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Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins
The use of patents and copyrights are ways that federal laws protect a business's:
Intellectual Property
Operating agreements
Product liability
Executive contacts
What types of businesses can be owned by thousands of stockholders?
Open corporations
General partnerships
Sole proprietorships
Close corporations
After only her seventh month in business, Martha realized that her new business venture was paying off, and she would be taking home a $1,000 profit for the month.
Finally, she could reap the financial rewards of being the boss. This is an advantage of what type of business ownership?
Corporation
Sole proprietorship
Partnership
Merger
A business can determine its net income by subtracting total:
A business can determine its net income by subtracting total:
Operating expenses from net worth
Expenses from gross margin
Liabilities from assets
What is the primary purpose of the accounting process in business?
Tracking
Buying
Evaluating
Determining
In business, the financial function monitors and controls the company's:
Monetary returns and risks
Management-information systems
Product development process
Supply channel members
An important function of human resources management in business is:
Social Media
Employee recruitment
Domain development
Capital investment
An important function of human resources management in business is:
Tony explains the company’s policies to a new employee during orientation
Kurt prepares a press release that he plans to distribute to the media
Ava speaks with a new vendor to establish sales terms and to place an order
Jennifer gathers sales information to develop a quarterly report for her supervisor
The increased use of computers and telecommunications equipment is fueling the trend in business that allows many employees to:
Preform routine tasks
Compete with coworkers
Participate in management
Work in various locations
As a result of conducting an environmental scan, a business might find that the rate of unemployment is slowly increasing, which is an example of a(n) __________ factor.
Economic
Geographic
Political
Regulatory
A firm’s environmental scan reveals that a country is on the brink of civil war, which would affect the firm’s ability to do business in the country. This is an example of a(n) __________ consideration.
Cultural
Economic
Political
Regulatory
Which of the following is a primary function of information management:
Monitoring Employees
Obtaining Credit
Placing adds
Storing data
What is an advantage to a company that effectively manages its business information?
Eliminates customer dissatisfaction
Saves time and money
Increases information overload
Reduces the need for compliance
The general role of marketing in our private enterprise system is to coordinate:
Finance and accounting
Oligopolies and monopolies
Government and business
Production and consumption
An advertising campaign would be part of the area of marketing known as:
Market planning
Pricing
Promotion
Channel management
Ford Motor Company purchased tires from one tire company to be put on all automobiles in its manufacturing plants. This is an example of __________ purchasing
Dispersed
Industrial
Retail
Speculative
Which of the following is necessary to the actual production of goods and services:
Fiscal control
Utility
Consumers
Capital resources
In production, the purpose of the conversion process is to:
Turn inputs into products
Convert old products into new ones
Control the costs of production
Find markets for the firms products
The operations function consists mainly of activities that are performed on a __________ basis.
Daily
Weekly
Yearly
Monthly
Which of the following includes the basic categories of resources that most businesses must manage:
Human resources, financial assets, economic resources, and material resources
Human resources, financial resources, material resources, and inform
Human resources, financial resources, material resources, and accounts receivable
Human resources, information, subordinates, and financial resources
What must managers be able to do if they want employees to understand the business’s goals and be productive?
Obtain Feedback
Ask questions
Communicate clearly
Listen carefully
Some natural resources are plentiful but are expensive and difficult to:
Sell
Conserve
Obtain
Use
“Economic votes” are cast by consumers each time they:
Respond to a survey
Visit a business
Make a purchase
Participate in market research
One characteristic of an economic service is that it is:
Tangible
Scarce
Impractical
Immobile
Natural and human resources are two categories of economic resources. The third category is
Salespeople
Capital goods
Money
Water
Combining steel, glass, and other raw materials into a vehicle is an example of __________ utility.
Place
Form
Time
Possession
Which of the following economic systems encourages competition in business:
Traditional
Communist command
Market
Socialist Command
Which of the following is a characteristic of a communist command economic system:
The government controls production and distribution
Business ownership and competition are encouraged.
Economic decisions are based on habits and customs.
Government plans production but considers supply and demand.
Natural monopolies are allowed to exist in the United States because they:
Benefit Society
Improve Competition
Control Production
Stabilize the Economy
Why are government regulations that control how businesses use natural resources developed?
To encourage workplace safety
To protect the environment
To stabilize the economy
To seize business property
Which of the following factors work together in private enterprise to determine prices:
Goods and services
Supply and Demand
Economic resources
Profit motives
A personal reason some individuals go into business for themselves is because it allows them to:
Serve the community
Join business organizations
Receive public recognition
Have a guaranteed income
One type of economic risk that a business usually experiences is:
Perishability
Management
Competition
Dishonesty
When businesses try to attract customers by offering high-quality products, extra customer services, and convenient locations, they are engaged in __________ competition.
