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Economic Costs

Economic costs are implicit costs plus explicit costs.

Economic Effects

Economic effects refer to the economic benefits and disadvantages between sectors of the economy as a result of inflation.

Economic Goods

Economic goods are goods that fetch a price.

Economic Growth

Economic growth refers to an expansion in the productive economy.

Economic Principle

The economic principle encompasses a wide variety of economic laws and theories that define or explain how an economy attempts to satisfy the unlimited demand in the marketplace with a finite supply of resources available to do so.

Economic Profit

Economic profit is the result of total revenue minus explicit costs minus implicit costs.

Economic Value Added (EVA)

In corporate finance, as part of fundamental analysis, economic value added is an estimate of a firm's economic profit, or the value created in excess of the required return of the company's shareholders. EVA is the net profit less the capital charge for raising the firm's capital. 

Economics

Economics is the study of how man attempts to satisfy his unlimited wants and needs by way of limited resources. This relative scarcity of resources implies the existence of cost and the need for choice. 

Economies of Density

In microeconomics, economies of density are cost savings resulting from spatial proximity of suppliers or providers. Typically higher population densities allow synergies in service provision leading to lower unit costs. 

Economies of Scope

Economies of scope are "efficiencies formed by variety, not volume". In economics, "economies" is synonymous with cost savings and "scope" is synonymous with broadening production/services through diversified products.

Effectiveness

The degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result; success.

Efficiency

Efficiency is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

Elastic Demand

Elastic demand exists when the change in quantity is larger than the change in price.

Elasticity

Elasticity is a measure of responsiveness or sensitivity to a dependent variable when an independent variable changes.

Elasticity Coefficient

Elasticity coefficient is the ratio of the percentage change in quantity demanded to the percentage change in the price of that product.

Employee Engagement Cycle

The employee life cycle model (ELC) is an organizational method used to visualize how an employee engages with the company they are a part of. There are six stages involved in this model: Attraction, Recruitment, Onboarding, Development, Retention, and Separation.

Engineer to Order (ETO)

Manufacturing process where product is built as per customer specifica-tion due to requiring unique engineering, design, customisation etc. 

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship refers to the skill that people who open and own a business possess. The act of opening a business.

EOQ

EOQ – Optimal order level that keeps the costs associated with inventory at their lowest level.

Equal Advantage

Exists where a country can produce a good or ser-vice with the same opportunity costs than another country, i.e. their pro-duction ratios are the same. Countries with equal advantage will not trade. 

Equilibrium

Equilibrium is a state of balance when opposing forces are balanced and there is no incentive for change.

Equilibrium Exchange Rate

Equilibrium exchange rate is where the quantity of foreign currency demanded is equal to the quantity of foreign currency supplied. Expressed as the value of one currency in terms of the value of another.

Essential Goods

Essential goods are goods which the consumer needs for day to day living.

Evaluation

For an organisation to stay competitive, it is necessary for salespeople to reach business and personal goals. The sales manager’s role is thus to lead and motivate his or her sales team to perform and at the end of each performance period, the manager must evaluate their performance. In this regard, performance evaluation is understood as a formal, structured (face to face) system of measuring and evaluating a salesperson’s activities and performance.

Excess Supply

Excess supply when a greater number of goods are supplied than are being demanded.

ExcessDemand

Excess demand when a greater number of goods are demanded than are being supplied.

Exchange Rate

Exchange rate is where the value of one currency is expressed in terms of the value of another.

Exchange Rate Policy

Exchange rate policy refers to policy measures put in place to discourage shifting funds offshore.

Expansionary Policy

Expansionary policy refers to either monetary or fiscal policy aimed at counteracting unemployment.

Expenditure Method

Expenditure method is one of the methods to calculate GDP by adding all sector expenditure in the economy.

Expense

Expense – amounts incurred during a particular financial period.

Explicit Costs

Explicit costs are reflected in money terms, e.g. salary.

Exploratory Relationship

The exploratory stage is the earliest stage of relationship development before trading begins. Woodburn and McDonald (2011) describe it as the investigation and development or understanding stage, where the potential of importance of the relationship qualifies the customer as a future key account.

Exports

Exports refer to goods that are sold outside a country’s borders.

External Audit

An external auditor performs an audit, in accordance with specific laws or rules, of the financial statements of a company, government entity, other legal entity, or organization, and is independent of the entity being audited.