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Why Businesses Fail

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Lack of Demand
Lack of Skill/Knowledge
Forgetting your Roots
Expanding Too Quickly
Lack of Capital
Inability to Stay Competitive

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Profit equation

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Revenues - Expenses = Profit

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How do you measure business success?

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  1. Increasing Profit
  2. Employee Satisfaction
  3. Personal Satisfaction
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Social Costs of International Business

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Outsourcing
Human rights and labour abuses
Environmental degradation

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Benefits of International Business

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Access to many markets outside of Canada
Cheaper labour reduces production costs
Increased quality of goods
Access to resources

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Canada’s economic goals (measures how the economy is doing)

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Keep the economy growing over time (measured by GDP)
Limit unemployment (measured by unemployment rate)
Keep prices stable (measured by inflation rate)

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Three types of economic systems

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  1. Centrally planned
  2. Capitalism (Free Market)
  3. Mixed
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Improving Productivity

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Training
Capital investments

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Pros and Cons to Franchises

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Benefits to franchising:
Brand recognition
Share in advertising
Manual on how to run franchise

Disadvantages to franchising:
Fees can be expensive
You can’t run the business the way you want to

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Forms of Business Ownership

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  1. Sole proprietorship
  2. Partnership
  3. Corporation
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Why We Buy

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Seven key factors influence consumer buying decisions:
1. Income
2. Price
3. Emotion
4. Trends
5. Customs/Habits
6. Safety
7. Promotion

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How do consumers benefit from competition?

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Lower prices
Higher quality goods and services
More selection
New innovations

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Supply and Demand

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Supply > Demand: price of good or service goes down
Demand > Supply: price of good or service goes up
Supply = Demand: success!

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Categorizing businesses

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Profit or Non-profit?
Large or Small
Forms of Business Ownership
Goods or Services
Channels of Distribution

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Business

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An organization that produces or sells goods/services to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers for the purpose of making a profit

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Needs

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Essential for human survival

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Wants

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Not essential for survival

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Real Needs

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Basic needs that are tangible (such as food, shelter)

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Psychological Needs

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Needs that are intangible and emotional (such as companionship, security)

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Goods

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A tangible product that will be sold, likely for profit.

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Services

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Anything intangible that someone does for a fee, without a tangible good changing hands.

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Turnover
Employees leaving the company and then being replaced by new workers
Profit
(Bottom Line)
Revenues - Expenses = Profit
Revenue
The amount of money a business receives for selling its goods/services
Expense
Costs involved in running a business (electricity, taxes, wages, etc)
Obsolete
A product is replaced by a better, more technologically advanced product. It is no longer sold.
Capital
The money or wealth needed to produce goods and services
Financing
Raising capital to fund your organization

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Big-box retailer

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A physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.

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Bricks and Mortar

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Physical places that customers visit to make purchases

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e-commerce
Virtual store, where business is conducted electronically over the Internet, without a store or showroom
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SMEs
Small to medium-sized enterprises
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Market
Any arrangement that enables buyers and sellers to get information and to do business with each other
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Demand
The amount of a good or service that customers are willing to purchase at a particular prices
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Supply
The amount of a good or service available for consumption
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Producer
An individual or business that makes a product
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Customer
A person who buys goods and services
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Consumer
A person who uses goods and services
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Royalty
Compensation for usage of your work
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CEO
Chief Executive Officer (the highest ranking person in a company)
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Conspicuous Consumption
Some people flaunt their purchases just to impress others
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Peer Pressure
Feeling pressured by friends to make a purchase
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Custom
Special holidays or occasions
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Habit
Formed over time and are done repetitively
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Sole Proprietorship
One owner is entitled to all profits and is responsible for all liabilities (unlimited liability)
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Partnership
Two or more people (partners) share profits and losses according to the partnership agreement
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Partnership Agreement
A legal document that allows members of a partnership to establish rules for their relationship and to specify the conditions that will cause the partnership to dissolve. General partners have unlimited liability and have full management control of the business. Limited partners have little to no involvement in management, but have liability that's limited to their investment in the partnership.
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Corporation
The ownership of a corporation is divided into many small parts (shares or stock). Individuals can buy a “share” of ownership in the company. The risk of failure is spread among shareholders (who have a share in your company’s future profits).
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Stockholder
A person that owns a share of a company.
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Private Corporations
Only a few owners control all of the stock. Not listed on a stock exchange.
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Public Corporations
Shares are available to the entire public on the stock exchange. Lots of owners!
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Crown Corporations
Operated by the provincial/federal government Ex: Via Rail, Canada Post, CBC
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Franchise
The franchiser licenses the rights to its name, operating procedures, designs and business expertise to another business (the franchisee).
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Resources (factors of production)
Natural Resources — raw materials (Ex: soil, gold, trees, fish, grain) Human Resources — people Capital Resources — needed to produce goods/services (Ex: buildings, equipment, trucks, money)
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Management
Allocates the factors of production to make the business successful
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Productivity
The quantity and quality of work performance
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Effective
An output measure (was the task completed or the goal accomplished?)
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Efficient
An input measure (were the costs associated with completing the task done at a minimum?)
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Interdependence
Businesses relying on other businesses to help them produce goods & services that satisfy consumer needs and wants.
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Economy
The independent system where government and businesses work together to provide goods and services to consumers
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Economic System
A way of dealing with the selection, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
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Centrally planned
Government controls all economic decision making
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Capitalism (free market)
A business is “free” to own private property and make a profit. Consumers are “free” to buy goods/services from whomever they choose (freedom of choice)
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Mixed Economy
No economic system exists in pure form. Most economies are mixed, with private and public companies.
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Public sector
Government that provides services
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Private sector
Businesses that are individually owned and operated whose purpose is to make a profit
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Privatization
Public sector organizations are sold to the private sector
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Inflation
Occurs when the price of many products goes up while the purchasing power of money decreases
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Purchasing Power
The amount and quality of goods and services that money can buy
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GDP
The total market value of all goods and services produced within a country in one year
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Unemployment Rate
The number of able-to-work people who don’t have jobs as a % of the labour force
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International Business (globalization)
All business activities needed to create, ship, and sell goods and services across national borders.
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Domestic business
Business that takes place entirely within a country’s borders
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Trade
Allows countries to expand their markets and access goods and services that otherwise may not have been available domestically
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Import
Bringing in goods/services to sell in Canada
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Export
Selling goods/services from Canada to another country
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Trading Partner
When a business in Canada develops a relationship with a business in another country
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Tariff
A tax imposed by the local government on goods and services coming into a country
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CAD
Canadian dollar
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Free trade
Removing tariffs on certain goods traded between countries
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NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement Created a Canada/U.S./Mexico free-trade zone Eliminates duties, barriers, and restrictions on almost all products and services traded
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USMCA
US/Mexico/Canada Agreement (which replaced NAFTA)
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Culture
The sum of a country’s way of life, beliefs, and customs
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Economies of Scale
The more products you can make using the same factory, the cheaper each product becomes

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