Business Studies

Cards (20)

  • Sole trader - one person owns the business
  • Partnership - two or more people own the business
  • Stakeholders are people or groups that have an interest in the business and its performance.
  • Capacity: the maximum output a factory or business can produce or sell
  • Organic growth is the growth of a business through internal expansion, such as by opening new branches or by increasing the number of employees.
  • External growth is the growth of the business through acquisition or merger
  • Mergers occur when two companies join together to form a larger company
  • a takeover is when a business takes a majority stake in another business
  • Market segmentation is the process of dividing a market into smaller groups of customers with similar needs and characteristics
  • Primary research is the first hand information gathered by the researcher. It is usually done by asking questions to the customers or the target market.
  • breaking even is when business make neither a profit or a loss
  • Cashflow is the movement of cash in and out of the business
  • Product life cycle traces the journey of a product from its launch and its development to its removal from the market
  • Extension strategies are actions businesses take to increase the demand and sales of a product
  • Unique selling point: A feature or quality that makes a product or service stand out from the competition
  • Copyright: provides legal protection for the original expression of ideas in a creative work from being produced by others
  • methods used by a business to change the price to gain edge over competitors
    Pricing Strategies
  • The four P’s:
    •Price
    •Product
    •Place
    •promotion
  • Ensuring that finished products meet the standards that are expected
    Quality control
  • A section of a market that is controlled by a particular business
    Market Share