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Found of Bus Ch 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asset | What a business owns |
| Business | refers to the aspects of making, selling, and providing products in exchange for money. |
| Business activity | Anything a business does that helps it generate a profit |
| Business ethics | refers to the moral and social responsibility of businesses to demonstrate ethical behavior in their policies and decision |
| Business plan | A series of documents that serve as blueprints for building a business. |
| 6. Customer | people who purchase the goods and services businesses offer. |
| Economic activity | refers to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. |
| Economic resource | are the goods and services businesses use to meet consumer wants and needs. |
| Economic system | an organized way in which a state or nation distributes its resources and provides goods and services to the community. |
| Economics | is the science of how individuals, businesses, and governments make decisions about satisfying unlimited wants with limited resources. |
| Good | goods refer to tangible items that are produced and sold to consumers, such as clothing or groceries. |
| Investment | means using money to create wealth over time and is achieved through investment vehicles such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate, among others. |
| Liability | are what a business owes. |
| Market | Places where goods and services are exchanged |
| Need | is something essential to survival, |
| Net worth | refers to the total value of a business determined by assets minus liabilities. |
| product | is anything that can be bought or sold. |
| Profit | is the financial gain calculated by the difference between amount earned and amount spent by a business. |
| Service | refers to the performance of a particular task in exchange for money. |
| Standard of living | refers to the level of wealth, material goods, and necessities considered to be essential to an individual or group in a particular geographic area. |
| Tax | mandatory payments to the local, state, and national government for public services. |
| Wage | money earned in exchange for work. |
| Want | is something we desire but could ultimately live without. |