February 2025

Commerce: Management Functions: Coordinating

By |2025-02-12T09:26:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Management Functions: Coordinating

  • In our introduction to management, we defined what management is
  • In general terms, management is the work of doing work through others
  • We also mentioned the fact that management can be defined in terms of its functions/duties that a manager is expected to carry out
  • In that regard […]
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Delivery Note and Consignment Note

By |2025-02-12T09:10:50+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Delivery Note. Image credit spreadsheet123.com Delivery Note. Image credit spreadsheet123.com ZIMSEC Commerce Notes: Delivery Note and Consignment Note

Delivery Note

  • Is issued by a supplier to the buyer.
  • It is written in duplicate
  • It is used when the seller uses their own transport to deliver goods.
  • It is sent with the goods.
  • It is sued to […]
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Discount Houses and Merchant Banks

By |2025-02-12T09:35:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Tetrad Bank. Image credit zimobinews.com Tetrad Bank. Image credit zimobinews.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Money and Banking: Discount Houses and Merchant Banks

Discount Houses

  • A discount house is a financial institution that participates in the buying and discounting of bills of exchange and other financial products such as money markets, certain government […]
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Dishonoured cheques and the reason for their being dishonoured

By |2025-02-12T09:14:10+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit locanto.in Image credit locanto.in ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Money and Banking: Dishonoured cheques and the reason for their being dishonoured

  • A cheque is said to be dishonoured if the bank refuses to pay the amount of cheque.
  • Thus dishonoring of a cheque means the refusal by the bank to pay […]
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Vending machines, DIY products and Shopping Malls

By |2025-02-12T09:31:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A DIY Kit. Image credit 2020pv.co.uk A DIY Kit. Image credit 2020pv.co.uk ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Vending Machine, Do It Yourself products and Shopping Malls.

Vending machines

  • These are machines, which are installed in buys areas.
  • An example is an ATM (Automated Teller Machine).
  • The machines may be hired or leased. They operate […]
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Persuasive Advertising

By |2025-02-12T08:58:05+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Persuasive Advertisement. Image credit McDonalds. Persuasive Advertisement. Image credit McDonalds. ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Advertising: Persuasive Advertising

Persuasive/Competitive advertising

  • These are undertaken by individual businesses for the main purpose of promoting its own products using its brand names at the expense of other manufacturers producing similar products with different brand names.
  • Producers will […]
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Advertising techniques

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

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Techniques used in advertising

  • In order to make advertising more effective and appealing to consumers various techniques are employed including:
  • Ambition-This is when a successful person is sued to advertise the […]
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Documents used in shipping: Charter Party

By |2025-02-12T09:29:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Transport|

A time charter. Image credit lawandsea.net A time charter. Image credit lawandsea.net ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Transport: Documents used in shipping: Charter Party

Charter Party.

  • A contract document used to hire a ship for example tramp ships.
  • It can be known as a voyage charter when hiring a ramp for a specific […]
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Cellphone

By |2025-02-12T09:45:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Examples of modern day cellphones. Image credit egadget.com Examples of modern day cellphones. Image credit egadget.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Communication: Cellphone

Cellular telephone.

  • Used when speed is required.
  • Allows dialogue.
  • Subscriber can dial or receive calls from another subscriber or telephone subscribers
  • Can receive multiple calls at the same time by putting them […]
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Other forms of insurance: Accident, health,funeral assurance

By |2025-02-12T09:10:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Funeral. Image credit mentalfloss.com Funeral. Image credit mentalfloss.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Insurance: Accident and health insurance,funeral assurance

Accident insurance

  • There are two forms of accident insurance:
  • Personal accident insurance and
  • Group accident insurance

Personal accident

  • Is taken by individuals.
  • It covers against total disability arising from accidents e.g. sports stars or surgeons.

Group accident.

  • Taken by a […]
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