Business structures
Business structures #2
General Knowledge
Business ownership
Vocabulary
100

What do you call a business owned and operated by one person.

Sole trader

100

What type of Business has Limited Liability?

A private and/or public Company

100

A person who takes risks and starts a business not necessarily to make a profit.

An entrepreneur

100

A person who legally owns part of a public business entity

A shareholder

100

Are Opportunities and Threats related to the internal or external business environment?

External

200

What do you call a business in which the owners share profits and losses equally.

Partnership

200

What does Pty Ltd stand for?

Propriety Limited

200

Something that businesses are always searching for or must take advantage of.

Competitive Advantage

200

When owners of a business can be held personally liable.

Unlimited liability

200

What is a key advantage to being a Sole Trader?

Freedom and Independence.

Keeps all the profit.

Makes all the decisions.

300

What do you call a business viewed as a separate legal entity.

A company

300

What is an example in Australia of an oligopoly?

Coles/woolworths, Australian banks, Telecommunications companies

300

Are Strengths and Weaknesses concerned with the internal or external environment of the business?

Internal

300

When investors are not personally liable for business debts.

Limited liability

300

What is an entrepreneur with corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Someone who starts a business with the aim or solving social problems or effecting social change.

400

What is an example of a differentiation strategy?

Product, Service or Quality

400

What is an example in Australia of a monopoly?

Australia Post

400

What term is used to describe a businesses ability to have control over a particular market?

Market Power

400

What is the name given to a business which is listed on the sharemarket?

Public company

400

Name 3 ways a business can innovate.

Product, Process and Business model

500

What are 2 ways a business can gain a competitive advantage?

Changing Costs and Differentiating their product.

500

What is the name of an international fast food franchise founded by an individual with a military designation.

KFC

500

Do Sole Traders and Partnerships have limited liability?

No

500

Business that is legally separate from its owners and has most of the legal rights of an actual person.

A company

500

Are risk taking and courage, attributes of an entrepreneur?

Yes

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