What is the role of business?
How many employees would a small business have?
Businesses with 5-19 people
What are the two groups of influences influencing business decisions
External and Internal
What is the diagram that represents the life of a business
Business Life Cycle
Outline
Sketch in general terms
What is the difference between a good and a service?
Tangible and intangible
What is a national business
Business that operates in just one country
Identify two external influences
Economic, financial, geographic, social, legal, political, institutional, technological, competitive situation, markets
What is the 2nd phase in the Business Life Cycle
Growth
Provide characteristics and features
describe
What does SME stand for?
Small to Medium Enterprise
What are the five different industry sectors
1. primary
2. secondary
3. Tertiary
4. Quaternary
5. Quinary
Identify two internal influences on a business
products, locations, resources, management and business culture
Failure to adapt to changes in the external environment can lead to a
Provide reasons in favour
Recommend
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
Which legal structures (2) are unincorporated business entities
Sole Trader and Partnership
What is a stakeholder
Someone or something that has an interest in the business
What are the two types of cessation in a business
voluntary and involuntary
Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of
Evaluate
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
What is the process where a government entity becomes a public entity
Privatisation
Draw and economic cycle on your whiteboard
Draw a Business Life Cycle on your whiteboard
Explain
Cause and Effect