Characteristics of Business

1. Human activities:
Business cannot be performed without human efforts. The main aim of business is to produce goods and services to fulfill the requirement of human being internally associated in the production or the consumers.

2. Economic activities:
It is concerned with earning profits and generating wealth, which are measured in terms of money. Economic activities include production of goods and services, distribution of goods and services and the benefits generated from them.

3. Production of goods and services:
The main feature of business is to produce goods and services. Business is concerned with the production of goods and services to the society. In this process we get goods from shopkeeper, shopkeeper gets from wholesaler. The wholesaler gets from manufacturers. The shopkeeper, the wholesaler, the manufacturer are doing business to earn profit.

4. Risk and uncertainty:
There is no business if there is no risk but accidents never knock the door. In future anything may happen. So risk is a possibility that losses may occur. Introduction of new product, change in government policies, change in customer taste and preference etc are the risks.

5. Profit motive:
Business has the main aim to earn profit. To get maximum profit revenue of business should be maximized. Profit generation is vital for business survival and expansion. However, profit should be earned through legal and fair means and in ethical manner. Profit is the reward for the investors.

6. Continuous process:
Continuous process means to provide goods and services by the business to the customers continuously and regularly. In business, the exchange of goods and services is a regular feature. A businessman regularly deals in a number of transactions and not just one or two transactions.

7. Satisfaction of customers:
The aim of business is to satisfy human demands by producing quality of goods and also to supply right product in right time at right place to meet the right needs. Quality goods should be provided at reasonable price.

8. Finance:
Finance is known as “life blood” of business. Business needs investment of capital and to run smoothly. For regular and continuous business finance is needed, finance includes purchase of raw materials, payment of wages, assets of business and so in.

9. Organizing:
It means integration of all activities. Co-ordination is very important for organizing. Allocation of limited resource, assigning job, authority and responsibility also comes under organizing.