What are physical resources?

• A. Raw materials, office and production facilities, and equipment
• B. Capital investments to support ongoing and long-term operations
• C. Managerial talent and labor, staff
• D. Usable data, info linkages

Answer: (A)

Physical resources are the tangible assets a business uses to produce goods or deliver services. They include raw materials that are consumed or transformed in production, offices and production facilities where work happens, and equipment or tools that perform tasks. These are concrete items you can touch and physically utilize in operations. Other categories describe non-physical assets: capital investments are financial resources used to fund activities, human resources are the people and their skills, and informational resources are data and information networks. So listing raw materials, facilities, and equipment best represents the tangible, physical side of what a business relies on.