INTRO TO BUSINESS UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A
PLUS
● Entrepreneur: Answer: takes risks to start/manage a business
● Revenue vs. Profit vs. Loss: Answer: Revenue: total income from
sales.
Profit: revenue - expenses.
Loss: when expenses > revenue.
● Standard of living: Answer: goods/services people can afford.
● Quality of life: Answer: well-being (freedom, safety, health).
● Stakeholders: Answer: all affected by business decisions.
● Outsourcing vs. Insourcing: Answer: shifting tasks abroad vs.
Bringing them back.
● Factors of production: Answer: land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship,
knowledge.
, ● Business environment: Answer: Economic/legal
Technological
Competitive
Social
Global
● Capitalism (free market): Answer: :Private ownership/ Four rights:
property, profit, competition, choice
● Socialism: Answer: High taxes, government controls key industries/
Pros: equality, free education/healthcare/ Cons: less innovation, "brain
drain"
● Communism: Answer: Gov't controls all/ Often leads to shortages and
low innovation
● Invisible hand (Adam Smith): Answer: self-interest = economic
benefit for all.
● Supply/demand: Answer: determines prices in the free market.
● Market price: Answer: where supply = demand.
PLUS
● Entrepreneur: Answer: takes risks to start/manage a business
● Revenue vs. Profit vs. Loss: Answer: Revenue: total income from
sales.
Profit: revenue - expenses.
Loss: when expenses > revenue.
● Standard of living: Answer: goods/services people can afford.
● Quality of life: Answer: well-being (freedom, safety, health).
● Stakeholders: Answer: all affected by business decisions.
● Outsourcing vs. Insourcing: Answer: shifting tasks abroad vs.
Bringing them back.
● Factors of production: Answer: land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship,
knowledge.
, ● Business environment: Answer: Economic/legal
Technological
Competitive
Social
Global
● Capitalism (free market): Answer: :Private ownership/ Four rights:
property, profit, competition, choice
● Socialism: Answer: High taxes, government controls key industries/
Pros: equality, free education/healthcare/ Cons: less innovation, "brain
drain"
● Communism: Answer: Gov't controls all/ Often leads to shortages and
low innovation
● Invisible hand (Adam Smith): Answer: self-interest = economic
benefit for all.
● Supply/demand: Answer: determines prices in the free market.
● Market price: Answer: where supply = demand.