What is a business
Business entitities
Business Objectives & MNCs
Stakeholders
Growth and evolution
100

exist to satisfy the needs and wants of their customers by selling goods and services, usually in return for profit. 

What is a business?

100

This refers to any business organisation that is owned by its shareholders, who have limited liability. They comprise of privately held companies and publicly held companies.

What is a company?

100

An inspiring declaration of what an organization ultimately strives to be, or to achieve, in the distant future.

What is a vision statement?

100

Refers to differences in the varying needs, perspectives, and priorities of the numerous stakeholder groups of an organization.

What are stakeholder conflicts?

100

These are cost-saving benefits enjoyed by a business as it increases the size of its operations, i.e. lower average costs (the cost per unit).

What is a economies of scale?

200

The individuals who take risks in overseeing a business organization or business venture, usually in pursuit of profit.

What is an entrepreneur?

200

The people or organization that use the product

What is a consumer

200

This is an organization’s decisions and actions that impact society in a positive way.

What is CSR?

200

Directors, employees, managers, shareholders

What is an internal stakeholder?

200

A method of external growth that involves one company buying a majority stake in another company with the agreement and approval of the target company’s Board of Directors.

WHat is a acquisition

300

These are physical (tangible) products, such as cars, clothes, flowers, food, furniture, smartphones, and toys.

WHat are goods?

300

Businesses in this section of the economy are run and owned by the government in order to provide essential services for society as a whole, e.g., education and healthcare services.


What is a public sector?

300

A business that operates in two or more countries or is legally registered in more than one country.

What is a MNC

300

These are the firm’s rivals, which operate in the same industry and contest for the same customers.

What are competitors?
300

this takes place when an organization expands without the help of an external partner firm.

WHat is internal growth?
400

Busines activity involved with the extraction of naturl resources

What is a primary sector?

400

An organization which is owned by a single entrepreneur who has exclusive responsibility for the running of the business.

What is a sole trader

400

This is any nation that allows a multinational company to set up in its country.

What is a host natoin?

400

The ruling authority within a state or nation. interested in businesses complying with the laws of the country, such as employment legislation.

What is a government?

400

 occurs when a company buys a controlling interest in another firm without the prior agreement or approval of the target company’s Board of Directors.

What is a takeover?

500

The numerical difference between the cost of factor inputs in the production process and the price that the final output is sold for.

What is value added?

500

This legal status of a business enables its shareholders (business owners) not to be liable for more than the original amount of money invested in the business.

What is limited liability

500

These are moral guidelines or codes of practice which govern good organizational behaviour.

What are ethics

500

institutions and individual investors who provide source of finance for businesses. They are interested in the organization’s ability to generate profits and to repay debts.

What are financiers?

500

A growth method that involves two parties, with the franchisor giving the licensing rights to a franchisee to sell goods and services using the franchisor’s brands and products.

What is a franchising?

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