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BE 204
Business Essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services. |
| competition | The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars. |
| Economic resources | The organized way in which a country handles its economic decisions and solves its economic problems. |
| economic system | The organized way in which a country handles its economic decisions and solves its economic problems. |
| entrepreneur | An individual who invents, develops, a good or provides a service. |
| human resources | People who work to produce goods or services. |
| market economy | An economic system in which the questions of what, how, and whom the goods will be produced for. |
| marketplace | Anywhere the buying and/or selling of goods and services takes place. |
| mixed system | An economic system in which individuals make most economic decisions but some government control and ownership exist. |
| natural resources | Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services. |
| price-directed system | A descriptive term for the American private enterprise economy because price determines what people buy, the jobs they take, the success of failure of the business. |
| private enterprise | An economic system in which individuals and groups rather than the government, own control or control the means of production |
| private property | Anything of value that people own |
| profit | Monetary reward a business owner recieves for taking the risk involved in investing in a business; income left once all expenses are paid |
| profit motive | The desire to make a profit which moves people to invest in business. |