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What are some internal finance sources?

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  • Owners capital
  • Retained profit
  • Sale of assets
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What are some advantages of internal finance?

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  • Capital is available immediately
  • Cheap
  • No need to involve third parties
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What are some drawbacks of internal finance?

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  • Can be limited
  • Not tax deductible
  • Inflexible
  • No inflationary benefits
  • Opportunity cost
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What are some external finance sources?

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  • Family and friends
  • Banks
  • Peer to peer lending
  • Business angels
  • Crowd funding
  • Share capital
  • Venture capital
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What are some factors affecting sales forecasts?

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  • Consumer trends
  • Seasonal variations
  • Fashion
  • Economic growth
  • Inflation
  • Unemployment
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What is time series data?

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Allows businesses to predict future sales from past figures

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what is the formula for break even?

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Fixed costs/Contribution

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What is the purpose of budgets?

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  • Control/monitoring
  • Planning
  • Communication
  • Motivation
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What is gross profit?

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Revenue - cost of sales

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What is operating profit?

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Gross profit - operating expenses

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What is net profit?

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Operating profit - interest and exceptional costs

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what is shareholders equity?

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money owed to the owners of the business

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What is working capital?

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The money needed for the day to day trading of a business

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What is liquidity?

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The ease with which assets can be converted into cash

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What are some reasons for business failure?

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  • Lack of planning
  • Cash flow problems
  • Marketing problems
  • Failure to innovate
  • Lack of business skills
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What is Job production?

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-One product at a time

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What is Batch production?

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-One operation at a time on all units

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What is Cell production?

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Produce a family of products

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What is Flow production?

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Production line

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What are some advantages of JIT?

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  • Money not tied up in stock
  • Reduces waste
  • less stock holding costs
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What are some disadvantages of JIT?

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  • Cannot respond to a sudden demand change
  • Bulk buying advantage lost
  • Late deliveries
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What are some external shocks?

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  • Inflation
  • Deflation
  • Exchange rates
  • Interest rates
  • Taxation
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What are the SMART objective criteria?

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  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Agreed
  • Realistic
  • Time specific
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How do you draw ansoff’s matrix?

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Existing and new market Y axis

Existing and new product X axis

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What is putting an existing product into an existing market
Market penetration
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What is putting a new product in a new market?
Diversification
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What is putting a new product in an existing market?
Product development
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What is putting an existing product into a new market?
Market development
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What are the elements of a pestle analysis?
- Political - Economic - Social - Legal - Environmental
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What are some problems arising from growth?
- Diseconomies of scale - Communication errors - Overtrading
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What are some reasons for staying small?
- Personal service - Owner's preference - Flexibility and efficiency - Lower costs - Low barriers to entry - Small monopolists
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What are some investment appraisal methods?
- Simple payback - ARR - Discounted cash flow
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What are some Influences on business decisions?
- Corporate influence - Corporate culture - Stakeholders - Ethics
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What is a power culture?
Central source of power
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What is a Role culture?
-Well established roles/procedures
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What is a task culture?
Power is given to those who can accomplish tasks
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What is a person culture?
Number of individuals have expertise but don't work together
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What are some stakeholders?
- Owners - Employees - Managers/directors - Customers - Creditors - Suppliers - Government
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What is ethics?
Considering the moral "rights and wrongs" of decisions
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What is net assets?
All assets - all liabilities
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What is the gearing ratio?
Non current liabilities/capital employed X 100
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What is ROCE ratio?
Operating profit / Capital employed X 100
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What is capital employed?
Total assets - Current liabilities

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