Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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1 The Shop (TS) Thomas worked for 30 years as a manager of a factory. Although he was very good at his job he was recently made redundant. Thomas ...
2 Market Solution (MS) MS is a public limited company in the tertiary sector. MS advises businesses on elements of the marketing mix. Most of its c...
Super Heroes (SH) SH is a leisure (theme) park aimed at 10–18 year olds. It is owned by two companies, X and Y, which started SH as a joint venture...
Flight Food (FF) FF is a large secondary sector business that supplies airlines with in-flight meals. Meals are manufactured using batch production...
Analyse the benefits to JGS of outsourcing.
Refer to Table 1 and lines 24-26. Calculate the: average seasonal variation for quarter 3
JGS is planning to increase the number of employees. Recommend an appropriate organisational structure for JGS. Justify your recommendation.
Refer to Table 2. Calculate the:
Discuss whether JGS should maintain high standards of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Evaluate whether the decision tree calculation in Table 3 is sufficient for JGS to make a strategic choice between Option 1 and Option 2.
Evaluate the significance of contingency planning for JGS as it prepares to implement its future strategies.
Analyse the likely impact on HBG's costs and revenues of increasing its focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Refer to Table 2. Calculate the: contribution of the café
Discuss whether introducing a decentralised organisational structure will benefit HBG.
Refer to Table 3 and Appendix 1:
Recommend the changes that HBG should make to its marketing strategy to achieve its objectives of increasing membership and visitor numbers. Justif...
Evaluate whether SWOT analysis is sufficient to make sure that HBG's future strategies are the most appropriate ones for the organisation.
Evaluate the importance to HBG of developing a change culture in order to implement Eusebio's four strategic changes (lines 46 to 49).
Analyse the advantages and disadvantages to PAC of country X's exchange rate appreciating against other currencies (lines 12 to 17).
Refer to Appendix 1 and any other information. Calculate the:
PAC requires a marketing strategy for its new 'healthy life' menu. Evaluate the importance of social media and other online methods of promotion to...
Refer to Appendix 2. Calculate the forecast net present value (NPV) of the proposed pizza van project over four years.
Recommend ways in which Paulo might solve the current quality problems in some PAC restaurants. Justify your recommendation.
Evaluate the usefulness of the information in Appendix 4 for the directors of PAC as they make the strategic choice between Option 1 and Option 2.
Evaluate the importance to PAC of contingency planning as part of strategic implementation if Option 2 is chosen.
Define the term 'co-operatives'.
Define the term 'job production'.
Explain the importance of working capital to a new business.
Define the term 'contract of employment'.
Analyse how product portfolio analysis can help a business to achieve its marketing objectives.
'The success of any manufacturing business will depend on the productivity of its workforce.' Discuss the extent to which you agree with this view.
Analyse the benefits to a business of accurate cost information.
Ray's Taxis (RT) Ray is a sole trader providing a taxi service in city L. Recently, demand for Ray's taxi has fallen due to an increase in the numb...
Juliet's Theatre Group (JTG) Juliet and her friends would all like careers in acting. They have formed a co-operative called JTG which is based in ...
Karen is a sole trader who operates a service business called Hot Bubblez (HB) from her own home. It is a laundry service in town P. Each day Karen...
Lakeland Oysters (LO) is a private limited company in country G that was started by the Dar family in 2010. LO farms oysters in a lake that is owne...
Bilal's Homes (BH) Bilal is a sole trader, who buys and sells apartments for a profit. Bilal left university two years ago and moved back to his pa...
Belted Up (BU) Belted Up (BU) is a manufacturer of hand-made leather belts for clothing. The business makes a range of sizes and colours of belts u...
Analyse the advantages to PGC of using enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Refer to Table 1 and other information provided. Calculate, using net realisable value, the: value of packed ground coffee inventory at 30 April 2021
Recommend a coordinated marketing mix for the new barista courses.
Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate: earliest start time (EST) for Activity F
Evaluate the importance of workforce planning to the success of PGC's proposed new cafés.
Evaluate the importance of PEST analysis to the directors as they consider whether PGC should supply tea.
Evaluate the usefulness of strategic choice techniques to the directors as they consider Peter's proposal for PGC to open cafés.
Analyse the impact on Inolla of two changes in the economic environment in country Q.
Refer to Table 1. Calculate for 2020: labour turnover
Evaluate whether Inolla will need to change its marketing strategy to increase sales to businesses that rent out scooters in the shared micromobili...
Refer to lines 72–74 and Table 2. Calculate the: accounting rate of return (ARR)
Evaluate whether Inolla should subcontract production of electric scooters to solve the problem of insufficient capacity.