Business A level Quiz (BUSS2)

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A levels Business Studies Test sobre Business A level Quiz (BUSS2), creado por m_hassell1 el 24/05/2015.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Name the Calculation for Gross Profit ?
Respuesta
  • Margin = Gross Profit (SP-VC) / Revenue X 100
  • Margin = Gross Profit (SP-VC) / Revenue

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
What is the calculation for net profit?
Respuesta
  • TR - (TVC+TC) / Revenue X 100
  • TR - (VC+TC) / Revenue X 100

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
How do you increase a businesses profitability?
Respuesta
  • Switch Suppliers
  • Sell your Assets
  • Reduce Expenses
  • BE = Profit Margin
  • Alter your Pricing Strategy

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Name 4 causes of a business' failure, when cash flow issues occur
Respuesta
  • Seasonal Demand
  • Problem Child Products
  • Sales Revenue is Overestimated
  • Credit Sales
  • Stock Is all in the businesses hands
  • Too Many Staff
  • Little Profit

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What is the definition of a budget? Give two benefits.
Respuesta
  • A Financial Plan + Motivational and Monitors a businesses progress
  • A Cash Flow Plan + Realistic Overviews and Look at a businesses inflows and outflows of cash
  • A Financial Plan + Money motivates employees

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
Name two drawbacks of a budget?
Respuesta
  • Start Ups lack realism (Not realistic demands)
  • Situations are always tangible
  • Unable to gather all the information from this
  • Unclear / Inaccuracies are key to business failure

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
What is the calculation for labour productivity?
Respuesta
  • LP = Actual Output (Units Produced) / Number of Employees
  • LP = Output / Number of Units Produced

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What is the calculation for labour turnover?
Respuesta
  • LT = Number of Employees Leaving / Total Number of Employees X 100
  • LT = Number of Employees / Total Number of Employees Leaving

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
What is delegation?
Respuesta
  • The processing of tasks down the hierarchy from a manager to the shop floor
  • The processing of tasks down the hierarchy

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
What is the span of control?
Respuesta
  • The number of employees that the manager is responsible for
  • The number of employees being supervised
  • The number of employees working under the manager

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
Name the two hierarchy structures? How does it effect staff?
Respuesta
  • Tall + Specialises in promotions and high in opportunities, but decision making is slow
  • Flat + Quick decision makings, but hardly any opportunities to climb the hierarchy
  • High + Promotions aren't common but you have a higher wage structure
  • Low + Better Communication between staff, better relationships and a higher productivity.

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
Name four ways of solving cash flow issues?
Respuesta
  • Sale of Assets
  • Sale and Leaseback
  • Take Less Cash Out of The Business
  • Bank Overdraft
  • Bank Loan
  • Share Capital
  • Sale and Buyback
  • Business Investors
  • Business Angels

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
What is Internal Recruitment?
Respuesta
  • This is when existing employees apply for a job in the company they are working for
  • This is when employees recommend one of their friends for the job

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
What is external recruitment?
Respuesta
  • This is when people are gathered from outside the company, and the bosses do not know the person
  • This is when people are brought in from another country for employment in the UK

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
Choose two motivational theorists from this list.
Respuesta
  • Taylor - Money Motivates employees to work harder and produce more products
  • Maslow - Hierarchy of Needs - People are more satisfied when they move up the scale of employment
  • Herzberg - Hygiene V. Motivators (Money, Needs, Etc)
  • Mayo - Working in teams motivates more than money

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
Name the calculation for capacity utilisation?
Respuesta
  • Actual Output Per Annum / Max Output Per Annum X 100
  • Actual Output Per Annum / Output Per Annum

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
Name 3 impacts of under utilisation?
Respuesta
  • Higher Unit Costs
  • Lower Profits
  • Negative Image
  • Loss Of Reputation
  • Raising Finance
  • Trading Falls

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
What is Total Quality Management?
Respuesta
  • A Japanese Concept introduced to minimise waste and focus on efficiency, increases sales, and creates a USP
  • A German Concept introduced to focus on efficiency and creates a USP
  • A Chinese Concept, that minimises waste and improves your reputation

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
What are the downfalls of TQM?
Respuesta
  • Costs
  • Training
  • Disruption of Production
  • Too many products
  • Could lead to inaccuracies
  • Too many Staff Issues

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
What is customer service?
Respuesta
  • Giving Customers the correct service or product of high quality and enhances your reputation
  • Giving customers the service they desire to fix or mend broken items or amend services.
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