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Business Ess 2.02
business essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services |
| Consumer goods and services | Products produced for personal consumption |
| Consumers | People who use goods and services to satisfy their wants |
| Consumption | The process or activity of using goods goods and services the economic process or activity of using goods and services |
| Convenience products | Consumer goods or service purchases quickly and without much thought or effort |
| Demand | The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at the given price at a particular time |
| Distribution | The economic process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
| Economic goods | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants |
| Economic resources | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services |
| Economic services | productive acts that are useful, scarce and transferable and which satisfy economic wants |
| Economic want | A desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money |
| Economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, compering wants with limited resources |
| Elastic demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| Elasticity | An indication of how changes in prices will affect changes in the amount demanded application |
| Equilibrium | The point at which the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded |
| Equipment | Industrial goods used in the operation of business but not used on the actual production of a good or service |
| Excess demand | The situation that exists when demands is greater than supply |
| Excess supply | The situation that exists when supply is greater than demand |
| Exchange | The economic process of trading on good/service for another |
| Factors of production | Productive resources human and natural resources and capital goods |
| Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale |
| Human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
| Impulse item | Any item purchased as a result of an on the spot decision to buy |
| Industrial goods and services | Products purchases by the producers for resale to make others goods and services, and/or to use in business operations |
| Industrial goods and services | Products purchased by producers for resale to make other goods and services and/or to use in business operations |
| Inelastic demand | A form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand |
| Installations | High-cost long lasting industrial goods that are used to produce ither goods and services |
| Law of supply and demand | Economic principles which states that the quantity of a good or services that people will increase when demand is great and decrease when demand is low |
| Law of supply | Economic principles which states that the quantity of a good or service that will be offered for sale varies in direct relation to its price |
| Market research | The systematic gathering, recording and analyzing of data about specific issue situation or concern that affect a market |
| Materials | Industrial goods that become part of a finished product after they have neem processed |
| Noneconomic want | A desire for something that can be satisfied without spending money |
| Parts | Industrial goods that become part of a finished product without additional parts |
| Producers | The people who make or provide goods and services |
| Product | A good or service that a company sells to customers |
| Raw materials | Items in their natural state or condition |
| Scarce | Limited |
| Services | Intangible activities that are performed by other people for money productive acts that satisfy the costumer |
| Shopping products | Consumer goods and services purchased after customer compare products to get the best quality price and/or service |
| Specialty products | Consumers goods and services with special or unique characteristics that consumers are willing to expert special effort to obtain |
| Staple item | A frequently purchased items that businesses keep on hand continuously because the demand for it is constant |
| Supplies | Industrial goods that are constantly being purchased and used up in the operation of business |
| Tangible | capable of being touched smelled, tasted, seen, or heard; physical |
| Ultimate consumer | anyone who personally uses a good or services to satisfy their own wants |
| Unsought products | Consumer goods and services bought out of necessity or adversity rather that desire |
| want | A desire for something that may or many not be required |