Business - purpose of a business

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What are the reasons to start a business?
To produce a good, to produce a service, to fill a gap in the market.
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What are goods?
Tangible products that can be used and stored.
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What are services?
Intangible products that cannot be stored
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What are wants?
Things that people would like to have but they can live without it.
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What are needs?
Needs are things that are required in order to survive.
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What are the four factors of production?
Land,labour,capital, and enterprise
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What is Land?
The physical land where the business is located and the natural resources that they might need.
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What is labour?
The staff needed by the business
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what is capital?
The machinery and equipment needed by the business in order to produce and sell the good to the customers.
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What is enterprise?
The entrepreneur that takes the risk to start up a business using the other three factors of production.
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What is opportunity cost?
Something that is given up in order to do something else.
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What is the primary sector ?
The sector of the business that produces or extracts raw materials
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what is the secondary sector ?
The sector that makes or manufactures goods.
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What is tertiary sector?
The sector that provides services.
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What are the business functions?
human resources, operations, marketing and finance
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What are the characteristics of an entrepreneur?
Hardworking, organised, innovative.
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what are the objectives of an entrepreneur?
to be their own boss, to earn income, To have flexibility working hours .
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What are goods?

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Tangible products that can be used and stored.

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What are services?

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What are wants?

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What are needs?

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