Illegal
Nonprice
Unfair
Price
Areas of rapid growth in international trade include telecommunications, insurance, and tourism, which are examples of:
Trade missions
Manufactured goods
Services
Multinational companies
Which of the following is a reason why nations are dependent on other nations:
Unequal distribution of resources
Restrictions on foreign competition
Different standards of living
Unfavorable balance of payments
If a company’s leading product is popular nationwide and company officials decide to export it to other countries because they are sure that it will be just as popular there, which of the following are the officials doing:
Decreasing domestic supply
Making an assumption
Classifying a product
Considering cultural influence
The two main divisions of the trade industry are:
Manufacturers and wholesalers
Producers and retailers
Wholesalers and producers
Wholesalers and retailers
One major way businesses show their social responsibility is by:
Contributing to public interests.
Providing on-the-job training
Paying taxes to the federal government.
Offering employee discounts.
Strategic management is demonstrated in which of the following phrases:
Regularly updating business processes
Planning and organizing for the future
Obtaining funds for business projects
Recruiting appropriate employees
Which of the following has a direct impact on a manager’s span of control:
Channel of distribution
Allocation of funds
Popularity of products
Number of subordinates
An employee’s formal level of authority in a firm directly relates to his/her power to:
Formulate ideas
Identify problems
Make decisions
Apply knowledge
Managers who have a __________ span of control generally have __________ control over the workers they supervise.
Small, close
Broad, balanced
Large, a lot of
Limited, little
Of the following methods of entering a foreign market, which is the least risky:
Creating wholly owned subsidiaries
Establishing multinational firms
Exporting
Licensing
Which of the following is an example of a business involved in offshoring activities:
BVC Corporation and Tyrone Industries combine their resources to open a new company in Belgium.
DigiTech moves its production facility from Los Angeles, California to Jaipur, India to cut costs.
A German-based company operates offices in several countries including Japan, South Africa, and Australia.
Canadian-based Randall Enterprises purchases an existing firm that is located in Venezuela.
Which of the following affects the business environment because it provides the most options for consumers:
International sanctions
Command economy
Global competition
Monopoly
Which of the following is an example of unethical business behavior:
Persuading consumers
Giving consumers too much information
Misleading consumer
Monitoring employee email
One difference between business ethics and the law is that business ethics:
Are enforced by government.
Are easy to determine.
Must be published.
Are often unwritten
In order for the business to determine what resources it needs to effectively adapt to market changes, the business needs to assess its:
Strengths and weaknesses.
motivation levels.
compensation plan.
change leaders.
Wendy's sells the right to operate its restaurants to individuals who meet the company's criteria. The arrangement between Wendy's and these individuals is an example of
licensing
franchising
a partnership agreement
multi-level marketing
John, Robert, and Charles were college friends who wanted to start a business. John has creative ability, Robert's expertise is selling, and Charles' expertise is management. However, each has limited capital. The ideal business ownership for these young men is a
partnership
merger
franchise
corporation
Jake wanted to run his own business but was unsure that he had adequate business skills to be successful. Which type of business would give Jake the help he needs?
Product trade-name franchise
Sole proprietorship
Business-format franchise
Private corporation
What determines whether an economic product is an industrial product or a consumer product?
The origin of the product
Who produces the product
The price of the product
Who buys and uses the product
A characteristic of human wants is that they are
Limited
Unlimited
Unchanging
Consistent
Producers respond to consumers' positive economic votes by
increasing production.
decreasing production.
classifying their goods and services.
producing more industrial goods.
Businesses can show their social responsibility by contributing to
Promotion
Public interests
Private causes
Pollution
A socially responsible business will attempt to give customers
lower quality products at reduced prices.
the best products no matter what the cost.
the best products at the best prices.
high-quality products at high prices.
One way in which many businesses demonstrate their social responsibility toward employees is by providing them with
regular entertainment
free meals.
a stress-free atmosphere.
a safe working environment.
Which of the following is an example of an economic good:
Guitar lessons
Photo developing
Automobile
Medical exam
Using a stream to supply water to a field in order to grow crops is an example of using
Natural resources
Human resources
Capital resources
Nonrenewable resources
Which of the following occurs when the supply of individuals who are able and willing to work diminishes:
Human resources become unlimited
Capital goods become unlimited.
Capital goods become limited.
Human resources become limited.
Which of the following economic resources is responsible for combining the other resources to produce goods and services:
Human resources
Nonrenewable resources
Capital goods
Natural resources
Which one of the following groups of words best describes wants
Limited, unchanging, and competing
Limited, changing, and compensating
Unlimited, unchanging, and compensating
Unlimited, changing, and competing
In economics, the term capital goods includes
buildings and equipment.
mental and physical work.
trees and water.
labor and management.
What are the three basic economic questions?
Where will products be produced; when will products be produced; and what products will be produced?
