plan

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The objectives and details of operations, finance, and owners of a new business

21
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Capital employed

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The total value of capital used in a business

22
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Internal growth

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The business expands its existing operations

23
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External growth

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The business expands by merging with or taking over another business

24
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Takeover

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A business buys out the owners of another business

25
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Merger

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The owners of two businesses agree to join their business together to form one

26
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Horizontal integration

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A business integrates with another business in the same industry and level of production

27
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Vertical integration (backwards and forwards)

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A business integrates with another business in the same industry but on a different level of production

28
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Conglomerate integration (diversification)

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A business integrates with another in a different industry

29
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Sole trader

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The business is owned by one person

30
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Partnership

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The business is jointly owned by two or more people

31
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Limited liability

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The liability of owners and shareholder is limited to the amount invested, personal possessions are not at risk

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Incorperted business

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A business with a seperate idenity from its owners

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Private limited company

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A business owned by shareholders but it can not sell shares to the public

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Public limtted company

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A business owned by shareholder but it can sell shares which are tradable on the stock exchange.

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Shareholders

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The owners of a limited company

36
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Dividends

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The payments which must be made to share holders from the profits of a company

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Franchise

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A business that licenses its brand name, logo, trading methods and brand image and sells it to franchises

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Joint Venture

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Two or more people start a new product together sharing capital, profits and risks

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Public corperation

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A business in the public sector that is owned and controlled by the government

40
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Business objectives

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The aims or targets that a business works towards

41
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Profit

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Revenue-costs

42
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Market share

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The percentage of market sales held by a brand (sales by business/total sales in market) x 100

43
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Social enterprise

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An organization with profit, environmental and social objectives

44
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Stakeholder

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A person with direct interest in the performance of a business

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