Across
- 2. The people who make or provide goods and services
- 6. The economic process or activity of producing goods and services
- 7. People who assume the risks of starting and operating businesses
- 9. Maintaining a large inventory
- 13. Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services
- 14. Nonrenewable, carbon-based energy sources formed underground from the fossilized remains of plants and animals
- 15. To slow down the use of something to make its supply last longer than it would otherwise
Down
- 1. Information used to describe a population
- 3. A method of operating or controlling a process in which tasks are completed by automatic means, such as technology, reducing human effort and labor
- 4. Items in their natural state or condition
- 5. Stock of goods
- 8. Starting and building a business
- 10. Scientific applications to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives
- 11. A scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as they work the required number of hours
- 12. Scientific applications to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives
