business

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what are assets?
anything of value that can be made to yield benefits
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what si a bank loan?
a fixed sum of money borrowed from a bank and repaid with regularly monthly repayments plua interest rates
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what is the bank of england?
central bank of the uk - responsible for regulation
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what are banks?
a channel fund from savers to borrowers
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what is a brand?
the name or symbol that is closely linked with a product or service
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what are cashfow forcasts?
projected expected cash flows of cash income and expenditure per month
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what is competition?
it causes businesses to strive for improvements that will allow them to increase sales
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what is competitive pricing?
a priceing strategy that consists of matching your competitors pricing or slightly undercutting them
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what are complements?
goods or services that are brought together
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what is a creditor?
a person or company that the business owes money to
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what is the demand curve ?
geographical reputation of the relationship between price and quantity
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what is entry?
refers to the way profit in growing markets attracts businesses to produce for it
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what is equilibrium price?
the price at which quantity demanded is the same a quanitity supplied
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what is exit?
closing down production
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what are exports?
good and services produced domestically and sold in a foreign market
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what is gross domestic product(GDP)?
a measure of the total value of all goods and services produced
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what is government expenditure?
the money spent in the economy over a period of time
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what is gross profit?
turnover minus cost of sales
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what are imports?
goods and services bought by buyers in one country from sellers in another
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what are inferior goods?
sell better when incomes are falling
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what is limited liability?
the responsibility for any outstanding debts is limited to owners initial investment
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what is a market?
any medium in which buyers and seller interact and agree to trade
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what is market clearing?
it means there is no excess supply and no excess demand
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what is market growrh?
it is an expansion of thr market based on increased sales
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what is market oreintation?
where the needs of the customer are the priority in the production process
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what is market segmentation?
the splitting up of the market into different groups of consumers.
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what is market share?
the percentage of the total market buying one firms product
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what is mass market?
a large market which includes the majority of relevany population
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what is operating profit margin?
operating profit shown as a percentage of the turnover
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what is oppertunity cost?
represenst the cost in terms of an alternative to item actively chosen
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what si overdraft?
a facility that allows a business to borrow up to an agreed limit
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what is orginal share capital?
money raised by selling the ordinary share of plcs
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what is a PLC?
pubpic limited company - limitied liability - shares are available to te public
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what is the private sector?
part of the economy which is run for private profit
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whta is profit signalling mechanism?
the incentive profit induces a business to produce what customers want
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what is satisficing?
when a business earns enough to keep its owners happy
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what is structural change?
when patterns of demand change - some firms grwo while others sink
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what is atrade off?
having more of one thing and less of another
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what is venture capital?
a form of business finance - provided by individuals in return for a portion of the companys shares.
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