Intro To Business 3 Flashcards

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What is accounting?

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A system of recognizing, organizing, analyzing, and reporting information about the financial transactions that effect an organization

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What are the 3 types of accountants?

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Public- provides services like tax preparation or management consulting on a fee basis
Management- accountants inside an organization
Gvt- work inside a government doing stuff for the federal, and state level

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3
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What is financial accounting?

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Branch that prepares financial statements for use by owners, creditors, suppliers, and other external stakeholders.

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4
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What is owners equity?

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The claims a firms owners have against their company’s assets

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5
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What is an income statement?

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Financial statement that reports the revenues, expenses, and net income that resulted from a firms operations over an accounting period

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6
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Accrual-basis accounting

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Method of accounting that recognizes revenue when it is earned and matches expenses to the revenues they helped produce

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What is horizontal analysis?

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Analysis of financial statements that compares account values reported on these statements over 2 or more years of to identify changes and trends

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What is managerial accounting?

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Branch of accounting that provides reports and analysis to managers to help them make informed business decisions

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9
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What is implicit cost?

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Opportunity cost that arises when a firm uses owner supplied resources

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10
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What are the 3 main things accountants do?

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Create balance sheets
Income statements
Statements of cash flows

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What is marketing?

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Organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stockholders

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12
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What are the types of utilities? What is utility?

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Ability of goods and services to satisfy consumer wants

Form
Time
Place
Ownership

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13
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What are the different types of marketing?

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Place: attract ppl to a business to certain place
Event: attract ppl to an event (SB, Olympics)
Idea: persuade ppl to think as you do
Ppl: trying to market yourself to others

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What is a marketing plan?

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A plan that directs ones effort and times to marketing something

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What is market segmentation?

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Dividing potential customers into groups of similar people or segments

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What is target marketing?

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Marketing to the group of ppl that you think is most likely to buy your product

17
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What is the importance of demographics in marketing?

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Want to make sure you are marketing to ppl that may buy your product

18
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What is market research?

Why is it important?

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The process of gathering, interpreting, and applying info to uncover marketing opportunities and challenges, and to make better decisions down the road

Gives input on where to market

19
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Why is consumer behavior important?

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If know behaviors in the past, you can better predict future

20
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What is a product?

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Anything that an organization offers to satisfy consumer wants and needs. Including both goods and services

21
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What are the cycles of a product?

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Intro
Growth
Maturity
Decline

22
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What are the benifits to a product?

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Provides a good or service

23
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What is the classification of a product?

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Convenience
Shopping
Specialty
Unsought

24
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What is distribution?

Why is it important?

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Actual movement of along distribution pathway

How you get product to ppl

25
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What are distribution statagies?

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Plan of delivering the right product, to the right place, to the right person, at right time

26
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Who are agents?

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Connect buyers to sellers?

27
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Who are retailers?

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Distributions that sell products to the ultimate users (typically small quantities, stored and merchandised on the premises)

28
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Who are whole salers?

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By the products from producers, sell to other business or nonfinancial users like hospitals, nonprofits, and gvts

29
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What is a brand?

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Products identity

30
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What is brand equity?

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Extra money consumer will spend to buy that brand

31
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What is logistics?

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Tactics involved in moving products

32
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What is a product mix?

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Total number of product lines by a single firm