Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

Recommend an appropriate organisation structure for SU.

Refer to Appendix 2. Calculate: the promotional elasticity of SU beach umbrellas

Discuss the role of product development to the future success of SU.

Evaluate the importance of strategic implementation for the success of Options 1 and 2.

Evaluate strategic choice techniques SU might use when deciding between Option 1 and Option 2.

Analyse the benefits to DLR of the elasticity concept when developing the new marketing plan.

Refer to Appendix A and lines 74–79. Produce a forecast Income Statement for the year ending 30 September 2019. Assume no other changes.

Recommend changes the Human Resources Director could make to DLR's human resource strategy. Justify your recommendation.

Refer to Table 1. Calculate for 2018:

Assess the extent to which any two of the forecast changes in Table 3 could influence DLR's future decision-making.

Discuss the importance to DLR's future profitability of business planning.

Discuss whether DLR's use of strategic choice techniques can eliminate risk when taking strategic decisions.

Analyse how the proposed changes in the fiscal policy of the Government in country X could affect BKC.

Refer to Appendix 1. Draw a network diagram for the new factory project.

Evaluate the implications of increasing globalisation for BKC's future marketing plans.

Refer to Table 1. Calculate for 2018: inventory turnover ratio

Assess how BKC could best improve communication with employees and customers.

Evaluate the importance of strategic analysis to BKC when planning to achieve its new long term objective.

Evaluate whether the information in Appendix 2 is sufficient to allow the Board of BKC to make the strategic choice between strategy 1 and strategy 2.

Define the term 'workforce planning'.

Explain why the objectives of a business may change over time.

Define the term 'diseconomies of scale'.

Analyse the advantages to an entrepreneur of purchasing a franchise to start a business.

A loss-making state-owned airline has a reputation for poor customer service. Its Human Resource Director suggested that: 'the best way to improve ...

Analyse how break-even analysis might be used by a business when making a decision to introduce a new product.

Lian is a chicken farmer. Her farm is located on the edge of a busy town. The main output from her farm is eggs. The eggs are transported by truck ...

FF is a private limited company which sells flower arrangements for special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries. This is a very competiti...

QF is owned by Seojun. Seojun is a sole trader who repairs and builds wooden fences. Most of his customers own houses with gardens in city X. Seoj...

CP is a public limited company which sells candy (sweets) to its national market and international markets. CP has benefitted from internal growth ...

BB is a family-owned small business. The firm manufactures bicycles which are supplied to independent retailers. Recently, Lia, the Sales Director,...

Nadia graduated, last year, with a degree in business management. Nadia is friendly and creative with lots of ideas. Whilst at university, she set ...

Analyse the advantages to QH of its HRM policy.

Refer to Appendix A below (reproduced from the insert). Appendix A: Network for assembling a kit house B 1 H 2 0 A C E F 1 2 3 4 5 0 3 2 1 2 D 2 G ...

Discuss the possible effects on QH of the changes to the macroeconomic policies as announced by the Finance Minister of Country Z.

Recommend which method of market entry QH should use to start selling houses in the European market.

Evaluate whether the strategic analysis undertaken by Artur is sufficient to provide QH with a framework for business strategy.

Assume QH has decided to manufacture and sell steel framed houses. Evaluate the importance of developing a strategy to manage this change.

Analyse the likely impact on AEV's profit of intervention by governments in the car market.

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate for 2019:

'AEV is unable to meet this demand due to a lack of capacity and supply constraints' (Lines 47-48). Other than expansion of CellX, discuss ways in ...

Refer to Table 1. Calculate the difference in labour turnover between 2017 and 2018.

Discuss the significance of product development to AEV's future success.

Evaluate the importance of business planning to AEV's future profitability.

Recommend which one of the two strategic options AEV should choose. Justify your recommendation. Your answer must include an evaluation of strategi...

Analyse the threats to CSP of the changes in the energy market and government policy.

Evaluate the Marketing Director's view that: 'the greener energy mission statement is the most important factor in the success of our solar panel m...

Refer to Appendix 2 and lines 53–57. Calculate:

Evaluate the possible benefits to CSP of the close involvement of employees and the ECE trade union in the workplace.

Discuss the usefulness of strategic choice techniques for the directors of CSP when making a choice between options A and B.

Evaluate the importance of contingency planning for CSP.