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ZIMBABWE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

BUSINESS STUDIES 6025/1
PAPER 1

NOVEMBER 2019 SESSION 3 hours

Additional matenals:
Answet paper

TIME 3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer
paper/answer booklet.

Answer all questions
Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided.

If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
You are advised to spend not more than 2 hours on Section A.

The businesses described in this paper are entirely fictitious.

You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers.

Calculators may be used.

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Copyright: Zimbabwe School Examinations Council, N2019.
©ZIMSEC N2019

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Section A [70 Marks]

Answer all questions.

State three ways the government can use to assist small firms.

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Identify any two forms of business growth. _

Explain the benefits to your country of joining economic groupings.
What is target marketing?

Give two qualitative factors which may lead to relocation of a firm.
List any two factors that influence pricing decisions.

Distinguish between niche marketing and mass marketing.

Name any two users of financial statements.

Distinguish between debt and equity.

State any two non-financial motivators.

Explain the importance of the Hawthome effect to a firm’s management.
Define the following words as used in network analysis:

(i) node,

(ii) —_ activity.

A project manager came up with the following network diagram.

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Assess the importance of internal recruitment to an organisation.

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Outline the benefits of delayering to an organisation?
To what extent is an organisational chart of significance to a business?

Give one advantage and one disadvantage of grapevine to an
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Analyse the importance of two-way communication in business.
State the purposes of working capital to a business.

To what extent are budgets important to a large business?

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Bricks 2020 Ltd is an incorporated company based in Harare. It produces over 50 000 special face
bricks per day. The firm employs 24 full time workers. The firm’s capacity utilisation is able to
satisfy current demand. Recently the local council made available many housing stands to residents.
Coupled with an increase in incomes, demand for special face bricks increased.

Daily orders placed by construction firms now surpassed the firm’s daily production levels. This
forced the production manager to call for a departmental meeting to map the way forward. A number
of possible solutions were raised which included:

1. employing additional workers and
2. computerising the production process.

The outcome of the meeting was communicated to the top management through a comprehensive
report.

The production manager was invited by top management to justify the options. During the meeting
the production manager preferred the option of computerisation of the production process. According
to him this will allow the firm to take advantage of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer
Aided Manufacturing (CAM). This he argued will improve quality of bricks produced and drastically
increase production levels.

The production manager, however, highlighted that this would need a high capital outlay. The finance
director who was also present, indicated that the funds could not be raised internal ly because of the
nature of the program which is highly capital intensive.

13° (a) (i)_—_—Identify two communication methods used in the case study. [2]

(ii) _ State one advantage of each method identified in 13(a)(i) above. [2]
(b) Outline the costs of establishing a brick man

community. ufacturing plant to the a
(c) Explain the importance to the firm of being an incorporated business [4]
14 _ To what extentis the introduction of Comp, p :
of importance to Bricks 2020 Ltd? me ded Manufacturing (CAM) [10]

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