Final Flashcards
Opportunity Cost
Your next best option – the choice you could have made but did not make.
Human resources (examples)
The physical, intellectual and creative talents of people.
Capital resources
man-made goods such as tools and factories.
Natural resources
gifts of nature such as water and natural gas.
Scarcity
A fundamental condition of all economic systems. Because of scarcity we must make choices.
Wealth
How much a person has in property, investments, income, etc.
Banking fee’s
Charges imposed by financial institutions on their customers for various services.
Advantages of an entrepreneur
Proves flexibility of working hours and job satisfaction, offers personal freedom, promotes innovation, paves ways of generating wealth.
Characteristics of an entrepreneur
Confident, hard-working, well organized, and self-starters.
Disadvantages of being an entrepreneur
Very long hours. Low salary in the beginning. Job stability relies on the success of the business.
Human capital
Personal attributes that are considered useful in the production process
Gross pay
The total amount of money a worker earns before any deductions are made.
Net pay
The amount left after all deductions are taken out of the gross income.
Paycheck - mandatory deductions (who pay)
Taken from an employee’s paycheck. To fund Social Security and Medicare programs.
FICA (what is stands for)
Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
Itemized deductions
Requires that you list out specific things to recieve tax deductions on (like real estate, losses)
Standard deductions
Do NOT require a seperate itemized form (details) to receive the tax deductions.
Income
The money you receive in exchange for your labor or products.
Median Pay
The pay in the middle.
Check cashing store
Allows customers to cash checks, send wire transfers (electronic transfers of money from one financial institution to another) and purchases money orders (pre-paid paper documents, other than checks, used for payments).
Payday Loan store
Offer customers loans for small amounts of money that must be repaid by the borrowers next payday.
Bank
Offers customers checking and savings accounts that are insured by the federal government; longer-term loans; home mortgages; credit cards; and retirement and investment accounts.