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Business Essentials
2.02 vocabulary terms to study.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economy | process/system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and brought in country or religion. (the way people spend and make money) |
| Economics | study to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources |
| Economic Goods | physical objects that are useful scarce and transferable and which satisfy economic wants/goods |
| Economic Services | productive acts that are useful/ scare/transferable satisfy economic wants |
| Need | something required/essential that is lacking |
| Want | desire for something not required |
| Economic Want | desire for something only satisfied by spending money |
| NonEconomic Wants | desires for things that can be abstained w/o spending money |
| Scarcity | condition resulting from gap between limited resources/ unlimited wants for goods and services |
| Consumer Goods and Services | products produced for personal consumption |
| Industrial Goods and Services | products purchased by producers for resale, make other goods n’ services and/or business operations |
| Retailers | business that buys consumer goods/services and then sells them to ultimate consumers |
| Service business | business that performs tangible activities that satisfy the needs/wants of consumers and industrial users |
| Trade industries | businesses that buy and sell goods to others; retailers and wholesalers |
| Wholesaler | intermediaries help move goods between producers and retailers by buying goods from producers and selling them to retailers |
| Producers | The people who make and provide good for services |