Chapter 01 Taking Risks and Making Profits within the Dynamic Business

TEST PLANNING TABLE FOR CHAPTER 1

Learning Goal

LL:1

Knows Basic Terms and Facts

LL:2

Understands Concepts and Principles

LL:3

Applies Principles

1. Describe the relationship between profit and risk and show how businesses and nonprofit organizations can raise the standard of living for all.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,

11,12,13,14,15,16,17

18,19,20,21,22,23,24,

176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185,186,187

25,26,27,28,29,30,31,

32,33,

188,189,190,191,192,193,194,195,196,197

34,35,36,37,38,39,

40,41,42,43,

198,199,200,201,

202,203,204,

221, 326, 330

2. Compare and contrast being an entrepreneur and working for others.

44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,

205,206,207,208,

209,210,211,212

57,58,59,

213,214,215,216,217,

218

60,61,62,

219,220,222,

223,224~,

3. Analyze the affect of the economic environment and taxes on businesses.

56,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,

225,226,227,228,229,230

73,74,

231,232,233,234

75,76,

235,236,237,238~,

320,

329*

4. Describe the effect of technology on business.

77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,

91,92,93,94,

239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252

95,96,97,98,

253,254,255

99,100,101,102,103,104,

256,257,258,259,

260,261,262,263,

321

5. Demonstrate how businesses can meet and beat competition.

105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,

264,265,266,267

114,115,116,

268,269,270

117,118,

271,272,273,274,

322,

327*

6. Analyze the social changes affecting business.

119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,

275,276,277,278,279,280,281,282,283

131,132,133,134,135,137

284,285,286,287

136,138,

288,289,290,

323,

328*

7. Identify what businesses must do to meet the global challenge, which includes war and terrorism.

139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150, 291,292,293,294,295,296,

151,152,153,154,

297,298,299,300,

155,156,157,158,

301,302,303,304,305,324,

8. Review how past trends are being repeated in the present and what those trends will mean for tomorrow’s college graduate.

159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,

306,307,308,309,310,311,312

171,172,173,

313,314,315

174,175,

316,317,318,319,

325

Total number of test items: 330

True/false questions are in plain text.

Multiple choicequestions are in bold text.

Questions on boxed material are in bold text with a tilde~.

Essayquestions are in bold underlined text.

Minicase questions are in bold with an asterisk*.

True / False Questions

1. Businesses provide goods, jobs, and services to others.
True False

2. Businesses seek to earn a profit by providing goods and services to others.
True False

3. Revenue is the amount a business earns above and beyond what it spends for expenses and costs.
True False

4. Profit is the amount of money a business earns above and beyond what it spends for salaries and other expenses.
True False

5. Since all businesses make a profit, starting a business is not risky.
True False

6. An entrepreneur risks time and money to start and manage a business.
True False

7. If a business’s costs and expenses are greater than its revenue, it will suffer a loss.
True False

8. Profits of a business include the salaries paid to its employees.
True False

9. Revenue is the total amount of money a business takes in during a given period by selling goods and services.
True False

10. Risk is the chance an entrepreneur takes of losing time and money on a business that may not prove profitable.
True False

11. The United States has one of the highest standards of living in the world.
True False

12. The term “standard of living” refers to the amount of debt people can incur on a given income.
True False

13. Health care availability, a clean environment, and good schools all contribute to a high quality of life.
True False

14. Maintaining a high quality of life requires the combined efforts of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.
True False

15. Stakeholders are all the people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business.
True False

16. Stakeholders include customers, employees, stockholders, suppliers, dealers, bankers, government officials and environmentalists.
True False

17. Often the needs of a firm’s various stakeholders will conflict.
True False

18. Outsourcing means selling goods and services to people in other countries.
True False

19. Outsourcing has caused many complications in many states where jobs have been lost to overseas companies.
True False

20. “Insourcing” refers to the practice of global companies setting up design and production facilities in the United States.
True False