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MIDTERM EXAM
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2020
LESSON 1
ECONOMICS
The Definition of Economy
Economics is the study of how humans make decisions in the face of scarcity. These can be
individual decisions, family decisions, business decisions or societal decisions. If you look
around carefully, you will see that scarcity is a fact of life. Scarcity means that human wants
for goods, services and resources exceed what is available. Resources, such as labor, tools,
land, and raw materials are necessary to produce the goods and services we want buy they exist
in limited supply.
There are at least four ways that societies organize an economy
- Traditional Economy
Traditional economies organize their economic affairs the way they have always done.
Traditional Economy used traditional method to do their own business. The example of
traditional economy is farmer.
- Command Economy
In a command economy, the government decides what goods and services will be produced
and what prices it will charge for them. The government decides what methods of
production to use and sets wages for workers.
In a market economy, decision-making is decentralized. Market economies are based on
private enterprise: the private individuals or groups of private individuals own and operate the
means of production (resources and businesses). Most economies in the real world are mixed.
They combine elements of command and market (and even traditional) systems. The U.S.
economy is positioned toward the market-oriented end of the spectrum.
Business
Business is the organized effort of individuals to produce and sell, for a profit, the goods and
services that satisfy society's needs. A person who risks his or her time, effort, and money to
start and operate a business is called an entrepreneur. To organize a business, an entrepreneur
must combine four kinds of resources: material, human, financial, and informational.
Three types of Business
- Manufacturing businesses (or manufacturers) are organized to process various materials
into tangible goods, such as delivery trucks or towels.
- Service businesses produce services, such as haircuts or legal advice.
- Middlemen are organized to buy the goods produced by manufacturers and then resell
them. For example, the General Electric Company is a manufacturer that produces clock
radios.
All three types of businesses may sell either to other firms or to consumers. In both cases, the
ultimate objective of every firm must be to satisfy the needs of its customers. People generally
don't buy goods and services simply to own them; they buy products to satisfy particular needs.
Competition
A free-market system implies competition among sellers of products and resources.
Based on the of ideality, there are five different degrees of competition:
• Pure (or perfect) competition is the complete form of competition. It is the market situation
in which there are many buyers and sellers of a product, and no single buyer or seller is
powerful enough to affect the price of that product.
• Monopolistic competition is a market situation in which there are many buyers along with
relatively many sellers who differentiate their products from the products of competitors
and it is very easy to enter into this market.
• An oligopoly is a market situation (or industry) in which there are few sellers (2-8).
Generally, these sellers are quite large, and sizable investments are required to enter into
their market. For this reason, oligopolistic industries tend to remain oligopolistic.
Examples of oligopolies are the American automobile, industrial chemicals, and oil
refining industries.
• A monopoly is a market (or industry) with only one seller. Because only one firm is the
supplier of a product, it has complete control over price.
Demand
Demand is a schedule or a curve that shows the various amounts of a product that consumers
are willing and able to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period
of time. Demand shows the quantities of a product that will be purchased at various possible
prices, other things equal.
The ideas expressed above are the foundation of the law of demand: Quantity demanded rises
as price falls, other things constant. Or alternatively: Quantity demanded falls as price rises,
other things constant.
the law of demand states that as the price goes up, the quantity demanded goes down,
other things constant. In other words, price and quantity demanded are inversely related, so the
demand curve slopes downward to the right. Notice that in stating the law of demand, I put in
the qualification "other things constant." That's three extra words, and unless they were
important I wouldn't have put them in. But what does "other things constant" mean? Say that
over two years, both the price of cars and the number of cars purchased rise. That seems to
violate the law of demand, since the number of cars purchased should have fallen in response
to the rise in price. Looking at the data more closely, however, we see that a third factor has
also changed: Individuals' income has increased.
Supply
Supply is a schedule or curve showing the amounts of a product that producers are willing and
able to make available for sale at each of a series of possible prices during a specific period.