When will products be produced; what products will be produced; and how will products be allocated?
What products will be produced; how will products be produced; and how will products be allocated?
When will products be produced; how will products be produced; and how will products be allocated?
To discover a product's level of utility, marketers measure the consumer's
Perspective
Attitude
Desire
Satisfaction
Changing a good's form involves which of the following:
Getting the good to the retailer
Making sure the good is available early
Adding a new feature to the good
Providing an easy way to buy the good
When marketers provide information about an available product, consumers are more likely to
put the product on layaway.
buy the product.
request a payment plan.
ask questions about the product.
Government owns the basic means of production but there is some private ownership of businesses under
capitalism
entrepreneurship
socialism
communism
Some natural resources are plentiful but are expensive and difficult to
Obtain
Use
Sell
Conserve
"Economic votes" are cast by consumers each time they
participate in market research.
visit a business.
make a purchase.
respond to a survey.
One characteristic of an economic service is that it is
Scarce
Tangible
Immobile
Impractical
Natural and human resources are two categories of economic resources. The third category is
water
salespeople
money
capital goods
Combining steel, glass, and other raw materials into a vehicle is an example of __________ utility.
place
possesion
form
time
Which of the following economic systems encourages competition in business:
Market
Traditional
Socialist Command
Communist Command
Which of the following is a characteristic of a communist command economic system:
Economic decisions are based on habits and customs.
Business ownership and competition are encouraged.
Government plans production but considers supply and demand.
The government controls production and distribution.
Natural monopolies are allowed to exist in the United States because they
control production.
benefit society.
improve competition.
stabilize the economy.
Why are government regulations that control how businesses use natural resources developed?
To protect the environment
To seize business property
To stabilize the economy
To encourage workplace safety
Which of the following factors work together in private enterprise to determine prices:
Profit motives
Economic resources
Goods and services
Supply and demand
A personal reason some individuals go into business for themselves is because it allows them to
have a guaranteed income.
join business organizations.
serve the community.
receive public recognition.
One type of economic risk that a business usually experience
perishability
dishonesty
competition
management
When businesses try to attract customers by offering high-quality products, extra customer services, and convenient locations, they are engaged in __________ competition.
Illegal
Price
Nonprice
Unfair
Areas of rapid growth in international trade include telecommunications, insurance, and tourism, which are examples of
Services
Multinational companies
Manufactured goods
Trade missions
Which of the following is a reason why nations are dependent on other nations:
Unfavorable balance of payments
Unequal distribution of resources
Restrictions on foreign competition
Different standards of living
If a company's leading product is popular nationwide and company officials decide to export it to other countries because they are sure that it will be just as popular there, which of the following are the officials doing:
Classifying a product
Decreasing domestic supply
Making an assumption
Considering a cultural influence
The two main divisions of the trade industry are
manufacturers and wholesalers.
wholesalers and retailers.
producers and retailers.
wholesalers and producers.
One major way businesses show their social responsibility is by
providing on-the-job training
contributing to public interests.
offering employee discounts.
paying taxes to the federal government
Strategic management is demonstrated in which of the following phrases:
Recruiting appropriate employees
Obtaining funds for business projects
Regularly updating business processes
Planning and organizing for the future
Which of the following has a direct impact on a manager's span of control:
Allocation of funds
Popularity of products
Number of subordinates
Channel of distribution
An employee's formal level of authority in a firm directly relates to his/her power to
identify problems
make decisions
formulate ideas
apply knowledge
Managers who have a __________ span of control generally have __________ control over the workers they supervise
small, close
limited, little
broad, balanced
large, a lot of
Of the following methods of entering a foreign market, which is the least risky:
Establishing multinational firms
Exporting
Creating widely owned subsidiaries
Licensing
Which of the following is an example of a business involved in offshoring activities:
A German-based company operates offices in several countries including Japan, South Africa, and Australia.
DigiTech moves its production facility from Los Angeles, California to Jaipur, India to cut costs.
BVC Corporation and Tyrone Industries combine their resources to open a new company in Belgium
Canadian-based Randall Enterprises purchases an existing firm that is located in Venezuela.
Which of the following affects the business environment because it provides the most options for consumers:
International sanctions
Monopoly
Global competition
Command economy
The business environment is affected by many factors, including the managers' attitudes within the company, which is an example of a(n) __________ factor.
intellectual
internal
innovative
external
Which of the following is an example of unethical business behavior:
Monitoring employee email
Giving consumers too much information
Persuading consumers
Misleading consumers
One difference between business ethics and the law is that business ethics
are often unwritten.
are enforced by government.
are easy to determine.
must be published.
In order for the business to determine what resources it needs to effectively adapt to market changes, the business needs to assess its
motivation levels.
change leaders.
compensation plan.
strengths and weaknesses.
