Becoming an Entrepreneur
Economic Systems
basic economic concepts
Supply and demand Theory
Business Cycles
100

An individual who undertakes the creation, organization, and ownership.

Entrepreneur

100

Money that is kept after all expenses of running a business. 

Profit

100

The resources businesses use to produce goods and services. 

Factors of Production

100

Quantity of goods or services that consumers are willing and able to buy. 

Demand

100

The periodic random pattern of expansion and contraction.

Business cycle
200

A new business undertaking that involves risk. 

venture

200

People have an important right to make economic choices. 

Free enterprise systems

200

Occurs when demand exceeds supply. 

Scarcity

200

Situation in which a change in price creates a changed in demand.

Elastic demand

200

Total market values of goods and services produced by a nation during a given period.

Gross Domestic product

300

Process of recognizing or creating an opportunity, testing in the market, and gathering the resources necessary to go into business. 

Entrepreneurship

300

The nature and degree of competition among businesses operating the same industry. 

Market structure 

300
Intangible ( non-physical) products.

Services

300

Situation in which aa change in price has very little effect on demand for product. 

Inelastic demand

400

Study of how people choose to allocate scarce resources to fulfill their unlimited wants.

Economic

400

A market structure in which there are just a few competing firms.

Oligopoly

400

A basic requirement for survival. 

Need

400

What's the difference between wants and needs? 

A need is requirement for survival and a want is something you do not have to have for survival.

500

A particular commodity has only one seller who has control over supply.

monopoly

500

Tangible (or physical) products.

Goods

500

Customers will not buy more than they can reasonably use. 

Diminishing marginal utility.

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