Business A Level Key Terms

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1. What is a variance?

  • Issuing stock from the latest rather than the earliest deliveries.
  • Bringing a product range on the market which has a lot of different varieties.
  • The difference between actual and planned figures which might be favourable or adverse.
  • When a company employees a number of different worked which each have different skills.
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2. What does the term 'overtrading' refer to?

  • When a business only trades with oversees customers.
  • Where a business expands too quickly, putting pressure on short term finance.
  • When a business refuses to trade with oversees customers.
  • When a business ends up with more profit than expected.

3. What is a business plan?

  • Another term for business cards.
  • A written document describing the nature of the business, its objectives, marketing strategy and financial projections.
  • Where a large business can spread risks by investing in a broader product portfolio
  • Where a business expands too quickly, putting pressure on the financial plans.

4. What is the Boston Matrix

  • A method of breaking a market down into groups based on personality, lifestyle and behaviour.
  • A method of analysing the products in a business's portfolio based on relative market share and market growth.
  • A type of market with a large number of relatively small firms selling similar products
  • The collection of information based on opinions, attitudes, beliefs and intentions (Subjective factors)

5. What is 'Public relations'?

  • When the public influences a new range of products.
  • Activities where a business manages its relationships with different parts of the public, for example customers and local communities.
  • Where the owners are personally liable for all debts incurred by a business and personal belongings can be taken to repay debts.
  • The relationship between a product and the public.

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last question is wrong

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