In one sense, supply is the mirror image of demand. Individuals control the factors of
production - inputs, or resources, necessary to produce goods. Individuals supply of these
factors to the market mirrors other individuals. Demand for those factors. For example, say you
decide you want to rest rather than weed your garden. You hire some do the weeding you
demand labor. Someone else decides she would prefer more me instead of more rest; she
supplies labor to you. You trade money for labor, she horfor money. Her supply is the mirror
image of your demand.
There’s law of supply that corresponds to the law of demand. The law of supply states
Quantity supplied rises as prices rises, other things constant.
Or alternatively:
Quantity supplied falls as prices falls, other things constant
Notice how the supply curve slopes upward to the right. That upward slope captures the law of
supply. It tells us that the quantity supplied varies directly-in the same direction—with the price.
Equilibrium - Where Demand and Supply Intersect
When two lines on a diagram cross, this intersection usually means something. The point where
the supply curve (S) and the demand curve (D) cross, designated by point E in Figure 3.4, is
called the equilibrium. The equilibrium price is the only price where the plans of consumers
and the plans of producers agree that is, where the amount of the product consumers want to
buy (quantity demanded) is equal to the amount producers want to sell (quantity supplied).
Economists call this common quantity the equilibrium quantity. At any other price, the quantity
demanded does not equal the quantity supplied, so the market is not in equilibrium at that price.
LESSON 2
ENTERPRISE
Definition of The Enterprise
Definition of the enterprise, according to experts:
- There is in Law No. 3 of 1982 on company registration Article 1, letter b
The company is every form of business that runs every type of business that is permanent
and continuously aimed at obtaining profits.
- According to Prof. Mr.W.L.P.A. Molengraaff
From an economic point of view, companies are all actions that are carried out
continuously, acting out to earn income by trading goods, delivering goods or entering into
agreements.
- Abdul Kadir in his book entitled "Introduction to Corporate Law in Indonesia"
Based on the legal aspect, definition of an enterprise refers to legal entities and the actions
of business entities in carrying out their business. Or the enterprise is a place of production
activities and the gathering of all factors of production.
The enterprise is an independent economic entity based on professionally organized workforce,
capable of manufacturing products demanded by consumers using capital goods available.
the purpose of the company as a business entity are:
- First, look for profit for now and future. This is the most important due to the survival of
the company.
- Secondly, it serves the market is competitive, both now and coming. For this purpose, there
that first goal can be met continuously.
- Third, create a conducive atmosphere for all employees, so as to create conditions of safety
and ability to compete and creativity for the betterment of the company.
Classification of Enterprise
• By type of primary profit-generating activity enterprises, are classified into: industrial,
agricultural, commercial, service, investment, insurance enterprises and others.
• Based on the source of the enterprise's funding, are classified into:
- Internal Enterprise Resources, meaning that funding from internal enterprises.
- External Enterprise Resources, meaning that capital originating from external sources
is a source that comes from outside the enterprise.
• By form of business ownership enterprises such as:
- Individual Proprietorship, a business owned by one person alone. So the owners of
this enterprises have the responsibility and unlimited power over the enterprise and its
assets. Because owning, managing, as well as leading the enterprise.
- Partnership, a merger between two persons (entities) or more to own or together and
run a company in order to benefit. Form of partnership is: trading partnership, non-
trading partnership, general partnership, and limited partnership.
- Corporations, core enterprise which has various subsidiary companies under it.
Function of The Enterprise
• Operation Function, such as: purchasing, marketing, finance, personnel, the company’s
main operating functions, administrative accounting, information technology,
transformation and communication, public services and law and supporting operations
functions.
• Management Function, such as: planning, organizing, steering, control. If both are going
well the company will keep operations running smoothly, coordinated, integrated in order
to achieve the goal.
Enterprise Environment
An enterprise environment can be defined as the whole of the factors that affect the company's
extern, both the organization and its activities. Enterprise environment is divided into two,
including:
- Internal Environment, includes; Labor force, Equipment and machinery, Capital (Owner,
investor, fund management)
- External Environment, is divided into 2; Micro External environment consists of
customers, competitor, suppliers, government representatives and financial institutions.
Macro External Environment consists of economic, technological, political, legal and
sociocultural.
Sole Proprietorship
An un incorporation business owned by one person is called a sole proprietorship. Often the
owner also acts as the manager. This form of business organization is common for small retail
stores, farms, service businesses, and professional practices in law, medicine, clothing shop,
corner grocery the street are likely to be sole proprietorships.
Two main characteristics of this form of ownership is simplicity and individual control.
Advantages of Sole Proprietorships
- Ease and Low Cost of Formation and Dissolution: No contracts, agreements, or other
legal documents are required to start a sole proprietorship.
- Retention of All Profit: all profits earned by a sole proprietorship become the personal
earnings of its owner.
- Flexibility
- Possible Tax Advantages
- Secrecy, sole proprietors are not required by federal or state government to publicly
reveal their business plans, profits, or other vital facts.
Disadvantages of Sole Proprietorships
- Unlimited Liability is a legal concept that holds a sole proprietor personally responsible
for all the debts of his or her business.
- Lack of Continuity Legally
- Limited Ability to Borrow
- Limited Business Skills and Knowledge
- Lack of Opportunity for Employees
Partnership
A partnership (or general partnership) is a business owned jointly by two or more people. An
unincorporated business owned by two or more persons voluntarily actin as partners (co-
owners) is called a partnership. Professionals can help you identify and resolve issues that may
later create disputes among partners;
• The Partnership Agreement
• Unlimited Liability and The Partnership
• Limited Partnerships
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Partnership
Corporation
A corporation is an organization usually a group of people or a company authorized by the state
to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law for certain purposes. Early incorporated
entities were established by charter.
The Corporate Charter Once a "home state" has been chosen, the incorporators submit articles
of incorporation to the secretary of state. If the articles of incorporation are approved, they
become the firm's corporate charter. A corporate charter is a contract between the corporation
and the state, in which the state recognizes the formation of the artificial person that is the
corporation. Usually the charter (and thus the articles of incorporation) includes the following
information:
• Firm's name and address
• The incorporators' names and addresses
• The purpose of the corporation
• The maximum amount of stock and the types of stock to be issued
• The rights and privileges of shareholders
• How long the corporation is to exist (usually without limit)
Each of these key details is the result of decisions that the incorporators must make as they
organize the firm before the articles of incorporation are submitted.
Corporate ownership: The shares of ownership of a corporation are called its stock. The people
who own a corporation's stock—and thus own part of the corporation— are called its
stockholders, or sometimes its shareholders.
There a two kind of corporation
- A Close (Private) Corporation is a corporation whose stock is owned by relatively few
people and is not traded openly (that is, in stock markets)
- An Open (Public) Corporation is one whose stock is traded openly in stock markets and
can be purchased by any individual.
Corporate Structure
• Board of Directors, is the top body of a corporation
• Corporate Officers, is appointed by the board of directors
Advantages of Corporation
- Limited liability. Each owner’s financial liability is limited to the amount of money she
or he has paid for the corporation’s stock.
- Ease of transfer of ownership
- Ease of raising capital
- Perpetual life
- Specialized management
Disadvantage of Corporation
- Difficulty and expense of formation
- Government regulation, most government regulation of business is directed at
corporations.
- Double taxation
- Lack of secrecy
LESSON 4
MANAGERIAL FINANCE
Finance
Finance can be defined as the art and science of managing money. Finance is concerned with
the process, institutions, markets, and instruments involved in the transfer of money among
individuals, businesses, and governments.
Managerial Finance
Managerial Finance is essentially a combination of economy and accounting. First, finance
managers utilized accounting information, cash flows, etc., for planning and distribution of
finance resources of the company. Secondly, managers use economic principles as a guide for
financial decision making that favor the interest of the organization. In other words, finance
constitutes an area applied in economics that is supported by accounting information.
