Troy BUS 6600 Exam with accurate detailed answers
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Business - ✔✔any activity that seeks to provide goods and services to others while
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operating at a profit || || ||
business environment - ✔✔the surrounding factors that either help or hinder the
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development of businesses || ||
climate change - ✔✔a change in the planet's temperature over time
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database - ✔✔a collection of organized data that allows access, retrieval, and use of data
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Demography - ✔✔The scientific study of population characteristics.
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e-commerce - ✔✔the buying and selling of goods over the internet
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Entrepreneur - ✔✔A person who risks time and money to start and manage a business
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Empowerment - ✔✔giving employees the authority to correct a problem without first
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checking with management
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factors of production - ✔✔the resources that are used to create wealth
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goods - ✔✔Items purchased to satisfy needs and wants
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Greening - ✔✔the trend toward saving energy and producing products that cause less harm
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to the environment
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identity theft - ✔✔The forging of someone's identity for the purpose of fraud
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loss - ✔✔when a business's expenses are more than its revenues
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non-profit organization - ✔✔an organization whose goals do not include making a personal
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profit for its owners or organizers
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outsourcing - ✔✔Contracting with other companies (often in other countries) to do some or
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all of the functions of a firm, like its production or accounting tasks.
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productivity - ✔✔The value of a particular product compared to the amount of labor
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needed to make it. || || ||
profit - ✔✔The financial gain made in a transaction
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quality of life - ✔✔the standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an
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individual or group. || ||
revenue - ✔✔income || ||
risk - ✔✔Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of loss or
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reduced profit. ||
services - ✔✔intangible products|| || ||
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stakeholders - ✔✔All the people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a
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business and whose concerns the business needs to address.
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Standards of living - ✔✔the amount of goods and services people can buy with the money
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they have ||
business cycle - ✔✔periodic growth and contraction of the economy
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Capiltalism - ✔✔an economic system in which the factors of production and distribution are
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privately owned and operated for a profit
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command economy - ✔✔An economic system in which the government controls a country's
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economy.
Communism - ✔✔A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all
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property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to
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the state.
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) - ✔✔monthly statistics that measure the pace of inflation or
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deflation
core inflation - ✔✔CPI minus food and energy costs
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deflation - ✔✔A situation in which prices are declining
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demand - ✔✔Consumer willingness and ability to buy products
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depression - ✔✔A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment
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Disinflation - ✔✔a situation in which price increases are slowing (the inflation rate is
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declining)
Economics - ✔✔The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making
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choices
fiscal policy - ✔✔Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling
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taxing and spending.
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free market economy - ✔✔Capitalism, private ownership law of supply and demand
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - ✔✔A measurement of the total goods and services
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produced within a country.
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Gross Output (GO) - ✔✔A measure of total sales volume at all stages of production
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Inflation - ✔✔A general and progressive increase in prices
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invisible hand - ✔✔term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the
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marketplace
Keynesian economics - ✔✔Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes, stating
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that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during
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booms.
Macroeconomics - ✔✔The study of the economy as a whole || || || || || || || || ||