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October 2017 5-a-day

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October 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in October 2017

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 2017State one interest a supplier has in the businesses it supplies.
  2. 2nd October 2017Define risk in the context of enterprise.
  3. 3rd October 2017A business leases a delivery van instead of buying it. Give one advantage of leasing over buying.
  4. 4th October 2017What is capital expenditure?
  5. 5th October 2017Identify one document a candidate usually submits when applying for a job.
  6. 6th October 2017Identify the term for a qualification or skill that is useful but not required for a role.
  7. 7th October 2017Explain one benefit to a business of complying fully with employment and health and safety law.
  8. 8th October 2017Define legislation.
  9. 9th October 2017State one reason a sample of 20 people, all surveyed outside the same shop, might produce unreliable data.
  10. 10th October 2017Give one reason a fashion product might have a shorter product life cycle than a household appliance.
  11. 11th October 2017What is meant by 'brand equity'?
  12. 12th October 2017Explain how trade credit affects a small business's cash flow.
  13. 13th October 2017Explain one risk of removing all buffer stock as part of lean production.
  14. 14th October 2017Give one way rising consumer confidence in a boom might affect a business's decisions.
  15. 15th October 2017Give one disadvantage of relying only on secondary market research.
  16. 16th October 2017Identify one external stakeholder who might ask to see a business plan before providing finance.
  17. 17th October 2017State one drawback of using an overdraft to solve a cash-flow problem.
  18. 18th October 2017A 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.
  19. 19th October 2017If fixed costs rise but the contribution per unit stays the same, what happens to the break-even output?
  20. 20th October 2017Give one indirect cost of training.
  21. 21st October 2017Give one example of a motivator under Herzberg's theory.
  22. 22nd October 2017State one way a business can benefit from being seen as environmentally friendly.
  23. 23rd October 2017State what pay-per-click (PPC) advertising means.
  24. 24th October 2017What is search engine optimisation, and what is its purpose in marketing?
  25. 25th October 2017What is public relations?
  26. 26th October 2017State two advantages of flow production.
  27. 27th October 2017Explain why product knowledge reduces returns as well as increasing sales.
  28. 28th October 2017State one type of external change that can affect how a business operates.
  29. 29th October 2017Give an example of a want, as opposed to a need.
  30. 30th October 2017Explain why a business's aims might change after it takes on outside investors.
  31. 31st October 2017Identify the term for a business having too little start-up finance to survive its early months.