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Management
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| PRIMARY GOODS | satisfy essential needs |
| NON-ESSENTIAL GOODS | satisfy non-essential needs |
| Complementary goods | You need both to satisfy a need |
| Substitute goods | You need only one to satisfy a need |
| Differentiable goods | Different characteristics |
| Commodities | no features |
| Consumer goods | For final use |
| Industrial goods | Used to produce other goods |
| Disposable goods | Used once |
| Durable goods | Used more than once |
| Goods for individuals | Consumed by single individuals |
| Collective consumption | Consumed by more individuals |
| Public goods | The goods that are both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in consumption or produced by the state. |
| EXCLUDABILITY | Consumption can exclude other people consumptions |
| Rivalry | Consumption excludes the consumption of other similar products |
| What an economic activity involves? | Technical transformation, Transactions, Complementary activities (i.e management) |
| Individuals in business | - Owners - Customers - Employees |
| Management | Oversees a company and manage its resources |
| Marketing | Focus on the 4 P’s –product, price, place/distribution and promotion |
| Finance | All the activities involving money |
| Entrepreneur | An individual who risks its time, money and resources to create a profitable company |
| Role of government: | - preserves competition and protects the economic agents - controls market fluctuations and reduces unemployment - stimulates the market spending |
| Non-profit organizations: | - private and are not allowed to distribute their profits or assets - require skills to manage them - could involve many activities |
| Business: | Any organization that is engaged in making a product providing a service for profit |
| Society: | refers to human beings (members of aparticular community, nation, or interest group)and to the social structures they collectively create. |