Cambridge Past Paper Questions

Frank grows fruit, including oranges, on his farm in country J. He sells his fruit at a market in a local city one day a week. Frank is a sole trad...

Reliable Car Repairs (RCR) is owned by Freya and her brother Kye as a partnership. The business was set up five years ago in city B and repairs a w...

Analyse one advantage and one disadvantage to IPA of changing employment contracts from full-time to zero hours for most production employees.

Analyse two methods to improve IPA's liquidity.

Complete nodes 5 and 6 on the network diagram below (reproduced from the Insert). [Figure 1]

Refer to lines 70–75. Evaluate the most likely impact on IPA of the fiscal and monetary policy changes.

Daniel & Carl for Education (DCE) Daniel and Carl started a company for online teaching, Daniel & Carl for Education (DCE). DCE provides online tut...

'The 4Cs marketing model is more useful for a retail business than the 4Ps marketing model.' Do you agree with this statement? Justify your view.

Explain the possible benefits of mass customisation to a computer manufacturer.

'Money is the most important factor for motivating teachers in a school.' Discuss this view.

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

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.

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

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