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Economics & Business vocab

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Business   Activity that involves making goods or providing services in exchange for money  
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Economics   Study of how people and society choose to use limited resources to satisfy their needs and wants  
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Consumer   A person who purchases goods and services for personal use  
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Cost Benefit Analysis   Estimating what will need to be paid (costs) and possible benefits that will arise from a business proposal  
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Interest   The cost of borrowing money from a bank; a person has to pay the bank interest on top of the original amount borrowed from the bank  
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Investing   Putting money into shares, property or other financial schemes in the hope of making a profit  
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Market   The place where buyers and sellers interact to exchange money for goods and services  
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Opportunity Cost   The cost of the next best alternative use of resources  
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Producers   People or businesses who make and sell goods and services for a profit  
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Sole Trader   A business owned and operated by one person  
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Franchise   A business that uses the name, products and services of an existing business (franchisor), in return for franchise fees and a portion of the profits.  
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Partnership   A form of business ownership in which the business is owned by two or more persons.  
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Company   Businesses that are considered separate legal entities to their owners. Also known as corporations.  
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Cooperative   A business that is owned by the members it serves and is managed in their interest.  
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Asset   Anything of value that is owned  
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Debt   Money owed  
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Profit   The amount of money earned by a business after all costs and expenses have been paid.  
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Location   (Marketing). The place where a firm decides to locate its operations and sell its products.  
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Target market   A set of buyers sharing common needs or characteristics that a business seeks to sell their good or service to.  
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Demographics   Characteristics of a group of people such as age, gender, income, location, education, and religion.  
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Competition   The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars  
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Social Responsibility   The duty of business to contribute to the well-being of society  
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Competition and Consumer Act (2010)   States what rights and responsibilities consumers have.  
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission   (ACCC). Makes decisions and provides guidance on issues that affect markets across Australia.  
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Product Safety Recall   When a product is faulty or dangerous and a business must notify consumers and organise for all of those products to be returned to the business  
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Employer   A business who hires workers or staff to produce goods and services for them  
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Employee   A person hired and working for another person or a business for payment.  
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Manufacturer   A business that produces a good and sells it to retail businesses. For example: Nike is a manufacturer of sportswear while Rebel Sport is a retail business that sells Nike and other brands' products to customers  
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Law of Demand   When prices rise, the quantity demanded by consumers decreases and when prices fall, the quantity demanded increases  
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Law of Supply   the higher the price of a product, the higher the quantity that suppliers will want to produce and sell.  
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Good   a tangible (physical) item, commodity or material that is produced  
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Service   Any intangible (non-physical) activity that fulfills a human want or need in return for money to those who provide it.  
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Allocation   how we distribute scarce resources among producers  
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Interdependence   the way participants in an economy (such as individuals, businesses and governments) rely on each other to provide or trade the goods and services they cannot produced themselves  
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Markets   the exchange of resources (or goods and services) among buyers and sellers are done in these  
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Scarcity   is the economic problem of having unlimited needs and wants, but limited resources available.  
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Promotion   Communication by marketers that informs, persuades, and reminds potential buyers of a product in order to influence an opinion or elicit a response  
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Labour Market   Where workers sell their skills, knowledge and effort to employers. In return for their labour, the employer will pay the workers a wage.  
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Housing Market   Where houses are bought and sold.  
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Stock Market   Where shares in public Australian companies are bought and sold. Also known as the Sharemarket  
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Foreign Exchange Market   The largest market in the world, where different currencies from around the world are bought and sold.  
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