Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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Identify and explain four factors that affect how much stock of fruit and vegetables Manuel's shop should have.
Gomez is the manager of a small computer repair business. Table 1 shows some costs and prices for his business. As it is a competitive market, Gome...
Country S is enjoying an economic boom. During this time, businesses have increased their profits and unemployment has fallen. The only problem is ...
Si and Ramon are friends. They want to set up a photography business. They would take pictures at weddings, birthdays and other special events. The...
Javid is a company that manufactures a range of luxury chocolates using batch production. Over the past year, profit has fallen due to increased co...
PJK makes a range of luxury sports watches. Each watch is handmade by skilled workers. Quality assurance is important. The Operations Director has ...
Alkin is a multinational company. It manufactures breakfast food products including many leading brands of cereal. Alkin plans to start selling in ...
Mabel wants to set up her own hairdressing business. She will need to build good customer relationships. She has done some secondary market researc...
A2Z is a small but successful airline company in country B, providing flights for business people. The management of A2Z wants the business to expa...
Identify and explain two characteristics David needs to be a successful entrepreneur.
Identify and explain two ways in which marketing is important for DD.
The company Balance Sheet helps David assess the performance of the business.
Identify and explain four factors DD should consider when packaging cakes if they are exported.
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EDGE makes mobile (cell) phones. It operates in a competitive market. The Marketing manager believes that because EDGE is good at maintaining custo...
Bushall is a farm. This primary sector business grows award-winning fruits such as pineapples and bananas. Bushall has 10 full-time and 50 part-tim...
Rafiq is the Operations manager at a small factory. The business makes a range of soft drinks using batch production. Last year Rafiq successfully ...
Nuwan is a sole trader. He has a specialist sports shop selling a wide range of cricket and tennis products. His 3 employees are trained to provide...
Saltan makes a range of cars. The level of inventory is too high so it plans to decrease production at its factory. Employees were told the busines...
F&G is a leading fashion retailer. It has 20 shops in country C. The business uses market segmentation. Its target market is men aged between 25 an...
Alex and Raul are business partners. They started a bicycle repair business with their own savings as the bank would not give them a loan. Raul doe...
KLG is based in country X. It specialises in making electrical parts which it sells to washing machine manufacturers in country X. The Managing Dir...
Identify and explain one advantage and one disadvantage to Rosa and Eduardo of forming a business partnership.
Identify and explain two methods of training employees to use the new computer system.
The Government is expanding the public sector provision of health care including dentist clinics (see Appendix 1). Identify and explain two externa...
Identify and explain four factors Rosa and Eduardo should consider when choosing larger premises.
Identify and explain two possible reasons why Thao and Liang have set 'excellent customer service' as the main business objective.
Identify and explain two possible benefits to FF from changes in IT. See Appendix 1.
Identify four stakeholder groups who would want to see FF's accounts and explain why each group would want to see them.
The Government has increased interest rates to reduce inflation. Identify and explain two ways an increase in interest rates might affect FF.
QCH is a multinational company which makes a range of luxury cars. Last year it made a profit of $700m. One of QCH's objectives is to enter new mar...
Josh owns an office cleaning business. He has a number of large and small business customers. Josh employs 6 full-time cleaners who are all given o...
Wilde Soup Stop (WSS) makes a range of soups and hot drinks. It owns 30 shops and has sold its franchise to 10 other shops in country Z. The Market...
GKK makes plastic bottles for a range of products from food to chemicals. GKK buys its raw materials from a low-cost country. GKK's organisational ...
Cheung owns a small retail shop in the city centre selling fashion clothing for children. As it is a competitive market, Cheung knows market resear...
LWM makes car tyres in 15 different sizes using batch production. Last year LWM sold 60 million tyres including 40 million tyres of its best-sellin...
Five years ago Manisha started making cakes for celebrations, such as weddings and birthdays, from her home. Now she has a small shop and 3 employe...
Steppa is a shoe manufacturer in the private sector. Steppa has 200 employees who all receive a high hourly wage rate. The Human Resources Director...
Identify and explain two ways in which TT might achieve quality production.
Identify two motivational theories and explain how TT could use these theories to help increase worker motivation.
Identify two communication barriers which might occur within TT and explain how each barrier might be reduced.
Identify and explain one reason why TT will need short-term finance and one reason why TT will need long-term finance.
Identify two financial statements the directors will need to see before expanding CC. Explain why they will want to see each of these statements.
Identify and explain two reasons why on-the-job training is important for new employees at CC.
Identify and explain one advantage and one disadvantage to CC if it changes to a public limited company.
Fizz Bomm is in the development stage of the product life cycle. Identify and explain four other stages of Fizz Bomm's product life cycle.
GKA is a food retailer. It has 300 shops located in areas where average consumer incomes are low. GKA sells a limited range of own-label products i...
SJD is in the private sector. It makes steel for construction businesses. SJD plans to make 3500 of its 9000 employees redundant. The Operations Di...
IBH is a family-owned private limited company. It makes a range of shoes for children, using batch production. It is a competitive market. Like man...
Ben owns a small gardening business, which he started 15 years ago. Ben believes providing a quality service is important to his success. Ben's bus...