COMMERCE 101.

    BALANCE OF PAYMENT AND BALANCE OF TRADE.

Hey Guyz, Happy Monday. How was the weekend, mine was cute, hope yours was lovely? Any way this is a new week and a new day to live, learn and have fun. So let’s get started.

Balance of Trade is the relationship between the values of a country’s import and export of visible items within a particular period of time.

If Visible Exports are more than Visible Imports, the Balance of Trade is said to be favorable. On the other hand, if the Visible Import exceeds the Visible Exports, the country is said to have unfavorable Balance of Trade.

Balance of Payment is a statement/record showing the relation between a country’s total payment to other countries and its total receipt from other countries in a year. In other words, it is the comparison of the sum total of a country’s receipt from export and the total payment made for import. Balance of Payment of a country shows the yearly statement of income and expenditure from visible and invisible export, and visible and invisible import respectively.

A Country’s Balance of Payment can be divided into three parts:

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COMMERCE 101

                         DIVISION OF FOREIGN TRADE.

Hey Guyz, what’s happening? How are you all doing, hope great? It’s a beautiful day to live, learn and be merry. Today we are continuing our commerce 101 series.

International Trade can be divided into:

a.     Export.

b.     Import.

c.      Enter-port.

IMPORT.

This is the act of buying goods and services from other countries. It is sometimes restricted to control the country’s Balance of Payment.

It can be divided into:

VISIBLE IMPORT- Consists of goods that can be seen and touched ( i.e. Tangible Goods), that are bought from other countries. For example, The Tangible Visible Imports of Nigeria are Automobiles, Machineries, Electronics etc.

INVISIBLE IMPORT- Consists of services that cannot be seen or touched, which are bought from other countries. For example, Banking.

BARRIERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

1.     Language Problem- Two countries that speak and understand the same language can trade easily. For example, Nigeria trading with America. While it will be difficult

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ECONS 101.

                            PRODUCTION.

Hey Guyz, Happy Thursday to you. How was your day yesterday, hope it was fruitful and cool. Today we are back to Econs 101 with the above topic, so let’s get straight to work.

Production is defined as the various economic activities aimed at the creation of goods and services, and the distribution of these goods and services to the final consumer, for the satisfaction of their human wants.

It is also the creation of Utility, which is the satisfaction derived from consuming a unit of a product. Production can only be complete when the goods and services get to the final consumers.

TYPES OF GOODS.

Goods can be classified into two major groups, namely:

1.     CONSUMER GOODS:  are goods and services that don’t need further production; they can satisfy the wants of the consumer in their form. Like Milk, Services like The Police etc.

Consumer Goods can further be grouped into the following:

a.     Durable Goods- They are goods that can be used over and over again. Like Radio, Television, Cooking Pots etc.

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FINANCIAL ACC 101.

          BALANCING OF LEDGER ACCOUNT.

Hey Guyz, How was your Night. Hope it was beautiful and peaceful? Mine was great. It’s therefore a New day and a beautiful one at that, it’s really an honour to see and experience today don’t you think. Anyways I know it’s kind of been a while we did this subject ACC 101. Let’s get started.

Before the preparation of Trial Balance, the account must be balanced off at regular intervals during the financial year. It is necessary to balance each account in order to ascertain the overall position recorded in the bookkeeping system. In balancing the account, the following procedures must be followed:

1.     Post all debit items.

2.     Add all the items on the debit side.

3.     Post all credit items.

4.     Add all the items on the credit side.

5.     Compare both the two totals.

6.     If the debit side is greater, insert the difference in the credit side.

7.     If the credit side is greater, insert the difference in the debit side.

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BRINGBACKTHEGIRLS.

I COULDNT LEAVE TODAY WITHOUY LENDING MY VOICE TO HEAVILY EXPRESS MY ANGER AND DISPLEASURE AT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN MY COUNTRY NIGERIA. THE CHIBOK GIRLS THAT WERE ABDUCTED. BRING THEM BACK!!!!!!!

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!!!!

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COMMERCE 101.

                                       FOREIGN TRADE.

Hey Guyz, It’s a Beautiful Tuesday- isn't it? How was your day yesterday and your rest yesterday, hope it was peaceful and lovely? I Pray in the name of Jesus that he grants you peaceful rest in all areas of your life- Amen. Now to the matter, we are back with Commerce 101 and we are focusing on the above named topic today, so let’s have fun.

Foreign Trade is the exchange of goods and services between two or more countries. It is when two countries have trading ties and commercial relationship of import and export. In other words, it is referred to as International Trade or External Trade. When Nigeria buys Automobile Cars from Germany, Foreign Trade has taken place.

MAJOR TYPES OF FOREIGN TRADE.

There are two main types of Foreign Trade, and they are:

1.     Bilateral Trade.

2.     Multilateral Trade.

BILATERAL TRADE.

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ECONS 101.

  BASIC ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN THE SOCIETY.

Hey Guyz, Happy Monday. It’s actually the first Monday in the month of May and it’s such an honour to be ALIVE don’t you think? Well today we continue Econs. 101.

Basic Economics Problems refer to the problems people encounter in the society, while trying to satisfy their numerous human wants, and with the limited resources available. They include- What to Produce, How to produce, for whom to produce and Efficiency of Resource use.

WHAT TO PRODUCE.

The question of what to produce is one of the basic economic problems that confronts any society. This arises mainly as a result of the fact that human wants are unlimited relative to the available resources. It is impossible for all of human wants to be satisfied, thus the need to allocate resources in order of priority is crucial.

FACTORS DETERMINING WHAT TO PRODUCE:

1.     Market Demand- The demand of a particular set of goods and services by customers may encourage producers to produce more of these goods and services. No

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