February 2025

The Second Deal

By |2025-02-12T08:58:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Second Deal

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: The Second Deal

  • A Work Progress Administration was established in 1935
  • It was to help with the problem of unemployment and had various projects under it namely:
    1. The Federal Writers Project to assist those with writings […]
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The recruitment process

By |2025-02-12T09:18:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Managing Human Resources: Human Resources Management: The recruitment process

  • Recruitment is the process of finding the best candidate for the job either from within or outside the organisation
  • The process should be carried out in a timely, efficient and effective manner
  • The recruitment process includes analyzing the requirements of a job,
  • and attracting […]
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Primary Research

By |2025-02-12T09:39:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Advantages and Disadvantages of Primary Research

  • Primary research has a number of advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of Primary Research

  • It is up to date
  • Produces high quality which the business can control and
  • It provides relevant information to the issue being researched at that particular moment
  • The business can control coverage of research

    • […]

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Marketing: Introduction to Elasticity of Demand

By |2025-02-12T09:13:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing:Introduction to Elasticity of Demand

  •  Elasticity of demand to which demand for a good or service varies with its price
  • It is a measure of how sensitive or how responsive is demand to changes in the price of a product
  • An elastic product is a product whose demand is sensitive or responsive to […]
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Methods of controlling quality

By |2025-02-12T09:32:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

  • Quality is fitness for a particular purpose
  • Quality means the produced product meets customer expectations
  • Various methods are used by businesses to achieve and maintain quality
  • These methods include:

Quality Control

  • Quality control is the process of checking quality at the end of the production line to ensure that it meets set benchmarks and standards

Quality Assurance

  • is a more comprehensive […]
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Introduction to break even analysis

By |2025-02-12T09:17:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Introduction to break even analysis

  • It is a simple decision making aid used to discover the level of output/activity that is required before profits are made
  • It can also be used to discover the level of activity/output required to achieve a set level of profits
  • Break even analysis is […]
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Principles of Accounting: Electronic Data Processing

By |2025-02-12T08:59:53+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting Notes: Electronic Data Processing

  • With the advent of computers electronic data processing has become prevalent
  • Electronic data processing is the use of computers in recording, classifying, manipulating,presenting and summarizing data
  • In the early days of computers electronic processing was rather limited
  • At first it involved the use of electronic calculators to aid manual […]
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Principles of Accounting: The Purchases Ledger

By |2025-02-12T09:30:30+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: The Purchases Ledger

  • A purchase is when good(s) are bought with intention of selling them later,
  • usually these goods will be sold at a profit
  • Items bought with the intention of using them in the business are known as assets
  • We have already looked at how to make entries in the Purchases […]
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Principles of Accounting: Money measurement concept and Historical cost concept

By |2025-02-12T09:23:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes:Money measurement concept and Historical cost concept

  • At the heart of the accounting discipline are two important concepts:
  • The Money measurement concept and
  • The Historical cost concept

The Money measurement concept

  • It is also known as the measurability concept
  • The concept dictates that only transactions and events that are capable of being measured in […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to Bad Debts

By |2025-02-12T09:07:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Introduction to Bad Debts

  • To understand the concept of Provision for Doubtful debts first we must look at Bad Debts
  • As outlined during the discussion of the matching/accruals concept
  • Most businesses conduct business on credit in addition to cash sales
  • Typically with cash sales payment is received when the goods […]
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