This is a blueprint for action based on sales, costs, and productivity estimates.
What is a budget?
What is cash?
According to Adam Smith, the purpose of produciton is to serve the ____.
What is the consumer?
The firm’s mission statement identifies:
What is the unmet customer need?
Long-term asset purchases often are called this.
What are capital expenditures?
This is a measurement of inflows and outflows of a business.
What is a cash flow?
This is the cause for the change in demand for a holiday item such as a Thanksgiving turkey.
What is seasonal preference?
What is a SWOT analysis?
The quantity of a good purchased is assocaiated with this basic economic principle and not merely consumer intentions to buy.
What is demand?
This is a legal right or claim to both used and protect an idea and/or invention.
What is a patent?
The change in a demand curve from one demand curve to a new demand is caused by _____.
What are demand shifters? (Know all of them!!!)
The operating budget begins with estimates from this ____ plan?
What is the marketing plan?
Market prices are determined by the interaction of these two factors ____.
What is supply and demand?
This mechanism is used to allocate scare resources.
What are free markets?
This analysis measures the business advantages and disadvantages both internally and externally.
What is a SWOT analysis?
What is elasticity?
This budget summarized expected sales, production, and profits.
What is an operating budget?

What is this known as?
What is an increase in demand?
This statement often contains certain goals and objectives of the business.
What is the mission statement?
This principle states that each additional unit of a good provides less added satisfaction than the previous one.
What is the law of diminishing marginal utility?
What is the name of these five forces?
1. The threat of new businesses entering your market
2. The threat of new products entering your market
3. The growing bargaining power of suppliers
4. The growing bargaining power of buyers
5. The level of rivalry among existing firms in the industry
What is Porter's Five Forces Model?
These expenses changes as operational output changes.
What are variable expenses?
What is a change in tastes and preferences?