Marketing Fundamentals: Key Concepts

1. Differentiating Factor?

Supporting a design to surpass others, influencing consumer choice economically, practically, or psychologically.

2. Objective Market Research

Analyzing market response to a product.

3. Purpose of Business

Facilitating exchanges between buyers and sellers.

4. Supply and Demand

Bid is the seller’s offering at a specific price. Demand is the buyer’s willingness at a fixed price. Exchange occurs at the balance point.

5. Marketing Defined

Human activity satisfying needs and wants through

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Budget Management: Planning, Control, and Investment Strategies

Juan Acosta

UNIT I

Overview

An introduction to accounting for management control, the information system that facilitates decision-making within the company.

Advantages and Limitations of Budgetary Control

ADVANTAGES:

  1. Deepen planning.
  2. Improve organization.
  3. Promote coordination.
  4. Facilitate decision-making.
  5. Allow full control.
  6. Seek profit.

LIMITATIONS:

  1. It is a forecast.
  2. It is rigid.
  3. It is restrictive.
  4. It is only a means.

Forecasting and Control Definitions

Forecast: anticipate, to see, know in advance. This definition

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Understanding Production: Economic Perspectives & Business Operations

Economic Perspectives on Production

Production is the process of combining resources to create goods and services that meet societal demands, aiming for profit. There are three main perspectives:

  • Economic: Focuses on meeting needs through the use of production factors.
  • Functional-Utilitarian: Views production as adding value and utility.
  • Technical: Emphasizes the combination of resources and technology to create products.

Efficiency in Production

Efficiency involves using the least amount of resources

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International Trade Concepts: Theories and Practices

Item 12: International Trade

Trade is the international or global exchange of goods, products, and services between two countries (an exporter and an importer). Foreign trade is the exchange of goods and services between economic regions, such as the EU and America. Economies participating in foreign trade are open economies. This process of external liberalization began in the second half of the twentieth century, notably in the 90s.

Theory of Absolute Advantage

Proposed by Adam Smith (1723-1790),

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Banking Products and Services Explained

Banking Products and Services

Current Accounts

A current account is a cash deposit contract between a lender and a customer. The customer deposits money in a bank, and the bank holds the customer’s money, paying a low interest rate. The customer can access the money at any time.

Features of Current Accounts:

  • High liquidity: Customers can access their money at any time.
  • Access via checks or promissory notes.
  • Variety of services offered.
  • Low interest paid to the customer.
  • No passbook or physical record of
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Understanding Stock Market Transactions and Valuation

What is a Paid Share Issuance?

A paid share issuance is a capital increase where existing shareholders can buy a portion of the new shares in exchange for a cash payment (subscription value). For example, if a shareholder owns 100 shares and the company issues new shares at a 1:1 ratio with a subscription value of $5 each, the shareholder can subscribe to 100 new shares for a total of $500. They would then own 200 shares.

What is the Subscription Value of a Share?

The subscription value is the price

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