Topic based past paper questions:
2024
Jan -
01.a) USP
b) Average Sales revenue calculation
c) Advantages of Retained Profits
d) Advantages of leasing
e) Business failiure
02.a) Complementary goods
b) Costs calculation
c) Advantages of Business plan
d) sales forecast
e) Changes in Interest rates
03.Product lead in times or Quality management for competitive advantage
June -
01.a) Social Media
b) Percentage change in revenue
c) Reasons for Lifestyle business
d) Benefits of Budgeting
e) Benefits of using Overdrafts as a method of finance
02.a) Economic Variables
b) Gross profit margin
c) Ways to reduce capacity utilization
d) Difficulties of health and safety legislations
e) Impact of demand
03.Spending on advertising or selling to new markets to increase profits
Oct -
01.a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
02.a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
03.
2023
Jan -
01.a) Personal savings
b) Change in contribution affect break even point
c) Sales forecasts
d) Competition
e) Benefits of labour intensive production
02.a) Survey
b) Number of students calculation
c) Business cycle
d) Minimum wage
e) Benefits of venture capital as a source of finance
03.Liquidity and working capital
June -
01.a) Franchising
b) Variance in sales revenue
c) Difference in cash and profit
d) Benefits of taxation
e) Benefits of zero based marketing budget
02.a) Production
b) Supply calculation
c) Limitations of breakeven analysis
d) appreciation in currency
e) Benefits of capital intensive production
03.Sales of assets or retained profits
Oct -
01.a) Quality
b) Capacity utilization
c) Capacity underutilization
d) Margin of safety
e) Sales revenue
02.a) Brand
b) Registered trademark
c) Ways to remain competitive
d) Benefits of Public limited companies
e) Waste minimization
03.Internal or external causes of business failiure
2022
Jan -
01.a) Demand
b) Operating profit
c) Ways to reduce competition
d) Internal causes of business failure
e) Benefits of online business
02.a) Social enterprise
b) Cashflow
c) Problems of cash flow forecasts
d) Methods of finance
e) Environmental protection legislations
03.Increase in efficiency
June -
01.a) Revenue
b) Net profit margin
c) Adv of cell production
d) Quality circles
e) Prices affecting the SOCI
02.a) Budget
b) Avg price
c) Factors affecting sales forecasts
d) Copyright
e) Effective advertising media
03.Bank loan or peer to peer lending
Oct -
01.a) Inventory
b) Change in demand
c) Disadv of job production
d) Problems with suppliers
e) Benefits of becoming a Pvt Ltd company
02.a) Supply
b) Total variable costs
c) Business plan
d) Sales forecasts
e) Ways to increase its profits
03.Economic Influences
2021
Jan -
01.a) SOCI
b) Change in contribution
c) Inventory control
d) Variance analysis
e) Adv of batch production
02.a) Bank loan
b) Sales volume
c) Adv of sole trader
d) Health and safety legislation
e) Business plan
03.Market conditions
June -
01.a) Partnerships
b) Comeptition
c) Employee protection legislation
d) Liquidity
e) Employee motivation
02.a) Market conditions
b) Net profit
c) Efficiency
d) Share capital as a source of finance
e) Business cycle
03.Margin of safety
Oct -
01.a) Competitive market
b) Unemployment
c) Disadv of over utilization of capacity
d) Sales forecasts
e) Method of finance
02.a) Inflation
b) Acid test ratio
c) Competition
d) Labour productivity
e) Cash flow forecasts
03.Quality assurance or Quality control
2020
Jan -
01.a) Profit
b) Break even point
c) Poor inventory control
d) Sales forecasts
e) Method of finance
02.a) Business plan
b) Capacity utilization
c) Benefits of cash flow forecasts
d) Inflation
e) Profitability
03.Stock market
May/Oct -
01.a) Health and safety
b) Total avg cost
c) Problem of JIT
d) Importance of TQM
e) Changes in interest rates
02.a) Break even
b) Operating profit
c) Lifestyle business
d) Personal savings as a method of finance
e) Business failure
03.Zero based budget or Historical budget
2019
Jan -
01.a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
02.a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
03.
June -
01.a) Venture capital
b) Gross profit
c) Adv of business plan
d) Adv of limited liability
e) Competition
02.a) Consumer trends
b) Gross profit
c) Quality management
d) Budgeting
e) Legislations
03.Increase in demand with depreciation of currency
Oct -
01.a) Taxation
b) Labour intensive
c) Competition
d) Labour intensive methods
e) Liquidity
02.a) Productivity
b) Sales revenue
c) Sales forecasts
d) Sales volume
e) Kaizen
03.Method of finance
