Business Studies Module 6
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Give 2 sources of internal finance
Owners' personal funds, reinvested profit, selling assets
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What is reinvested (retained) profit?
Profit saved from a previous year, spent on the business again
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Give 2 sources of external finance
Bank loans, selling shares, hire purchase, leasing, government grants, trade credit, venture capital
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What is hire purchase?
When a business buys an asset and pays for it in installments (e.g. monthly) until the asset belongs to the business indefinitely
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What is leasing?
Renting
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What is trade credit?
Purchasing an asset now but not paying until later
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What is a venture capital?
A person that will exchange money in return for shares (part of the ownership) in a business
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Give an advantage of internal finance
They do not need to be paid back
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Give a disadvantage of internal finance
Limited. E.g. owner might not have money to put in
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Give a disadvantage of external sources of finance
They usually have to be paid back, usually with interest on top
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Give 4 factors a business must consider when choosing a source of finance
Interest rates, time to pay back, amount of money needed, availability, purpose of money, type of liability that the business itself has
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Why might a business with unlimited liability not use large sums of external finance?
The owners would be personally responsible for repaying borrowed money
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Give 3 things in a business plan
Business name/address, ownership status, product/service, current and forecast financial information, market research
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What is meant by ownership status?
Whether the business is sole trader, partnership etc. As well as who the owners are
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Give 2 things included in current and forecast financial information
Cash flow forecast, profit and loss account and balance sheet
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What is cash inflow?
Monet that moves into a business (e.g. revenue - turnover is the same as revenue)
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What is a cash flow forecast?
A prediction of money moving in and out of a business over a period of time
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What is net cash flow?
Total inflows - Total outflows
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What is cash outflow?
Any money leaving a business (e.g. any expenses such as electricity bill)
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What is the formula for closing bank balance?
Net cash flow + opening bank balance
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Give 2 ways a business can improvecash flow
Increase revenue, decrease costs
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Give 1 way a business can increase revenue
Use marketing mix (4 Ps) (this might increase costs)
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Give 2 ways a business can decrease costs
Cheaper suppliers (=poorer quality)
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What is gross profit?
Money the business makes from directly selling its products
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What is net profit?
The overall profit for a business after cost of production and other expenses have been taken away
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What is the formula for gross profit?
Sales revenue - cost of sales
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What is the formula for net profit?
Gross profit - other expenses
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What is profit percentage used to measure?
How successful a business is
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Gross profit percentage = ....
(Gross profit / Sales revenue)*100
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Net profit percentage = ....
(Net profit / Sales revenue)*100
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Give 1 thing a balance sheet can tell you about a business
Value of the business
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What is a fixed asset?
A long term asset that the business will own for more than a year
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What is a current liability?
Any liabilities that are not going to last more than a year - short term
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What are assets?
Items that the business owns
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Give 2 examples of fixed assets
Land, buildings, machinery, vehicles
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Give 2 examples of current assets
Cash, stock, debtors
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Who are debtors?
People/businesses who owe the business money
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Give 2 examples of a current liability
Short term loans, overdrafts, creditors
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What is an overdraft
When the bank allows you to borrow money than you have in your account for a short period of time but must be paid back with interest
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What are creditors?
People the business owes money to (usually suppliers)
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Give an example of a long term liability
Long term loan
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Net current assets = ....
Current assets - current liabilities
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Net assets = ...
Net current assets - long term liabilities
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What is working capital?
Money for day to day use of a business. It has the same value as net current assets
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Give 2 ways we can see how a business is performing
Profit/loss over a period of time, profit/sales/aims targets have been met, performance against other similar businesses
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is reinvested (retained) profit?
Back
Profit saved from a previous year, spent on the business again
Card 3
Front
Give 2 sources of external finance
Back
Card 4
Front
What is hire purchase?
Back
Card 5
Front
What is leasing?
Back
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