business101 chapters 1-8
What type of business organization generates the most total sales?
Corporation
Telecommunications equipment manufacturers in the United States sell their products to people who live in Canada. To Canadians, the telecommunications equipment is an export.
False
The major difference between a good and a service is how the producer uses the factors of production to create each.
False
The sole proprietorship is considered a legal entity; therefore, it is taxed separately from the owner.
False
The U.S. has one of the very few areas in the world where kaolin can be mined. Kaolin is a necessary ingredient in many products ranging from stomach medication to paper. The U.S.-produced kaolin is sold all over the world. Kaolin is a(n) _____ for the countries that purchase it.
Import
The United States buys copper from Chile's Escondido copper mine. The copper is used to make wiring for the U.S. telecommunications industry and for many other purposes. For the U.S., the copper is an example of a(n):
Import
The Blue Bird Bus Company in Georgia sells buses to the South African government. To South Africa, these buses are an example of:
Imports
_____ are products that are bought from one country for use in another just as the U.S. buys wood pulp and timber from Canada.
Imports
The tax that the United States imposes on imported carbon steel products is called a tariff.
True
Utilitarianism:
is difficult to implement because it is hard to tell how one decision will impact a large number of people
Another factor influencing business ethics is _____, or what is fair according to prevailing standards of society.
justice
The standard of living in any country is:
measured by the output of goods and services people can buy with the money they have
What is the primary difference between a good and a service?
A good is tangible, and a service is intangible.
Established small businesses are defined as companies that have been in business at least fifteen years and employ between 50 to 500 employees.
False
Ethical decision making begins in the marketing department.
False
Ethics training programs typically teach how to disguise unethical behavior and not how to avoid unethical behavior.
False
For partnerships to be legal, they must be established in writing.
False
Having a global vision simply means having a willingness to sell outside one's national borders if, and when, the opportunity arises.
False
If the company wants employees to take ethical training seriously, the training should not include games.
False
If the sole proprietorship acquires a legal business name, the owner then has limited liability.
False
In a limited partnership, all of the partners have limited liability.
False
Labor, as a factor of production, relates only to the production of manufactured goods; services are not included.
False
Multipreneurs are businesspeople who have tried a succession of entrepreneurial start-ups without finding an area in which they could be successful.
False
Not-for-profit organizations have the same goals as for-profit organizations.
False
Registration procedures for incorporation are uniform from state to state across the U.S.
False
Some global corporations are large enough to create major changes in the external environment.
False
The exchange rate is the interest rate that foreign banks receive when borrowing money from the United States.
False
The first step in starting your own business is the creation of a unique marketable idea.
False
The philosophy of utilitarianism is used to explain why restaurants, theaters, and hotels should make themselves handicapped accessible.
False
To be a useful code of ethics, the code should offer broad policies and procedures rather than detailed rules.
False
Which of the following is an advantage of sole proprietor ownership?
Freedom from government regulation
The difference between small business owners and entrepreneurs is that small business owners:
NOT are innovators NOT are accurately described by all of the above
When Allison Logue found out her children were allergic to corn, she started looking for sweets and starches that were corn-free and was dismayed to find very few such products on the market. As a result, she has started her own small business to produce and market corn-free desserts. It is a small market, and Logue plans to keep her business small. Logue is an example of a(n):
NOT interpreneur
When he read Chicken Soup From the Soul, Joe Farmer was struck by how many of the stories mentioned the scent of the islands. So Farmer created bottles filled with Hawaiian air and some scented essence beads. When customers shake the bottles up and open the lids, they're transported back to paradise. While many marketing experts did not think that consumers would buy bottles of air, Farmer has earned more than half a million dollars of sale during his first year of operation. Farmer was an example of a _____ entrepreneur.
Not risk-aversive
Which type of business organization experiences the least governmental regulation?
Sole proprietorship
How has terrorism affected global trade?
Terrorism has curtailed the liberal inflows of skilled and blue-collar workers.
A disadvantage of a partnership is that any partner may have to pay all of the debts of the company regardless of who incurred the debts.
True
An entrepreneur is a person who opens and manages his or her own business.
True
Business owners and managers have a great deal of control over the internal environment of business, which covers the day-to-day business decisions.
True
Corporate officers are elected by the board of directors?
True
Entrepreneurs are people with vision, drive, and creativity, who are willing to take the risk of starting and managing a business to make a profit.
True
Entrepreneurs typically are innovators who start companies to pursue their ideas for a new product or service.
True
Factors of production are common to all productive activities, regardless of the economic system.
True
Human rights include an individual's right to life, to freedom, and to the pursuit of happiness.
True
International trade-dependent jobs have grown at a rate three times the growth of U.S.-dependent jobs.
True
Many people consider knowledge to be a fifth factor of production.
True
Micropreneurs are entrepreneurs who start small and plan to stay small.
True
Mines in Colombia produce emeralds and sell them to jewelers in the United States. To Colombia miners, emeralds are an export.
True
More than half of small businesses have between one and four employees.
True
One of the disadvantages of the sole proprietorship is that the owner has unlimited liability.
True
People who combine natural resources, labor, and capital in a profitable venture are called entrepreneurs.
True
The difference in value between a country's imports and exports is called its balance of trade.
True
The distributive process by which the burdens and rewards that society has to offer are shared varies from society to society.
True
The most basic responsibility of all businesses is its economic responsibility.
True
The opposite of free trade is protectionism.
True
To be a useful code of ethics, the code should offer broad policies and procedures rather than detailed rules.
True
_____ is a philosophy that focuses on the consequences of an action to determine whether it is right or wrong. This philosophy holds that an action that affects the majority adversely is morally wrong.
Utilitarianism
Which of the following statements about utilitarianism is true?
