February 2025

Informative advertising

By |2025-02-12T08:57:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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  • This is a form of advertising that provides precise detail of goods and services.
  • It is especially used when launching new products, changes in prices and to tell where and how to buy the company’s […]
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Code of advertising practice

By |2025-02-12T09:13:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Code of advertising practice

Its importance

  • It establishes basic standards of advertising.
  • It ensures that advertisements are:
  • legal i.e. they follow the set advertising laws and metes sets out the punishments for transgressors.
  • Ethical i.e. are they realistic and do they adhere […]
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Email and Internet

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

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Electronic Mail (Email)

  • Is the communication of information:
  • using a computer.
  • Via a telephone circuit.
  • The information is sent from one computer to another.
  • From one computer to several computers at the same time.
  • It uses modems.
  • Each subscriber […]
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Life Assurance

By |2025-02-12T09:09:29+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Life assurance

  • Covers against events that will certainly occur e.g. death.
  • The principle of indemnity does not apply.
  • Benefits are paid to spouses and children who are the beneficiaries of the policy.

Whole life policy.

  • One assures his/he […]
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Difficulties faced by importers and exporters

By |2025-02-12T09:22:34+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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  • Different languages
  • Language is a barrier in international trade because it leads to communication problems.
  • There is a need to translate information or instructions from one language to […]
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Consular invoice

By |2025-02-12T09:39:28+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Consular invoice

  • Assist customs officials to calculate customs duty where duty is charged on the value of imported goods.
  • Signed by a consul of the importing country certifying and confirming that the prices of the goods are correct:
  • prices of the […]
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Commerce Notes:Partnership Act

By |2025-02-12T09:02:54+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Partnership Act

  • Where a Partnership Deed has not been drafted, the Partnership Act is applicable
  • It is enacted by Parliament.
  • The Act sets out the following provisions:
  • the partners must contribute equal amounts of capital.
  • Any disputes must be settled by a majority […]
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Private Business Corporation

By |2025-02-12T09:14:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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Private Business Corporation

  • found in the private sector.
  • Governed by the Private Business Corporation Act of 1993.
  • A cross between partnerships and limited companies.
  • A legal entity or body corporate which can sue or be sued in its own name.
  • Formed by […]
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