Cambridge Past Paper Questions

Section B Answer one question from this section. Evaluate the usefulness of strategic choice techniques to AP's directors to help them decide betwe...

Section B Answer one question from this section. Assume that AP's directors choose option A. Evaluate how this strategy may be successfully impleme...

Explain why there might be conflict between two stakeholder groups of a large mining company.

'An effective manager must perform all of Mintzberg's roles of management.' Do you agree with this statement? Justify your view.

JF is a private limited company which owns a farm. It produces crops including maize and sunflower seeds. The crops are sold to manufacturers that ...

SSR is a small social enterprise located in a low-income inner city area. SSR employs young people who have not been successful at school. It aims ...

Analyse the benefits to PY of maintaining a centralised organisational structure.

Refer to the network diagram in Fig. 1 and to Table 2 in the Insert.

Recommend whether PY should close the three cafés in the North East of country S. Justify your answer with reference to Table 1 and other information.

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate:

Assess the significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to PY's future profitability.

Yoon has produced a strategic analysis of PY's potential entry into the North American market. Evaluate the usefulness of this strategic analysis t...

Evaluate the importance of business planning to the future success of PY.

'Using the Internet for marketing is essential to the success of a smartphone retailer.' Do you agree with this statement? Justify your view.

Bob's Furniture (BF) Bob is a carpenter who uses job production to make furniture using premium materials. Each item of furniture is priced using ...

Joe's Smoothies (JS) Joe graduated with a Business degree. He then spent a year travelling around Asia. He discovered a local drink. This was a fr...

Analyse the likely impact of changes in interest rates on FE.

Evaluate changes to the marketing strategy of FE needed to increase its market share of the household market for wind turbines.

Evaluate the significance of workforce planning to FE's future success.

Evaluate the usefulness of decision tree analysis to FE's Directors when making the strategic choice between options A and B.

Discuss the importance of FE's Directors developing a detailed corporate plan before implementing strategies for future growth.

Explain the effects on a business of having a high level of working capital.

A furniture manufacturer is planning to introduce CAD and CAM into the production process. Discuss the extent to which this could make the business...

Flora is a self employed personal trainer and she trades as Flora's Fitness (FF). She invested $10000 as start-up capital. She has seen reports sho...

FB is a private limited company that produces premium meat-free burgers. FB has two shareholders, Bill and Sanjay. They each own 50% of the shares....

Analyse the benefits to BFB of continuing with a centralised structure as the business develops.

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate the:

Refer to Table 2 and any other information. Evaluate the likely impact on BFB's future decisions of changes in external influences.

Evaluate the importance of marketing planning to the success of BFB's new products.

Evaluate the importance to BFB of strategic analysis when making strategic decisions.

Evaluate the usefulness to BFB of focusing only on Force Field Analysis when choosing between strategic options.