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Why do new business ideas come about?

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🟡products become obsolete
🟡changes in technology
🟡change in customer wants

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Hat are the two types of business ideas

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💡 adapting an existing product

💡original ideas

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What are some risks of starting a new business?

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🔹Failure
🔹Financial loss
🔹Lack of security

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What may be some rewards for entrepreneurs?

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🔵purse an interest
🔵dissatisfaction with current job
🔵financial rewards
🔵be their own boss

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What purpose do businesses serve?

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🟣goods
🟣services
🟣goods & services eg:Restaurants
🟣 delivery

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What do businesses do serve..

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🟤peoples wants
🟤peoples needs

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What is enterprise?

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🔴a business
🔴qualities
🔴factor of production
(Entrepreneurial activity)

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How can value be added to a product ?

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🔸quality
🔸USP
🔸convenience
🔸branding
🔸design

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What are some ways to minimise risks?

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Market research
Revenue forecasts

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Branding

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🔺defines it’s values
🔺creates customer loyalty , which can increase market share
🔺🔺🔺🔺

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E-commerce/M commerce

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🟡low start up costs
🟡ideas straight to the marketplace
🟡do not need their own payment platform

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What quality does an entrepreneur hold?

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🔷taking risks
🔷identifying business opportunities

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What are some roles of an entrepreneur ?

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🟣innovation
🟣organised
🟣willingness to take risks
🟣hardworking

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What are the 4 factors of production?

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◾️enterprising
◾️capital
◾️land
◾️labour

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What are some customer needs?

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🟢convenience
🟢quality
🟢price
🟢choice

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What is the importance of satisfying customer needs?

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🔹they will buy
🔹increase in sales and customer satisfaction

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What are some advantages of being market driven?

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🟡avoid costly mistakes
🟡find the correct marketing mix
🟡allows them to be competitive

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What is found in market research?

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🔴demand
🔴competition
🔴target market

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What is qualitative research?

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Opinions and written stuff

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What is quantitative research?

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Factual quantified information

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What is market segmentation?

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Dividing potential customers into different groups

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Why do business use market segmentation?

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⚫️choosing a marketing mix
⚫️choosing promotion
⚫️market mapping

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What are variables in segmentation?

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🟦age
🟦location
🟦income
🟦gender

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Why is market mapping used

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To identify a gap in the market by looking at what competitors have to offer

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What can businesses compete on?

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🟣location
🟣product range
🟣customer service
🟣price

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26
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Why is the impact of high competition?

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Price
Quality

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27
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What is primary research?

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Market research that is done by it’s own firm for its own use. The research can tailor the business’s exact needs

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What are examples of primary research?

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🔹the likert scale
🔹questionnaires, surveys , interviews

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What is secondary market research ?

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A firm collecting information on research that has been performed by other people.
It is used for an entire market and is cheap

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What is the difference between an aim & an objective

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Aim = ultimate purpose
Objective =goals in order to achieve the aim
An objective is normally more specific

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Name some aims

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Survival
Profit maximisation
Maximise shareholder value (business worth)

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Name some objectives

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Increase market share
Growth
Customer satisfaction
Social and ethical objectives

33
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What influences a firm’s objectives

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🟨type of business
🟨size
🟨competition

34
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What is revenue?

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Source of income earned by the sales
Number of sales✖️sale price

35
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What are fixed costs?

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Costs that do not vary as the company changes it’s output
Eg: rent, insurance, salaries

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What are variables costs?

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Costs that change directly with output
Eg: wages for factory labour, raw material, transport costs

37
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What is profit?

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The amount of money a business makes taking costs into account
Profit= revenue➖total costs

38
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Total costs

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= fixed costs➕variable costs

39
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What is average unit cost?

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Total cost ➗number of units produced

40
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What is interest?

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Extra amount you pay in the loan
Interest =interest rate✖️size of the loan

41
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What is the break even point?

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The revenue = total cost’s

42
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What is the margin of safety?

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The gap between the actual output and the break even point

43
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What are limitations to the break even analysis?

