1.1 the purpose and nature of business definitions

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what is a consumer?
someone who uses a product
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what is a customer?
someone who buys a product
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what is a good?
a physical product
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what is a product?
a general term for goods and services
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what is a service?
an intangible product (i.e one that cant be touched)
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what is an entrepreneur ?
someone who is willing to take the risks involved in starting a business
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what is an entrepreneurship?
refers to the ability to be an entrepreneur- to take risks to develop a business idea
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what is profit?
it measures the difference between value of a business's revenue(from sales) and its total costs`
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what is a social enterprise
a business that is set up to help society rather than to make profit
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what are resources?
the inputs that businesses use to provide their goods or services
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what is interest?
the money paid by banks as a reward to attract people to save with them
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what is opportunity cost?
its what is given up as a consequence of a particular decision
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what is the exchange rate?
the price of one currency expressed in terms of another
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what is gross domestic product (GDP)
measures all the income
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what is inflation?
the rate at which prices are increasing.
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what is interest rate?
the cost of borrowing money or the reward for saving money expressed as a percentage
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