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Bussiness essential
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Costs of goods | The amount of moeny a business pays for the products it sells of for the raw materials from which it produces goods to sell, The amount of money A BUSINESS PAYS FOR THE PRODUCT |
| Creditors | Individuals or businesses to whom a business owes moeny or from whom it wants to borrow moeny |
| demand | The quantity of a good or servuce that buyers are ready to buy at a given price |
| Economy | the system in which people make and spen their incomes |
| efficiency | Accomplsihing a task with a minimum expenditure of time and effort |
| Exspeneses | The money a business spends |
| Gross profit | Money left after the cost-f-goods exspense is subtracted from total income |
| Income | The moeny received by resource owners and producers for supllying goods and services |
| Net profit | Money left after the cost of goods expsenses and the operating espense are each subtracted from the total |
| Operating exspense | All of the exspenses involved in running a business |
| Pricing | a merketing function that incolves determing and adjusting prices to maximize return meet consumers |
| Private enterprice system | An economic system in which individuals and groups rather than the governmnt own or control the means of production also known w=as the marketeconomy |
| Profit | Monetary reward a business a owner receives for taking the risk involved in invetsing in a business income lfts once all expsnes are paid |
| Profit motive | The desire to make a profit which moves people to invest in business |
| resources | items that are used to accomplish another activity such as producing,providing goods and services |
| Risk | The possibility of loss or failure |
| Suppliers | Vendors, businesses from which other businesses buy goods or services |
| Taxes | Monies that individuals or businesses must pay to the government |