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Small Business
Today small businesses are the heart of the market economy. There are a great number & variety of small businesses. People become owners & operators of small business firms in one of three ways: start a new firm, buy a franchise, buy or inherit an existing firm.
Small firms have-been established to manufacture & distribute goods, to sell them at retail & to provide all kinds of needed services. The existence of a strong, healthy small business community is recognized as the best way to preserve competition, prevent monopolistic control of any industries, creating new jobs, products & services.
A small business is one which is independently owned & operated &'not dominant in its field of operation.. It should possess at least two of the following four characteristics: 1) management of the firm is independent; 2) capital is supplied &~the ownership is held by an individual j т a small group; 3) the area of operation is-mainly local; 4) the size of the firm within its industry must be small .when compared with the biggest units. There are the following criteria for defining small business: retailing, service, wholesaling, manufacturing.
The list of terms can be used to describe the size of a business:
Total assets - all that a business owns.
Net worth - business assets less that is owed.
Gross profits - money left from sales after expenses (except taxes) have been paid.
Employees - total number of workers & managers.
Net profit - what is left from gross profit after business income taxes are paid.
Income - net receipts, the total sales, less retu
s, allowances & discounts.
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