Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

Define the term 'share capital'.

Analyse how the features of an international market may differ from the features of a national market.

'Senior business managers must have a high level of emotional intelligence to be effective.' Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer.

Analyse the rights and responsibilities of employees as stakeholders in a business.

Magical Mirrors (MM) MM manufactures a range of mirrors using flow production. MM benefits from economies of scale. Ben and Mary, the owners of MM,...

Security Alarms (SA) SA was set up 20 years ago as a partnership. It had one shop that sold car alarms. It had an objective to become the market le...

Paul is a chef. He is looking to set up a new pizza restaurant in his local town in country A. He has done some research into the pizza market in t...

QL is a worker co-operative. It is equally owned by ten owner-workers and was set up five years ago. QL produces bags, cases and wallets made from ...

Designer Clothing (DC) DC is a medium sized private limited company. DC has three main shareholders. It has been trading for ten years. DC makes lu...

Budding Gardens (BG) BG is a partnership owned and managed by Barry and Michael. BG is in the tertiary sector. BG is a landscape gardening business...

Tango Travel Company (TTC) TTC is the largest travel company in country X. It organises holidays for travellers to many countries. TTC sells mainly...

Takeover of Sunny Resort Hotels (SRH) Two years ago Oli, the Chief Executive of TTC, persuaded the Board to take a rushed decision to take over SRH...

Future expansion plans Oli and the other directors have plans to expand TTC but disagree over the best strategy to use. Option 1: This is preferred...

Accounting decisions The Appendix contains a summary of TTC's accounts for the year to 31 May 2017. The Finance Director wants to improve liquidity...

Hari Hotels (HH) 'We must take advantage of the huge growth in international tourism if we want our company to continue to grow profitably' argued ...

Analyse the benefits to PV of outsourcing the manufacture of components for its shoes.

Refer to the table in Appendix 1. Calculate: (i) seasonal variation in 2015 Quarter 1

Discuss how PV might change the way it organises production to achieve its objectives.

Refer to Appendix 2. Calculate: (i) payback period

Evaluate how PV should respond to the threat of employees leaving the business (lines 65–71).

Evaluate the importance of strategic analysis for PV when considering options A and B.

Discuss the importance of strategic management to the future success of PV.

Define the term 'productivity'.

Explain how ethics may influence the objectives of a business.

Define the term 'margin of safety'.

Analyse why accurate cost data is important for all businesses.

'A business mission statement is only important if it directly affects the strategy and tactics of that business.' Discuss this view.

Analyse the possible disadvantages to a business of using performance related pay to motivate its employees.

Define the term 'inventory management'.

Define the term 'below-the-line promotion'.

Explain the possible long-term consequences for a business of low levels of employee motivation.

Define the term 'capital expenditure'.

Analyse why a train company might use a strategy of price discrimination.

In recent years a significant number of businesses have been accused of being unethical.

Analyse why many human resource departments have developed policies for diversity and equality.

CS owns 28 supermarkets which sell food and non-food products. Each CS supermarket has a large product portfolio with over 10000 different products...

VC is a public limited company which produces canned vegetables. VC is supplied with fresh vegetables by 20 farms. VC processes and packages the ve...

Online Travel (OT) OT is a private limited company in country X that sells international holidays on the internet. All of OT's current range of ho...

Umpire Umbrellas (UU) UU is a private limited company that sells umbrellas with pictures it prints on them. All of the pictures on the umbrellas a...

Delivery To You (DTY) DTY is a public limited company in the tertiary sector. DTY delivers packages for businesses in country A. DTY's main custome...

Pencil Pushers (PP) Jacqueline is a sole trader who owns PP. She set up the business six months ago to manufacture pencils. The market for pencils ...

Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of PGP's privatisation for any one stakeholder group.

Refer to Table 2. Calculate the difference between the annual cost of outsourcing the transport of fuel in country X and the existing annual cost o...

Discuss the likely advantages and disadvantages to PGP of the proposed delayering of its organisational structure.

Refer to Table 3. Calculate for PGP: price earnings ratio

Evaluate the usefulness of the moving average method to forecast sales of oil and gas to PGP.

Evaluate the usefulness of any two techniques of strategic analysis to PGP's Board of Directors.

Discuss whether the techniques referred to in Appendix 1 are sufficient to allow the directors to make the strategic choice between Option A and Op...

Analyse the likely positive and negative impact on DA of having a decentralised organisational structure.

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate as at 20 April 2018: