Lesson 1 BUSINESS AND ITS ENVIRONMENT NATURE OF BUSINESS Business may be understood as the organized efforts of enterprise to supply consumers with goods and services for a profit. Businesses vary in size‚ as measured by the number of employees or by sales volume. But‚ all businesses share the same purpose: to earn profits. The purpose of business goes beyond earning profit. There are: • It is an important institution in society. • Be it for the supply of goods and services • Creation of
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One of the dilemmas concerning our environment is saving wild life creatures. Cutting down trees is killing their habitat and ways of living. How would you like it if someone came into your neighbourhood and started bulldozing the houses down? Many living species have died because of the habitat changes they have to go through. Many oceans and other water bound areas in the world are being polluted by human waste. It’s killing all water creatures and making water unsanitary. If you really think about
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centuries. Similarly locating yourself in space requires an understanding of the concepts of distance‚ maps‚ and directions. Location in physical space is probably the first step in understanding your physical environment. This unit is going to focus on Map reading and other related concepts that help us to locate ourselves in physical space. A map is a graphic representation of a portion of the earth ’s surface drawn to scale‚ as seen
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Save environment I have a dream that one day we will live in safe ‚ clean environment . Environment where the advance technology and safe environment can co exist together . We must all remember that what ever we do to our environment‚ it will return back to us and to our future generation . Safe environment where nothing is wasted and every thing is being utilized to it’s full extent. I feel sorry to the beach and to the see where the people live as the days goes ‚ it’s being covered with
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World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972.[1] The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different
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ESSAY (Question n°4) For decades‚ humans use natural resources for their development. Today‚ we pay for this exploitation. Human lifestyle are responsible of many effects on environment: global warming‚ climate change‚ depletion of Ozone layer‚ deforestation‚ pollution‚ extinction of species… With depleting resources of nature‚ certain ways to save the environment have to be formulated. But who can do something to save the planet: people or
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Leaning Check 3. Humans have increased the carrying capacity of their environment by advancing and developing new technologies. Starting in the early 1700s‚ humans started to improve technology such as medicine‚ food‚ shelter and weapons. Medicine allowed patients with before-fatal illnesses to be treated or agricultural development allowed the capacity and quality of food to sustain. All changes and improvements made enabled humans to increase carrying capacity of their environment. 4. I would predict
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‘Business’ and Its ‘Environment’ Introduction Every business organization has to interact and transact with its „environment‟. The effectiveness of interaction of an enterprise with its environment primarily determines the success or failure of a business. The environment imposes several „constraints‟ on an enterprise and has a considerable impact and influence on the scope and direction of its activities. The enterprise‚ on the other hand‚ has very little control over its environment. The business
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Chapter 1 Business Environment Q 1. Ans. What is Business Environment? The term Business Environment is composed of two words ‗Business‘ and ‗Environment‘. In simple terms‚ the state in which a person remains busy is known as Business. The word Business in its economic sense means human activities like production‚ extraction or purchase or sales of goods that are performed for earning profits. Q 2. Ans. Define Business Environment. The elements or factors outside a business organization
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Columbian Exchange: Chocolate (Interaction between humans and the environment) Chocolate orginated in central and South America from the cacao tree (pronounced "ka-kow"). The earliest use and cultivation of the cacao tree has been dated as far back as 1400 B.C. in Honduras‚ by the Olmecs. Chocolate was initially made into a type of beverage called xocolatl by the mesoamerican people‚ a nahuatl word meaning "bitter water" due to the cacao tree’s bitter taste when unfermented. Chocolate
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