BUS 210 Week 1 DQ Business Models and Systems Knowledge Check

BUS 210 Week 1 DQ Business Models and Systems    Knowledge Check
BUS 210 Week 1 DQ1
Post your response to the following: What makes some companies more profitable than others? What are the similarities and differences between profit and profitability? Provide real-world examples to support your answer.
BUS 210 Week 1  DQ 2
Post your response to the following: Your friend has asked you why the price of bananas is higher during certain times of the year. Using what you have learned about the laws of supply and demand, explain to your friend how the market affects price.
Respond to your classmates' answers by asking additional questions that a newcomer to business might ask. Is the explanation clear? Which areas do you understand? In which areas would you like more clarification?
BUS 210 Week 1 Checkpoint Business Models and Systems
Consider a local business whose services you frequently use. What are the main components of this company's business model?
Write a 200- to 300-word response describing the three components of the business system that comprise the local business you selected. Use Figure 1.2 on p. 11 of Introduction to Business as a reference.
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BUS 210 Week 1 Knowledge Check
1) What are the component that makeup a business system?
2) Which terms refers to the total money or assets of a business?
3) Information Technology, e-commerce, human resource management, and procurement
are included in what type of value chain function in a business?
4) Which of the following best describes a system through which goods or services are exchanged for capital with aim of making a profit?
5) Capital, land , enterprise, and labor are all costs associated with making and selling goods. What do they determine?
6) Enterprise, as a main component of business, requires which of the following?
7) In economics, What principle indicates the value placed on a product lessens as consumption increases?
8) This is the point at which the supply of the product just meets the demand for it
9) What law shows that there is a direct relationship between the price of a product and the amount that is supplied in the market?
10) What law refers to the tendency of people to buy more of a product when the price is lower and less of it when its price is higher?
11) In general, the more a particular product is valued, the more it is demanded, which is true in regard to this statement?
12) What will most likely increase the demand for better quality goods ans services?
13) What is defined as the absolute monetary difference between sales revenues and operating costs?
14) What equation correctly shows how profit is calculated?
15) If a company were to have a total sales revenue of $50 and a total operating cost of $37, what is the total profit?
16) What measures how efficient a company uses its capital and resourcr to generate returns for its investors?
17) Which equation correctly shows how to calculate profitability?
18) Imagine company A has a total profit of $40 million and that it invested $400 million in the course of a year. Company B has a total profit of $20 million and has invested $80 million over the course of the year. Which company has the greater profitability?
19) What defines a group of companies that have similar products and business activities?
20) How does specialization assist a business in becoming more productive?
21) What are the four productive resources that make a business possible?