February 2025

Secondary and Primary Research

By |2025-02-12T09:38:00+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Secondary and Primary Research

  • Market research can be grouped into two:
  • Primary and
  • Secondary Research

Secondary Research

  • It involves the further investigation and analysis of data collected for another purpose or/and collected by someone else
  • It is also known as desk research
  • The data already exists at the time the research is conducted

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Pricing: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:13:11+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Pricing

  • Price is a given value that will purchase a finite amount of a product or right to use that product
  • It is usually the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something although it can be in another form other than money
  • The price of a product is usually […]
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Quality and its importance

By |2025-02-12T09:31:21+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Production: Quality and its importance

  • Quality should not be confused with excellence
  • Quality is defined as fitness for a particular purpose
  • This refers to the product’s features and characteristics and their ability to meet consumer needs and wants
  • It is divided into quality of design and quality of conformance
  • The former refers to […]
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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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English Language: Descriptive compositions-Updated

By |2025-02-12T09:00:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|English Language Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC English Language: Descriptive compositions

As part of your English Language course, you will be required to write essays on a regular basis. Descriptive essays are part of this essay writing regimen. It is important to point out that every type of essay you will encounter at Ordinary Level will require some sort of description in them so you will […]

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Principles of Accounting: William Sachikonye Statement of Financial Position

By |2025-02-12T09:12:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting: Single entry and Incomplete records: Example 2

William Sachikonye Statement of Financial Position

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