Intro to Business- Test 1

My teacher Henry Halon gave these specific words to study.

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Managerial ethics
Standards of behavior that guide individual managers in their work
Business cycle
Short term pattern of economic expansions and contractions pg19)
Globalization
Process by which the world economy is becoming a single interdependent system
Demand
The willingness and ability of buyers to purchase a good or service
Entrepreneurship
The process of seeing businesses opportunities under conditions of risk
Export
Product made or grown domestically but shipped and sold abroad
Supply curve
Graph showing how many units of a product will be supplied (offered for sale) at different prices
Tariff
Tax levied on imported products
Consumerism
Form of social activism dedicated to protecting the rights of consumers in their dealings with businesses
Corporations
Business that is legally considered an entity separate from it's owners and is liable for its own debts;
Allocation of resources
Finding the best way to use your resources
Demand curve
Graph showing how many units of a product will be demanded (bought) at different prices
Equilibrium point
Point at which the supply curve and demand curve meet
Monopoly
Market or industry in which there is only one producer which can thererfore set the prices of its products
Monetary policy
Management of the nations economic growth by managing the money supply and interest rates