Utilitarianism holds that an action that affects the majority adversely is morally wrong.
Which of the following statements about utilitarianism is true?
Utilitarianism is designed to create both winners and losers.
Which of the following businesses provides its customers with a service?
a law office
Which of the following is an example of a business?
all of the above
In the 21st century, we define justice as
an equitable distribution of the burdens and rewards that society has to offer
The difference between the small business owner and the entrepreneur is that the entrepreneur:
assumes the risk of the business
The _____ is defined as the difference in value of a country's exports and imports over a period of time.
balance of trade
Which of the following businesses provides its customers with a good?
bicycle manufacturer
When Art Baer read that Singapore would lift its ban on chewing gum, he thought to himself, "There has to be a market there." Baer, 26, knew if he was going to move beyond the daydreaming stage, he had to move fast. After investing $20,000 of his own money into developing a product he called Impress Gum, Baer quit his job, flew to Singapore, talked to the right people in the government, lined up a manufacturer, and hired a marketing firm to promote his gum, which fights tooth decay. Baer is an example of a(n) ______ entrepreneur.
classic
When Linda McAnem began Stirya, a New York-based computer services company, she ran it as a sole proprietorship. As the business grew, she realized that she did not want to be personally liable for the business's debts and wanted her business accounts to be separate from her personal accounts. Therefore, she should have:
incorporated Stirya
Paul Hyatt owns and operates DeepClean, a Florida-based company that cleans up mold and mildew in homes and businesses. As the sole proprietor of the business, he has unlimited liability, which means:
he is fully liable for all business debts
Canadian logging companies sell timber in the United States. To the U.S., the timber is a(n)_____, and for Canadians, the timber is a(n) _____.
import; export
Dissolving a partnership is easier than dissolving a sole proprietorship.
False
Entrepreneurs, as a general group, dislike risk taking.
False
Summer Dean was walking through the mall and found a gym bag lying on the ground. The decision Dean must make as to whether to keep the gym bag and its contents for herself or turn it into the mall's lost and found department involves:
Ethics
_____ is the set of moral standards for judging whether something is right or wrong.
Ethics
Botswana produces diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, and textiles, which it sells to the members of the European Union. To Botswana, the diamonds, copper, nickel, soda ash, meat, and textiles it produces are examples of:
Export
_____ are goods and services that are made in one country and sold to other countries.
Exports
A positive aspect of opening a small business is that it takes very little management skill because it is small.
False
According to the principle of absolute advantage, each country should specialize in the products that it can produce most readily and cheaply and trade those products for products that foreign countries can produce most readily and cheaply.
False
All businesses approach ethics the same way.
False
Armenia had a favorable balance of trade in 2018 when it exported $800 million in goods and services and imported $1.5 billion.
False
Articles of incorporation usually specify the life of a corporation as a certain number of predetermined years.
False
As a factor of production, capital includes money.
False
Andy Yocom saw prime advertising space on the flags on the golf course. He reasoned that any marketing messages would get prominent attention if they were placed on the flags since golfers focus on them when they take their shots. As a result Yocom used his own initiative and money to start Invision Golf Group Inc. Yocom is an example of a(n):
entrepreneur
Jon P. Farmer is the founder of Kolopua Hawaii LLC, a company that markets Pure Hawaiian Air. Bottles of Pure Hawaiian Air contain air that smells like the floral bouquet that greets tourists as they get off the plane in Hawaii. Retailing for about $5 apiece, the bottles are sold at gift shops in Hawaii, as well as to travel agents nationwide who give them to clients. As a(n) _____, Farmer's annual income exceeds $100,000 annually.
entrepreneur
The person who takes the risk of starting and managing a business to make a profit is called a(n):
entrepreneur
When Suzanne Pogell wanted to learn to sail, but she could find no one to teach her because men were the ones who sailed, and women were their crew. She finally convinced someone to teach her to sail, and after mastering sailing, she started an all-woman sailing school called Womanship. Pogell started small and plans to stay small. She would be correctly called a(n):
micropreneur
An entrepreneur is a person who _____ a business.
owns and operates
A company that has a global vision:
recognizes and reacts to international business opportunities
Of all forms of business ownership, corporations account for the largest share of both:
sales and profits
Jules Sylvester had always loved reptiles. When he was asked by a movie producer if he could locate some anaconda snakes for a movie, a business was born. Sylvester is the proud owner and operator of Reptile Rentals. The California-based business, which he started with no financial help from anyone, is often called on to provide "creepy, crawly" moments in the movies. Jules Sylvester is an example of a:
sole proprietorship
The form of business ownership that has the most difficulty in raising capital is the:
sole proprietorship
The form of business ownership that is easiest to dissolve is the:
sole proprietorship
The most common form of business organization is the:
sole proprietorship
The _____ of any country is measured by the output of goods and services people can buy with the money they have.
standard of living
Which of the following countries has a high standard of living?
the United States
Which of the following is NOT an example of a good that would be sold in a department store?
the advice of a wedding planner
Which of the following is the best example of a good?
the birthday candles you purchased to go on your sister's birthday cake
Which of the following is the best example of a service?
the pleasure you derive from seeing a good play
Criticism of South Africa's post-apartheid government contends that the new government has not extended liberties to its black majority population, but has instead concentrated on proving to a white minority that a black-run administration can govern a reasonably sophisticated economy and society. The belief that the new South African government is behaving unethically is an expression of the philosophy associated with:
utilitarianism
Mamma's Diner was a small restaurant that was a popular hangout for many Bedford College students, but because of the owner's inability to make the bathroom stalls handicapped accessible for the one wheel-chair student on campus, it was forced to close down. The belief that this it was morally wrong to deprive the majority of the people of this experience is an expression of the philosophy associated with:
utilitarianism