Why is business considered as economic activity?
Business is considered an economic activity because it has got the following features:
1. Profit Motive: Business means production, purchase and sale of goods with profit motive. Earning profit for satisfying needs make the business an economic activity.
2. Business activities require use of scarce resources: To run business concern the owner must have adequate capital, raw materials and skilled workers. Business requires sufficient funds to be invested in it. All these activities involve monetary transactions. So business is an economic activity.
3. Satisfying human wants: business is a source of income for businessmen and their families. Business can, therefore, be regarded as an economic activity not only as a means of earning income by businessmen but also as a means of satisfying the wants of people.
What factors are to be considered while starting a business? Explain.
Discuss the development of indigenous banking system in Indian subcontinent.
What were the different types of Hundi in use by traders in ancient times?
Define Industry. Explain various types of industries giving examples.
Define business. Describe its important characteristics.
List the major exports and imports in ancient India.
State the different types of economic activities.
Evaluate the need for outsourcing and discuss its limitations.
Discuss the limitations of electronic mode of doing business. Are these limitations severe enough to restrict its scope? Give reasons for your answer.
Define services and goods.
What factors are to be considered while starting a business? Explain.
Explain any five objectives of business.
What do you understand by maritime trade?
1. A government company is any company in which the paid up capital held by the government is not less than
(a) 49 per cent (b) 51 per cent
(c) 50 per cent (d) 25 per cent
2. Centralised control in MNC’s implies control exercised by
(a) Branches (b) Subsidiaries
(c) Headquarters (d) Parliament
3. PSE’s are organisations owned by
(a) Joint Hindu family (b) Government
(c) Foreign Companies (d) Private entrepreneurs
4. Reconstruction of sick public sector units is taken up by
(a) MOFA (b) MoU
(c) BIFR (d) NRF
5. Disinvestments of PSE’s implies
(a) Sale of equity shares to (b) Closing down private sector/public operations
(c) Investing in new areas (d) Buying shares PSE’s
6. The equity-based joint venture does not include
(a) Cooperative development (b) Company
(c) Partnership (d) Limited liability partnership
Define services and goods.
Describe various types of insurance and examine the nature of risks protected by each type of insurance.
What were the different types of Hundi in use by traders in ancient times?
Explain the functions of commercial banks with an example of each.
Define Industry. Explain various types of industries giving examples.
What is e-banking. What are the advantages of e-banking?