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🟤assumes the amount of sales 🟤assumes the firm will not change the price when output changes

44
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What is cash inflow and outflow

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The the cash coming into the business. The cash going out of the business

45
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What is net cash flow?

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Cash inflow ➖cash outflow

46
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What is opening balance?

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The amount of cash that the business starts to trade with

47
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What is closing balance?

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The amount of cash that the bush finished trading with
Closing balance = opening balance ➕net cash flow

48
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What is a liquidity problem?

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Business runs out of cash in the short term

49
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What are the consequences of cash flow problems?

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Won’t be able to pay:
🔹creditors (people who give loan) will charge a higher invest in the future
🔹suppliers relationship
🔹employees might leave

50
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How can you solve cash flow problems?

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🟤increase cash inflows, more sales, sell assets
🟤reduce outflows, delay
🟤reschedule payments

51
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What are some short term methods of finance?

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🟪trade credit, delaying payment
🟪hire purchases, pay in Installment
🟪overdraft
🟪🟪

52
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What are some long term methods of finance?

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🟢share capital (sell shares for money
🟢retained profit
🟢loans/mortgages
🟢crowdfunding
🟢venture capital,
🟢personal savings

53
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What are some advantages for sole traders?

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✔️easy to set up
✔️be your own boss
✔️gets all profit
✔️control

54
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What are some disadvantages of being a sole trader?

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❌have to make decisions alone
❌hard to raise finance
❌hard to retain employees

55
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What are some advantages of partnerships?

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✔️more experience /ideas
✔️easier to raise money
✔️good employees can be retained

56
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What are some disadvantages of partnerships?

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❌shared profit
❌disagreements
❌taking responsibility for other’s faults

57
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What are limited companies?

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Businesses owned by shareholders.
Only legally responsible for the amount they have invested

58
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What is a private limited company?

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Ownership of shares is restricted , owners have a lot of control.
There is an upfront fee however

59
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What are public limited companies?

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They sell their shares on the stock exchange, very fast growth. However owners do it have a large say

60
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What is unlimited liability?

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You can lose more than you invested including personal assets.
Eg: sole traders and partnerships

61
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What are some advantages and disadvantages of limited liability?

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✅Easier access to finance
❌need to incorporate which can be expensive/time consuming

62
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What is an unincorporated association?

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A non profit organisation but with unlimited liability

63
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What is franchising?

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When a company gives someone the right to sell its products and use it’s trademark for a fee

64
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What are some advantages and disadvantages of franchising?

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❌do not have full control
❌have to pay a fee
✅increases brand awareness ✅marketing and brand name already established
✅do not need large amounts of investment

65
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What factors affect the business location?

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🟣available of raw material
🟣labour nationally
🟣labour internationally
🟣competition
🟣rent
🟣location of the market

66
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What are the marketing mix ?

A

🅿️rice
🅿️roduct
🅿️romotion
🅿️lace

67
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Why do businesses create plans?

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🔴important for new business 🔴raising finance
🔴setting objectives
🔴business organisation

68
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What are the main features of a business plan?

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🔹mission statement 🔹products/services
🔹market analysis
🔹organisation and management team
🔹production details
🔹finance
🔹summary

69
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How do you calculate break even?

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Fixed costs ➗(selling price ➖fixed costs)

70
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How do changes in technology provide new business opportunities?

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🔺they make expensive technology affordable
🔺social media
🔺e commerce /m commerce

71
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How is expensive technology becoming affordable beneficial for entrepreneurs?

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The new technologies can be used in the company’s products and services. Reducing the costs for manufacturing

72
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How is E and M commerce beneficial to entrepreneurs?

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The barriers/risks for starting a business have decreased , as rent for a physical place is not required. Instead new business ideas can be brought straight to the market place.

73
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How is social media beneficial to entrepreneurs?

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Inexpensive way to promote a business, interacting with existing and potential customers. Reduce the work involved in marketing.

74
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How do businesses keep up to date with the changes in consumer wants?

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Surveys , feedback questionnaires, data, demographic data

75
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Why might a business adapt one of it’s existing products?

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Cultural reasons(vegan burgers) , new trends (changing colour of clothes),

76
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What is meant by the dynamic nature of a business?

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