Daily Practice · GCSE Business
October 2015 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2015State one way an entrepreneur could generate a business idea without inventing something completely new.
- 2nd October 2015Name one stakeholder group, other than shareholders and employees, that a new factory would affect.
- 3rd October 2015Define reward in the context of enterprise.
- 4th October 2015Why might a sole trader be unable to raise finance through share capital?
- 5th October 2015On which financial statement does capital expenditure appear, and as what?
- 6th October 2015State one reason a business might use a recruitment agency rather than advertise a vacancy itself.
- 7th October 2015State the difference between a job description and a person specification.
- 8th October 2015State one duty an employer has under health and safety law.
- 9th October 2015Give one cost to a business of complying with new legislation.
- 10th October 2015A business segments its market by income. Give one product example that suits income-based segmentation.
- 11th October 2015During which stage of the product life cycle are sales typically at their highest?
- 12th October 2015Give one way a business builds brand recognition through the marketing mix, other than the product itself.
- 13th October 2015Explain why a supplier's poor quality is a problem even when the business itself checks the goods.
- 14th October 2015Define lean production.
- 15th October 2015Identify what typically happens to unemployment during a recession.
- 16th October 2015State one characteristic a business might use to segment its market.
- 17th October 2015Explain why a business plan is not a guarantee of success.
- 18th October 2015Give one consequence a business could face if it runs out of cash to pay its suppliers.
- 19th October 2015What becomes the opening balance for April if a business's closing balance for March is 1,300 pounds?
- 20th October 2015Give one possible drawback of raising the selling price to lower the break-even output.
- 21st October 2015Explain one reason training can improve staff motivation.
- 22nd October 2015State who developed the two-factor theory of motivation.
- 23rd October 2015State one example of an unethical business practice.
- 24th October 2015Explain what click-through rate measures.
- 25th October 2015Why can online price comparison tools increase competition between businesses?
- 26th October 2015Give one example of a sales promotion technique.
- 27th October 2015Explain one drawback of batch production.
- 28th October 2015Explain why keeping an existing customer is usually cheaper than winning a new one.
- 29th October 2015Explain why a change in the law can force a business to change how it operates.
- 30th October 2015Identify whether a haircut is a good or a service.
- 31st October 2015What does the M stand for in a SMART objective?