Definition of money
Money is anything that is accepted or trusted by the public as a means of payment or transaction.
Money in traditional economics is defined as any medium of exchange that can be generally
accepted. The medium of exchange can be any object that can be accepted by everyone in the
community in the process of exchanging goods and services. In modern economics, money is
defined as something available and generally accepted as a means of payment for the purchase
of goods and services and other valuable assets as well as for debt payments.
System Perspective
• Vertical backward linkage
• Vertical forward linkage
• Horizontal linkage
Implementation
• South Korea
The supporting institution called Small and Medium Industry Promotion Corporation is
semi-governmental and has the task of making the UK resilient and able to partner with
UB and carry out technology transfer and investment programs from UB to the UK.
• Japan
Japan established the Institute for promotion of subcontracting whose task is to strengthen
the position of the UK and UK technology and provide information.
• European Economic Community (EEC)
Supporting institutions in partnership established by MEE:
- BC-NET providing computerized partnership information
- BRITE, aims to improve UK skills in using technology and reduce technological gaps
with the UK
- ESPRIT, developing information technology
• Taiwanese
In developing industrial business partnerships in Taiwan, UB's satellite system Center was
made as a center and the UK and UM as satellites. To support the program, a Corporate
Synergy Development Center (CSD) was established, funded by the government and the
private sector.
Partnership Pattern
The partnership patterns include:
• Cooperation linkage between upstream-downstream (forward linkage)
• Collaboration between backward-upstream linkages (backward linkage)
• Cooperation in business owners, include the following:
- Written agreement
- Based on the principle of benefits
- Based on the fair principle
- There is no coercion
• Cooperation in the form of fathers and adopted children
• Cooperation in the form of foster father as venture capitalist
• Plasma core pattern
• Finding and achieve economies of scale
• Franchise
A common type of franchise today is the "franchise format business". In such transactions,
the franchisor has developed a product or service and the entire distribution / delivery
system and marketing of the product or service. Sometimes, component services or goods
services are also added to the system.
LESSON 9
BANKING
Banking Function
According to Santoso (2006: 9) explained that the main function of the bank as a Financial
Intermediary, a financial institution raising funds and the community in the form of deposits
and then channel it back to the community in the form credit then launches trade and circulation
transactions money. In more specifications, the functions of banks can be explained as follows:
• Agent of trust
• Agent of development
• Agent of service
The Advantages
• Making changes
• Accessibility
• Avoid corrupt data
• Duplication mistakes
Disadvantage
• Data entry errors
• Potential loss of physical copies
• Knowledge of accounting procedure
The Advantages
• Speed, data entry onto the computer with its formatted screens and built-in databases of
customers, supplier details and stock records can be carried out far more quickly than any
manual processing.
• Automatic document production, fast and accurate invoices, credit notes, purchase,
printing statements etc. all done automatically by software.
• Accuracy, there is less room for errors as only one accounting entry is needed for each
transaction rather than two (or three) for a manual system.
• Up to date information, the accounting records are automatically updated and so account
balances (e.g. customer accounts) will always be up to date.
• Availability of information, the data is instantly available and can be made available to
different users in different locations at the same time.
• Current time information, reports can be produced easily which will help management
monitor and control the business.
• Legibility, data is easy to read. The onscreen and printed data should always be legible and
so will avoid errors caused by poor figures.
• Efficiency, better use is made of resources and time; cash flow has improved through better
debt collection and inventory control.
• Staff motivation, the system will require staff to be trained to use new skills, which can
make them feel more motivated.
• Cost savings, computerized accounting programs reduce staff time doing accounts and
reduce audit expenses as records are neat, up-to-date and accurate.
• Reduce frustration, management can be on top of their accounts and thus reduce stress
levels associated with what is not known.
• The ability to deal in multiple currencies easily – many computerized accounting packages
now allow a business to trade in multiple currencies with ease. Problems associated with
exchange rate changes are minimized.
Disadvantages
• Reduction of manpower
• High cost
• Require special skills
• Other problem