Role of Business
Types of Business
Influences in Bus. Environment
Business Growth and Decline
NESA KEY TERMS
100

What is the role of business?

To produce and sell, for a profit that products/services that satisfy individual needs and wants 
100

How many employees would a small business have?

Businesses with 5-19 people 

100

What are the two groups of influences influencing business decisions 

External and Internal 

100

What is the diagram that represents the life of a business

Business Life Cycle 

100

Outline 

Sketch in general terms 

200

What is the difference between a good and a service?

Tangible and intangible 

200

What is a national business 

Business that operates in just one country 

200

Identify two external influences 

Economic, financial, geographic, social, legal,  political, institutional, technological, competitive situation, markets

200

What is the 2nd phase in the Business Life Cycle 

Growth 

200

Provide characteristics and features 

describe 

300

What does SME stand for?

Small to Medium Enterprise

300

What are the five different industry sectors 

1. primary 

2. secondary 

3. Tertiary 

4. Quaternary 

5. Quinary 

300

Identify two internal influences on a business 

products, locations, resources, management and business culture

300

Failure to adapt to changes in the external environment can lead to a 

Business decline
300

Provide reasons in favour

Recommend 

400

What is the following? - a distribution of a company’s profits (either yearly or half-yearly) to shareholders that is calculated as a number of cents per share

Dividend 

400

Which legal structures (2) are unincorporated business entities 

Sole Trader and Partnership

400

What is a stakeholder

Someone or something that has an interest in the business 

400

What are the two types of cessation in a business

voluntary and involuntary 

400

Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

Evaluate 


500

What are two roles of a business?

1. Profit 

2. Employment 

3. Income

4. Choice

5. Innovation 

6. Entrepreneur and risk 

7. Wealth

8. Quality of life 

500

What is the process where a government entity becomes a public entity 

Privatisation

500

Draw and economic cycle on your whiteboard 


500

Draw a Business Life Cycle on your whiteboard 


500

Explain

Cause and Effect

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