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According to Peter Drucker, profit serves ___ main purposes.

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The correct option is B 3


According to Peter Drucker, profit serves three main purposes.

1. A measure of performance: It tells us how the business is doing. More profits mean better performance and fewer profits means not so good performance.

2. Premium to cover costs of staying in business: It is said that profit is the cost of being and staying in business.

3. Ensuring a supply of future capital: As the money, a business earns can be used later on as retained earnings for further operations.


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