Prelim 2 (Entrep) Flashcards
It is continuously improving so that life today is very different from the past and the developments we see today are unknown to the previous generations
Space/Computer technology
It is the evolutionary growth of various activities developing from a simple to a complex system
Business
There is so much complexity in this area because it involves the whole range of human wants and needs
Business
This involved men and deal with men
Business organizations
It primarily aims to satisfy the consumer’s basic and secondary needs
Business
It can be achieved through the use of effective business marketing practices and strategies for reasonable returns to compensate for the businessman’s efforts and risk of loss.
Business
It is the main objective of business which distinguishes it from charitable institutions and government agencies
Profit
He aims at maximizing his profit so that he can provide for himself and keep his business viable
Businessman
He should be entitled to a reasonable return on investments because, in addition to using his skills and exerting his effort he takes the risk of loss
Businessman
Profit should be maximized to provide a fair share workers of
Just wages and incentives
Profit should be maximized to provide a fair share to the owner or stockholders
Dividends
Profit should be maximized to provide a fair share to the management
Professional renumeration and profit participation
Profit should be maximized to provide a fair share to customers and clients
Reasonable prices
This requires a continuing if not lifetime study
Complexity of today’s business
It is the sum total of all the enterprises that play a vital part in the production and marketing of goods and services to ultimate consumers
Business
In practical and legal sense, it is any activity involved in the production and distribution of goods and services, aimed to meet the economic needs of consumers with an objective of eventually earning profit
Business
Role of business
Produce goods and services which consumers needs
It produced goods and services from the factors of production provided by society, _____in turn by these goods
Business firm
Consumers
It contribute to the country’s economic growth–
Business firm
GNP
It is the total market value of goods and services produced by a country in any given period (_____ or _____)
Gross National Products
Quarterly or Semi-annually
It co-exists and interrelates with other members in the economic system
Business firm
A group of business firms offering similar goods and services
Industry
Examples of Industry
Petroleum Car Electronics Chemicals Banking and finance Construction industries
Industries is broadly classified as ____ such as
Sectors
Government Manufacturing Agricultural Construction Trade
The study of how a society produced and distributes its desired goods and services
Economics
It deals with how society uses its resources to produces goods and services
Economics
The economic resources to produce
Factors of production
Factors of production:
Land
Labor
Capital
Entrepreneur
It pertains to all natural resources, including timber, minerals, petroleum, and the land itself.
Land
It refers to the physical and mental input of the people who produce the goods and services.
Labor
Buys and organizes these three factors of production to provide goods and services. In return, he profits if his products are in demand and inherent in all business ventures.
Entrepreneur or businessman
It is different between the income an entrepreneur receives from the sale of his goods and services and the expenses he incurs to produce them (income-expenses)
Profit
It is important in business. It is the prime motivator in a capital system.
Profit
A part of larger economic system
Business enterprise
He is employed to do a job and is directly responsible to the board of directors elected by the shareholders, who own the company.
Manager
He employs worker to help run the business. In return, he must pay fair wages and benefits, provide a safe and healthy working environment and treat them well.
Managers
He is responsible to his customers in providing goods and services of satisfactory quality at competitive prices
Manager
Involves a complicated process of stimulus-and-response system
Human behavior and consumer behavior
Postulated theory by an industrial psychologist
Abraham W. Maslow
Five needs:
Physiological need Safety need Social need Self-esteem need Self-Actualization need
The essentials for survival, such as the need for food, clothing, shelter, sex, air, water
Physiological need
The desire for security, stability, or protection against danger
Safety need
The need for group belongingness, affection, love, and friendship
Social need
The need for self-recognition or group satisfaction
Self-esteem
The need for the realization of personal goal or ambition
Self-fulfillment need
Three kinds of business activity
Industry
Commerce
Services
Involve the conversion of raw materials into finished products or goods and the application of labor upon raw materials so that greater usefulness becomes possible after the process.
Industries
Three extractive industries:
Farming
Fishing
Mining
They use materials and supplies turned out by the extractive industries and change these raw materials into various articles of materials for further production of goods and new products
Manufacturing industries
Example of manufacturing companies:
Nokia Honda Sony San Miguel brewery Shell Pure foods
It involves the process of buying and selling where the goods are moved from the point of production to the point of consimption
Trading/Commerce
It involves purchasing and the actual investment of capital in the merchandise handled with the intention of reselling at a profit
Consumption
Examples of Commerce:
SM Rustan's Robinson's COD National Bookstore Webster
They are primarily concerned with the satisfaction of the needs and wants of the consumers
Service enterprise
Subdivided of service enterprise
Public and community services
Professional or trade services
Examples of the public and community services:
MERALCO
Motion picture producers
Newspaper publishers
Transportation companies
They are businesses which capitalize on personal skill and talent for rendering services
Professional service
Payment for professional or trade service in the form of fees which are sometimes called:
Retainer’s fee
Examples of professional or trade service:
Law offices Brokers CPA Management consultants Commission agents Repair shops Building contractors
Broadly speaking, services may also be subdivided into:
Recreation services
Personal services
Example of recreation services:
TV stations
Movie productions
Theaters
Personal services:
Hotels
Restaurants
Schools
Beauty parlors
Many ______convert local raw materials to finished products. These businesses are called _____
small scale entrepreneurs
Cottage industries