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Key Terms Business Activity And Influences On Business Flashcards

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Premises

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Building used by a business

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Business

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Organisation that produces goods and services

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Organisation

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Business that has formed for a particular purpose

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Goods

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Physical products, such as mobile or bread

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Service

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Non-physical product, such as banking

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Output

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Amount of goods produced by a person( machine or factory )

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Human Resources

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Department that deals with employing,training and helping people

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Consumer goods

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Goods and services sold to consumers

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Producer goods

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Goods and services produced by one business for another

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Needs

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Basic requirements for human survival

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Wants

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People’s desires for goods and services

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Infinite

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Without limit ( space or time )

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Finite

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Having a limit

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Scarce

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Resources with limited availability

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Private sector

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Private individuals that are trying to make a profit

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Public sector

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Business organisations owned by local governments

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Stakeholder

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Group with an interest in the operation of a business

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Entrepreneur

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Person who sets up a business

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EBITDA

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Earnings before interest,tax,depreciation and amortisation

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Objectives

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Targets set by a business

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Executives

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Managers in an organisation who help make important decisions

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Diversify

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Increases the range of goods or services business produces

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Financial return

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Monetary return

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Profit maximisation

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Making as much profit as possible in a given time period

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Shareholders

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Owners of limited companies

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Dividends

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Share of the profit paid to shareholders in a company

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Profit satisfying

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Making enough profit to satisfy the needs of the business owners

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Automation

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Use of computers and machines instead of people to do a job

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Economies of scale

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Financial advantages of producing something in very large quantities

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Large business

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A business that employs more than 250 people

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Small business

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A business that employs less than 50 people

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Revenue

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Money from the scale of goods and services

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Innovator

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Someone who introduces changes and new ideas

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Labour

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People employed in a business

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Unincorporated

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Business where there is no legal difference between the owner and the business

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Incorporated

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Business that has a separate legal identity from that of its owners

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Sole trader

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Business owned by a single person

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Unlimited liability

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If owner of a business fails, will lose more money than invested into a business

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Partnership

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Business owned by between 2 and 20 people

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Deep of partnership

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Legal document that states the formal rights of partners

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Limited partnership

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Partners that help financially but do not take part in running of the business

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Franchise

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Structure in which a business ( the franchisor) allows another operator ( the franchisee ) to trade under their name

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Merchandise

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Goods that are being sold

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Social enterprise

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Business aims to improve human or environmental well-being ( charities )

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Cooperative

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Organisation in which all the people working there own an equal share of it

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Consumer cooperative

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Cooperative owned by its customers

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Retail cooperative

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Members working together to confirm their purchasing power

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Worker cooperative

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Cooperative that is owned by its employees

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Charities

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Organisation that give money to help people

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Venture capitalists

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Investors who provide money for business purposes

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Limited companies

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Business organisations that have a separate legal identity from their their owners

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Chairperson

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Someone who in charge of a meetings of an organisation

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Certificate of incorporation

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Document needed before a new company can start doing business

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Private limited company (LTD)

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It limited by shares. A shareholder’s personal assets are protected

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Stock market

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Market for shares in PLCs

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Multinacional company

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Large business that operates in 2 or more countries

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Public limited company (PLC)

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It shares are freely sold and traded

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Prospectus

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Document produced by a company to sell it shares to the public

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Regulatory control

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Official power to control an activity

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Flotation

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Process of a company ‘going public’

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Issue ( shares )

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Sale of new shares

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Productivity

A

Rate ya which goods are produced

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Public corporation

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Business organisations owned and controlled by the government

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Infrastructure

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Basic system in organisation to work properly

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Portfolio

A

Collection of business products

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Natural monopoly

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Market that have just one organisation meeting total market demand

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Privatisation

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Transfer of public sector resources to the private sector

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Primary sector

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Production involving the extraction of raw materials from the earth

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Secondary sector

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Production involving the transformation of raw materials into finished goods

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Assembly plant

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Factory where parts are put together to make a finished product

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De - industrialisation

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Decline in manufacturing

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Brownfield sites

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Areas of land that were once used for urban development

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Tertiary sector

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The production of services in the economy

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Greenfield

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Undeveloped areas of lands

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Assisted areas

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Areas that are denoted by a government as having economic problems

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Viability studies

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Careful study of how a planned activity will work

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Trade bloc

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Group of countries that join together and trade free of barriers

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Emerging economies

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Rapidly growing economies

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Globalisation

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Growing integration of the world’s economies

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Piece rate

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Payment system where workers receive an amount of money for each unit produced

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Fringe benefits

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‘Perks’ over and above the normal wage

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Intellectual property

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Creative ideas that are protectable under different forms of copyright

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Monetary system

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System of money in a particular country that is controlled by governments

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Saturate ( market )

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To offer so much product for sale than there are people that want to buy

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Predator

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Business that use weakness of others to get advantage

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Hostile takeover

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Takeover that the company being taken over doesn’t agree to

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Bid

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Offer to pay a particular price for something

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Commodities

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Product that are bought and sold

eg gold,oil,rice etc

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Patents

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Document giving a company the right to make a new product and stating that others is not allowed to do this

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Ventures

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New business activity that involves taking risks

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Currency reserves

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Money in foreign currency used to support its own currency and to pay off the foreign debts

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Human capital

A

People and their skills

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Enterprise

A

Activity of starting a business

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Exploitation

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Treat someone unfairly by asking them to do things for you and pay back little in return

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Repatriation ( of profit )

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Returning profit from a developing country to a developed country

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