Enterprise Flashcards
Entrepreneur?
A person who has the idea for a new business, starts it and carries most of the risk and benefits from the rewards like profit.
Customer?
An individual consumer or organisation that purchases goods or services from a business.
Consumer?
A person who purchases goods or services for personal use.
consumer goods?
Tangible goods sold to consumers with intention of not to resale, including durable such as cars and non durable such as food items.
consumer services?
non-tangible products sold to consumer with no intention of resale such as hotel accommodation or insurance services.
factors of production?
Resources needed by a business to produce goods or services such as:
Labor(service)
Capital(goods)
enterprise(services)
land(goods)
capital good?
Goods which are responsible for the production of other good for example:
A ice cream machine produces ice cream.
In this case ice cream machine is capital good.
Added value?
Difference between the cost used to buy goods materials and the selling price of finished goods.
For example:
You bought raw leather(material) for 100$ and then make a leather jacket(finished good) from it and marked a sale price of 300$ the difference between these both price is known as added value.
Scarcity and opportunity cost?
limited resources, unlimited wants.
And when there is limited resources sometimes you need to choose between the two option and the option you leave is opportunity cost as it is the best next alternative.
Dynamic business environment?
It consists of new competitors, legal changes, economic changes and technological changes.
This is a major cause of change within business as decision making by entrepreneur is more focused on the change in business environment.
Business succeed?
- understanding of customer need.
- flexible decision making.
- Efficient management.
- Enough resources of finance.
Business fail?
- poor record keeping.
- lack of cash
- poor management skills.
Difference between international and multinational business?
International means a business just selling products by the help of dealers in other countries, however in multinational the business have branches or operations in more than one country.
intrapreneur
Business employee who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into profitable new product or business venture.
Quality of a successful entrepreneur
innovative, self motivated, multi skilled, leader, self confidence to bounce back and risk taker.