Daily Practice · GCSE Business
March 2012 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2012Identify one document a candidate usually submits when applying for a job.
- 2nd March 2012Identify the term for a qualification or skill that is useful but not required for a role.
- 3rd March 2012Explain one benefit to a business of complying fully with employment and health and safety law.
- 4th March 2012Define legislation.
- 5th March 2012What is meant by a 'representative sample'?
- 6th March 2012Give one reason a fashion product might have a shorter product life cycle than a household appliance.
- 7th March 2012What is meant by 'brand equity'?
- 8th March 2012Explain how trade credit affects a small business's cash flow.
- 9th March 2012Explain one risk of removing all buffer stock as part of lean production.
- 10th March 2012Identify what typically happens to unemployment during a recession.
- 11th March 2012State one characteristic a business might use to segment its market.
- 12th March 2012Explain why a business plan is not a guarantee of success.
- 13th March 2012State one drawback of using an overdraft to solve a cash-flow problem.
- 14th March 2012A business has an opening balance of 1,000 pounds, inflows of 6,000 pounds and outflows of 5,200 pounds for the month. Calculate its closing balance.
- 15th March 2012If fixed costs rise but the contribution per unit stays the same, what happens to the break-even output?
- 16th March 2012Give one indirect cost of training.
- 17th March 2012Give one example of a motivator under Herzberg's theory.
- 18th March 2012State one way a business can benefit from being seen as environmentally friendly.
- 19th March 2012State what pay-per-click (PPC) advertising means.
- 20th March 2012What is search engine optimisation, and what is its purpose in marketing?
- 21st March 2012What is public relations?
- 22nd March 2012State two advantages of flow production.
- 23rd March 2012Explain why product knowledge reduces returns as well as increasing sales.
- 24th March 2012Explain why a change in the law can force a business to change how it operates.
- 25th March 2012Give an example of a want, as opposed to a need.
- 26th March 2012Explain why a business's aims might change after it takes on outside investors.
- 27th March 2012Explain why a profitable business can still fail.
- 28th March 2012A business has revenue of 40,000 pounds and gross profit of 16,000 pounds. Calculate its gross profit margin.
- 29th March 2012Give one reason a business's net profit margin might fall even if its gross profit margin stays the same.
- 30th March 2012Give one advantage of centralisation.
- 31st March 2012Identify what a persistently high labour turnover rate might suggest about a business.