1. Unit 1
Business are structured in different ways to meet different needs.
bleatThe simplest form of business is called an individual or sole proprietorship. The proprietor(经营者) owns all of the property of the business and is responsible for everything.
For legal purpos, with this kind of business, the owner and the company are the same. This means that the proprietor gets to keep all of the profits of the business, but also must pay any debts.
Another kind of business is the partnership. Two or more people go into business together. An agreement is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls.
One kind of partnership is called a limited liability partnership. The have full partners and limited partners. Limited partners may not share as much in the profits, but they also have less responsibilities for the business.
Doctors, lawyers and accountants often form partnerships to share their risks and profits. A husband and wife can form a business partnership together.
Partnerships exist only for as long as the owners remain alive. The same is true of individual proprietorships.
But corporations are designed to have an unlimited lifetime. A corporation is the most complex kind of business organization.
Corporations can ll stock as a way to rai money. Stock reprents shares of ownership in a company. Investors who buy stock can trade their shares or keep them as long as the company is in business.
A company might u some of its earnings to pay dividends(红利) as a reward to s
hareholders. Or the company might reinvest the money into the business.
If shares lo value, investors can lo all of the money they paid for their stock. But shareholders are not responsible for the debts of the corporation.
A corporation is recognized as an entity(实体)——its own legal being, parate from its owners.
vasA board of directors control corporate policies. The directors appoint top company officers. The directors might or might not hold shares in the corporation.
绝望主妇第三季If shares lo value, investors can lo all of the money they paid for their stock.
苏州培训But not all corporations are traditional business that ll stock. Some nonprofit groups are also organized as corporations.
2. Unit 2
In the past three week I have introduced you to the ideas and methods of economicibt报名
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In the next week, we will start learning more, in more detail the principles of economic behavior and economic policy.
As you proceed through the whole mester, you will be asked to draw on many of your intellectual skills.
在过去的三周里,我向你介绍了经济学的思想和方法。
在接下来的一周内,我们将开始学习更多的,更详细的经济行为和经济政策的原则。
altea当你进行整个学期,你会被要求画上许多你的知识技能。
You might find it helpful to keep in mind some advice from the great economist John Maynard Keynes:
你可能会发现它很有帮助,以保持在一些意见,从伟大的经济学家凯因斯梅纳德:
The study of economics does not em to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science?avici
por经济学的研究似乎并不需要任何特殊的高阶的特殊的礼物。它不是一个很容易的学科相比,更高的分支机构的哲学或纯科学?
An easy subject, at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps in that the master-economist must posss a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher- in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the prent in the light of the past for the purpos of the future. No part of man`s nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purpoful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood as aloof and incorruptible as an artist yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.