Is the course a purchased commodity or a service?

1, commodity: commodity is the result of labor for sale, the product of the development of human social productive forces to a certain historical stage, and the product of labor for exchange. Engels made a scientific summary of this: commodities are first and foremost private products. However, only when these private products are not for their own consumption, but for the consumption of others, that is, for the consumption of society, will they become commodities; They enter the consumption of society through exchange. "The accounting definition of commodities is all kinds of commodities purchased or entrusted by commodity circulation enterprises and accepted for warehousing and sales. In the compulsory political book of People's Education Edition, the definition is the product of labor used for exchange. The basic attributes of commodities are value and use value. Value is the essential attribute of commodities, and use value is the natural attribute of commodities.

2. Service: usually invisible, it is the result of the contact between the supplier (organizations and individuals providing products) and the customer (organizations and individuals receiving products), the result of the internal activities of the supplier, and the result of at least one activity that needs to be completed in the contact between the supplier and the customer. Such as medical care, transportation, consulting, finance and trade, tourism, education and so on. The provision of services can include: activities completed on tangible products provided to customers (such as cars under maintenance); Activities completed on intangible products provided to customers (such as income statement required for preparing tax returns); Deliver intangible products (such as providing knowledge transfer information); Create an atmosphere for customers, eg in hotels and restaurants. Service features include: safety, confidentiality, comfortable environment, credit, courtesy and waiting time.

Therefore, the purchased courses belong to services.