1.3 Putting a business idea into practice

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Pregunta 1

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What is an aim?
Respuesta
  • Aim to achieve things in the business
  • An overall goal that a business is trying to achieve
  • Small steps to achieve an overall goal
  • A process of thought when planning within a business

Pregunta 2

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Break-even analysis allows firms to find out the minimum amount they need to sell to get by
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 3

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Choose 4 non-financial aims a business may have
Respuesta
  • Accomplishing a personal challenge
  • Achieving personal satisfaction
  • Gaining independence and control
  • Doing what's right for society
  • Feeling good on a personal level
  • to survive within a market

Pregunta 4

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Choose 5 financial aims a business may have
Respuesta
  • To survive
  • Maximise sales
  • Increase market share
  • Achieve financial security
  • Maximise profit
  • To gain rewards

Pregunta 5

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What is an objective?
Respuesta
  • Specific steps to achieve an aim
  • Selling a certain amount of products
  • Earning a high profit
  • overall goals a business wants to achieve

Pregunta 6

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What is a S.M.A.R.T objective ?
Respuesta
  • Specific. Measurable. Achievable. Relevant. Time Bound
  • Specific. Measurable. Achievable. Realistic. Time Bound
  • Suitable. Measurable. Achievable. Relevant. Time Bound
  • Suitable. Measurable. Achievable. Realistic. Time Bound

Pregunta 7

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Revenue is the Income earned by a business
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

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How do you calculate revenue?
Respuesta
  • Revenue = Quantity Sold x Price
  • Revenue = Price x Fixed Cost
  • Revenue = Quantity Sold x Variable Cost
  • Revenue = Quantity Sold x Fixed Cost

Pregunta 9

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What is a fixed cost?
Respuesta
  • Costs that do not vary with output. They remain the same whether the business produces 100 units or 0 units
  • Costs you have to pay at the beginning of the business
  • Costs you pay every quarter
  • The opposite as a variable cost

Pregunta 10

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What is a variable cost?
Respuesta
  • Increase with the amount of products produced and sold
  • The opposite as a fixed cost
  • Costs that are expensive
  • Costs that you can pay over a period of 2 months

Pregunta 11

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total costs = fixed costs + variable costs
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 12

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How do you calculate total variable cost?
Respuesta
  • Total Variable Cost = quantity sold x variable cost per unit
  • Total Variable Cost = quantity sold + total costs
  • Total Variable Cost = quantity sold / price
  • Total Variable Cost = price / quantity sold

Pregunta 13

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How to calculate Interest (on loans) ?
Respuesta
  • Interest (on loans) = (total repayment - borrowed amount / borrowed amount) x 100
  • Interest (on loans) = total repayment - borrowed amount / borrowed amount
  • Interest (on loans) = (borrowed amount /total repayment - borrowed amount) x 100
  • Interest (on loans) = (total repayment + borrowed amount / borrowed amount) x 100

Pregunta 14

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Profit = Revenue - Costs
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 15

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How to calculate break-even point (in units)?
Respuesta
  • Break-even point (units) = fixed cost / selling price - variable cost
  • Break-even point (units) = variable cost / selling price - fixed cost
  • Break-even point (units) = total costs / selling price - fixed cost
  • Break-even point (units) = total costs / selling price - variable cost

Pregunta 16

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Margin of Safety = Actual sales (or budgeted sales) - Break-even sales
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 17

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The firm will use budgeted sales if it's trying to forecast its future margin of safety. The budgeted sales will be the sales the business expect to make.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 18

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One benefit of a firm knowing its margin of safety for a financial year is...
Respuesta
  • It can see how much its output can fall before the business starts running at a loss
  • It knows the amount of sales it will make
  • It knows how much revenue to expect
  • It knows how much revenue is needed to equal total costs

Pregunta 19

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Net Cash Flow = cash inflows - cash outflows
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 20

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What is cash flow ?
Respuesta
  • The process of cash flowing in and out of a business
  • paying money out of the business
  • A source of income

Pregunta 21

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3 examples of cash outflows are...
Respuesta
  • Paying wages to staff
  • Buying equipment
  • Repayment of loans
  • Receiving a loan payment

Pregunta 22

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3 examples of cash inflows are...
Respuesta
  • Government grants
  • Personal funds
  • Cash sales
  • Costs of making products

Pregunta 23

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BEP is when total costs = total revenue
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 24

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What is the margin of safety?
Respuesta
  • The number of sales above the BEP
  • The amount of revenue left after costs
  • Net cash flow

Pregunta 25

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2 ways of increasing revenue are...
Respuesta
  • Increasing selling price
  • Increasing amount sold by promotions, offers etc.
  • Make more products

Pregunta 26

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4 problems with cash flow forecasting?
Respuesta
  • Sales prove lower than expected
  • customers don't pay up on time
  • cost of production proves higher than expected
  • certain costs aren't included
  • It is difficult to read

Pregunta 27

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5 main causes of cash flow problems?
Respuesta
  • Over spending
  • Getting too big too quick
  • Too much stock
  • Giving too much credit to customers
  • Seasonal demands
  • variable cost too high
  • location of store

Pregunta 28

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5 reasons why cash flow forecasting is important?
Respuesta
  • identifies possible shortfalls in cash balance
  • shows if business can afford to pay suppliers and customers
  • spot problems with customer payments
  • shows bank you've planned your finances
  • external stakeholders (e.g. banks) may require a regular forecast
  • fun to make
  • seems to be professional

Pregunta 29

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Examples of Short-term finance...
Respuesta
  • Trade Credit
  • Overdrafts
  • Short-term bank loan
  • retained profit

Pregunta 30

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Examples of Long-term finance....
Respuesta
  • Long-term loans
  • Personal savings
  • Share Capital
  • Crowd Funding
  • Hire purchase
  • Trade Credit

Pregunta 31

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An overdraft allow a business to take more money out of its bank account than it has paid into it
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 32

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Chose one advantage and one disadvantage of using overdrafts
Respuesta
  • Allow businesses to make payments on time even if they don't have enough cash
  • Have a high interest rate
  • If it isn't paid off, the bank can take some of the businesses assets
  • Have to pay back straight after next payment which will cover amount withdrawn
  • can withdraw as much cash as you want

Pregunta 33

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Chose one advantage and one disadvantage of using personal savings as a source of finance.
Respuesta
  • Owner could end up loosing own money if the business fails
  • only a small amount of money
  • Interest free
  • Can buy everything straight away and expand quick
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