Daily Practice · GCSE Business
October 2025 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2025A business leases a delivery van instead of buying it. Give one advantage of leasing over buying.
- 2nd October 2025Why does the classification of an item as capital or revenue expenditure matter for calculating that year's profit?
- 3rd October 2025State the difference between recruitment and selection.
- 4th October 2025Identify one item typically found in a job description.
- 5th October 2025State what the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage are.
- 6th October 2025State one area of business legislation.
- 7th October 2025State one reason a sample of 20 people, all surveyed outside the same shop, might produce unreliable data.
- 8th October 2025Why is cash flow often negative during the introduction stage?
- 9th October 2025State one risk of a poorly judged brand extension.
- 10th October 2025Define supply chain.
- 11th October 2025Why does higher productivity usually reduce unit cost?
- 12th October 2025State the three stages of the economic, or business, cycle referred to in this topic.
- 13th October 2025State the difference between primary and secondary market research.
- 14th October 2025Give one piece of information a bank would want to see in a business plan before agreeing a loan.
- 15th October 2025What is overtrading?
- 16th October 2025What is the difference between a cash inflow and a cash outflow?
- 17th October 2025A business's contribution per unit is 10 pounds and its fixed costs are 5,000 pounds. Calculate its break-even output.
- 18th October 2025State the difference between training and development.
- 19th October 2025Identify one example of a hygiene factor.
- 20th October 2025Explain why there can be a trade-off between acting ethically and making a profit.
- 21st October 2025Define e-commerce.
- 22nd October 2025What is e-commerce?
- 23rd October 2025What is the difference between above the line and below the line promotion?
- 24th October 2025Explain why flow production is risky if demand is unpredictable.
- 25th October 2025Give three examples of after-sales service.
- 26th October 2025Identify one risk to a business that fails to adapt to a significant change in its external environment.
- 27th October 2025State one reason why entrepreneurs take on risk when starting a business.
- 28th October 2025Identify one common aim of a brand new start-up business.
- 29th October 2025State one action a new business owner could take to reduce the risk of cash-flow problems.
- 30th October 2025A business calculates a net profit margin of 45% and a gross profit margin of 30% for the same year. Explain why this result must be wrong.
- 31st October 2025What does the gross profit margin measure?