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Capitalism is founded on
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The belief that competition among business firms best serves the needs of society
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The right to proit means the
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Risk taker is guaranteed the right to all profits (after taxes) that are earned by the business
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In accounting the terms, profits are
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The differenece between revenues and expenses
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Which of the following statements is NOT correct
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Workers change jobs less frequently today
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In his book The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish economist Adam Smith was the first person to describe
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Capitalism
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When Google opened offices in Tokyo, London, and Sydney, they were utilizing ______ by relocating business activities to lower cost locations oversease
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Offshoring
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Which of the following is considered to be the most fundamental right of the private enterprise system
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The right to private property
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The concept of branding first emerged during the
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Marketing Era
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Restating issues in reverse,such as naming ways to lose customers, is a method of developing______
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Critical Thinking
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Technology has resulted in all of the following EXCEPT_______
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Less business efficiency
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The Industrial Revolution in England transformed America's economy by introducing
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The factory System
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All of the following are rights granted to citizens and to the government in a private enterprise system EXCEPT the right to
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Permit price discrimination
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The human resources of a firm refer to
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Everyone who works for the business
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Which of the following is NOT an example of an internal force that requires organizational change
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New Technology
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Businesses have responsibilities to
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Investors, customers, employees and society
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_______ requires that firms in the private sector provide procedures for anonymous reporting of accusation of fraud
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Individuals who focus only on their own interests when making decisions are at the __ stage of ethical development
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Preconventional
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Businesses should ____
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find the balance between doing what is right and what is profitable
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When Target donates 5 percent of its federally taxable income to nonprofit gr0up, the company is highlighting its ____
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Social responsibility
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How should a businessperson deal with a conflict of interest
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disclose it or avoid it
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Bob takes responsibility for an error made by his assistant on a project, Bob has shown ___
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Which of the following statements best justifies why a company should act in an ethical manner
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The government will take action if a firm fails to act ethically
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When an individual moves beyond his or her own needs and desires and takes the needs of society into consideration when making decision
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Postconventional
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All of the following groups are specifically identified by federal equal employment opportunity laws EXCEPT
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obese perseon
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All of the following are examples of corporate philanthropy EXCEPT
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paying local property taxes
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Linda does not make personal long-distant phone calls at work because it will cost her employer money.What stage of ethical development is Linda in
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Conventional
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Consumer Rights include all of the following EXCEPT the right to
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boycott
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Businesses exercise social responsibilIty for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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guaranteed of profit
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Benito worked a manager at a grocery chain that recently experienced a number of layoffs due to an economic slow time. Benito's employment would be described as a
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Cynical
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A shortage will occur when ____
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price is below the equilibrium point
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As the number of suppliers of a product increases, the supply curve shifts to the ___ and the price will
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Right, fall
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The equilibrium price is established when the quantity________
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Purchased is equal to the quantity offered
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Which type f the unemployment typically lasts the longest?
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Structural
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In a ____ system, the government owns all of the nations major industries but still allows private ownership in less crucial areas
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Socialism
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The part of the federal government responsible for the monetary policy is ___
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The federal Reserve System
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An increase in consumers' incomes causes the
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Demand curve to shift to the right
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Assume the price of gasoline triples, What will likely happen to the demand for small cars? The demand curves will shift
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to the left and and decrease
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The sum of all goods and services produced within a nation's boundaries each year is the
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gross domestic product
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Incentives to motivate employees to perform at their highest level are strongest in ___ system
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Capitalist
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If the prices of substitutes goods decrease, the demand curve will to
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shift to the right and
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In general as price of a good or service increases, the quantity demanded
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Will decrease
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Business borrowing becomes more difficult when
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The federal reserved decrease money suppy
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A demand curve will shift to the left if the
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buyers income decrease
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___ is a commonly used measure of productivity
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GDP
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The federal reserve reduces the amount of money bank can lend, as a result, interest rate will ___ and economic growth will __
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Increase and fall
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The federal reserve slows the growth in the supply of money and credit. Interest rate will ____ which is an example of ____ policy
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Rise and Monetary
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a particular industry has only a few competitors, who have a least some control over price, Entry into the industry is difficult, This industry is an example of
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An Oligopoly
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Economists refer to a nation's ___ as an indicator of its economic health
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unemployment
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In a particular country, the government owns all the transportation companies, the utilities, the energy suppliers and major firm
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socialism
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Monetary policy
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Is of limited use in controlling inflation
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if the market price is above the equilibrium price,____
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a surplus will occur and prices and production will fall
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a supply curve is a
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upward sloping curve
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