4.03_PI902 Vocab Crossword
Across
- 3. A profit-oriented pricing objective in which the business bases the amount of profit it wants to earn on the amount of its sales; also known as target return
- 9. A profit-oriented pricing objective in which the business bases the amount of profit it wants to earn on the amount of its capital investment
- 14. Assets of a business
- 15. Goals a company hopes to accomplish through its pricing strategies
- 18. A category of pricing objectives that focus on increasing total amount of income from sales
- 19. The expenses involved with manufacturing, promoting, and distributing a product
- 21. The product life cycle stage in which sales and profits fall rapidly
- 24. The difference between the cost of a product and its selling price
- 26. The product life cycle stage in which sales rise rapidly
- 28. The particular assortment of goods and services that a business offers to meet the needs of its market(s) and its company goals
- 29. All of a business’s costs, both fixed and variable
- 32. The product life cycle stage when the product first appears in the marketplace
- 34. A pricing technique in which consumers are given the price per unit (ounce, pound, etc.) for products along with the total price of the items
- 37. An illegal activity in which a business charges different customers different prices for similar amounts and types of products
Down
- 1. A type of market structure in which a lot of businesses sell similar products that have only a few differences
- 2. Business costs that change according to changes in sales volume; also known as variable expenses
- 4. The amount of a firm’s sales, usually expressed in dollars
- 5. A market structure in which there are many businesses selling a lot of nearly identical products for about the same price to many buyers
- 6. The product life cycle stage in which sales peak and then increase at a slower rate or start to decline
- 7. Promoting a low-priced item to attract customers to whom the business then tries to sell a higher-priced item
- 8. Actual price that prevails in a market at any particular moment
- 10. Business costs that are not affected by changes in sales volume; also known as fixed expenses
- 11. Periods of expansion and contraction in economic activities
- 12. A category of pricing objectives that focus on profit for the business
- 13. The degree of excellence of a good or service—how good it is
- 16. All of the expenses involved in running a business that are not directly related to production
- 17. A profit-oriented pricing objective intended to make the firm the most possible immediate profit
- 20. An organization’s portion of the total industry sales in a specific market
- 22. A market structure in which there are relatively few sellers, and industry leaders usually determine prices
- 23. A market structure in which the market is controlled by one supplier, and there are no substitute goods or services readily available
- 25. Illegal business agreement in which businesses agree on prices of their goods or services, resulting in little choice for the consumer
- 27. The stages through which goods and services move from the time they are introduced on the market until they are taken off the market
- 30. A profit-oriented pricing objective in which the business bases the amount of profit it wants to earn on the amount of its sales; also known as return on sales
- 31. The amount a seller charges the purchaser for a good or a service
- 33. The particular group of customers a business seeks to attract
- 35. Monetary reward a business owner receives for taking the risk involved in investing in a business; income left once all expenses are paid
- 36. The movement of funds into and out of a business; determines the amount of cash the business has to work with at any given time