Daily Practice · GCSE Business
January 1996 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1996State one way a business might respond to falling consumer spending during a recession.
- 2nd January 1996Explain why a business should carry out market research before launching a new product.
- 3rd January 1996State one section usually included in a business plan.
- 4th January 1996Give one solution a business could use if late-paying customers are causing its cash-flow problem.
- 5th January 1996Why might a business prepare a cash-flow forecast even if it expects to be profitable for the year?
- 6th January 1996A business's selling price is 15 pounds and variable cost per unit is 9 pounds. Calculate the contribution per unit.
- 7th January 1996State one benefit of training to a business.
- 8th January 1996Identify which category opportunities for promotion belongs to under Herzberg's theory.
- 9th January 1996Give one reason ethical sourcing can increase a business's costs.
- 10th January 1996Give one drawback of e-commerce for a business.
- 11th January 1996Give one cost or resource a business needs in order to run digital marketing effectively.
- 12th January 1996State one risk of using frequent sales promotions such as heavy discounting.
- 13th January 1996Define job production and give one example.
- 14th January 1996Why is a single poor service experience more damaging online than in a shop?
- 15th January 1996State one reason a change in consumer tastes might force a food business to change its menu.
- 16th January 1996A market trader sells umbrellas only on days when rain is forecast. Suggest what gap in the market they are meeting.
- 17th January 1996Give an example of a SMART objective for a cafe aiming to grow.
- 18th January 1996State one internal cause of new business failure.
- 19th January 1996A business has revenue of 90,000 pounds and net profit of 18,000 pounds. Calculate its net profit margin.
- 20th January 1996Name one limitation of using ratio analysis to judge business performance.
- 21st January 1996Identify one likely effect of delayering on remaining managers' span of control.
- 22nd January 1996Give one non-pay reason an employee might leave a job.
- 23rd January 1996State the length of the short-term right to reject faulty goods for a full refund.
- 24th January 1996Define an import.
- 25th January 1996Using the same order, if the pound then depreciates to 1 pound = 1.00 euro, calculate the new cost in pounds and state whether the importer is better or worse off.
- 26th January 1996Give one example of a 'Product' decision, other than its physical features.
- 27th January 1996State one reason a business selling in a highly price-sensitive, budget market might deliberately limit a product's aesthetics.
- 28th January 1996Define lead time.
- 29th January 1996List five criteria a business uses to choose a supplier.
- 30th January 1996Give one example of an economy of scale.
- 31st January 1996State one risk of trying to compete only by cutting price rather than adding genuine value.