February 2025

Induction Training/Orientation

By |2025-02-12T09:24:13+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: Induction Training/Orientation

  • This is also known as induction training
  • It is a process of introducing a new employee to the organisation and
  • Introducing the organisation to the new employee
  • It is considered a form of training
  • Induction is important as it:
    1. Ensures the employee is integrated as […]
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Marketing mix

By |2025-02-12T09:42:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Marketing mix

  • Refers to a set of marketing tools that the firm uses to pursue its marketing objectives in the target market
  • It is used to describe four variable decisions that a business has to make when it is marketing its products
  • These variables are also known as the four Ps viz:

    • […]

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Customer oriented pricing

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

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Customer oriented pricing

  • This is pricing based on the demand for the product and customer’s perceptions of the product’s value
  • Various techniques are used
  • Perceived value pricing-is where the price is chosen to position the product in the market
  • A price is chosen which is consistent with the image of the product
  • This […]
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Importance of cash flow to the business

By |2025-02-12T09:38:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Importance of cash flow to the business

  • It is important for a business to manage its cash flow carefully
  • As pointed out in the introduction there is a difference between cash flow and profitability
  • It is quite possible for a business to be profitable and still have cash flow […]
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Business Studies: The uses and limitations/weaknesses of break even analysis

By |2025-02-12T09:26:59+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Break even analysis: The uses and limitations/weaknesses of break even analysis

  • Break even analysis has it’s strengths and weaknesses

Advantages/Uses/Strengths of Break even analysis

  • Break even analysis is an important investment appraisal option as it allows management to quickly asses the viability of a proposition
  • Margin of safety calculations are […]
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Principles of Accounting: Three Column Cash Book

By |2025-02-12T09:04:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Source Documents: Three Column Cash Book

  • Most businesses offer credit sales in order to increase sales
  • This creates the debtors accounts which are recorded in the ledger and appear in the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)
  • Cash and by extension working capital is the life blood of the business
  • To prevent […]
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Principles of Accounting: Balancing off the accounts

By |2025-02-12T09:38:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Balancing off the accounts

  • Thus far we have only looked at how to record various transactions including:
    1. Purchases
    2. Sales
    3. Returns Outwards and Returns Inwards
    4. Other transactions such as those found in the General Ledger
  • You might have noticed an entry that is listed as “Balance c/d” or “Balance b/d” in […]
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Principles of Accounting: Prepayments and the Financial statements

By |2025-02-12T09:26:22+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Prepayments and the Financial statements

  • A prepayment is when an amount is paid before it is due
  • In accounting there are two types of prepayments:
  • Prepaid expenses and
  • Prepaid income

Prepaid expenses

  • This is when the business prepays an expense
  • Examples are:
    • When a business pays rent payable in advance or
    • When it […]
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Principles of Accounting: Bad Debts and Provision for Doubtful Debts Example

By |2025-02-12T09:09:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Bad Debts and Provision for Doubtful Debts Example

A business, which started trading on 1 January 20X7, adjusted its doubtful debt provision at the end of each year on a […]

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Principles of Accounting: Profitability Ratios

By |2025-02-12T09:25:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Profitability Ratios

  • So we have already introduced you to accounting ratios
  • These ratios include a group of ratios that are known as profitability ratios
  • Such ratios measure how well a business performed in profit terms in a given period
  • At this level you are required to know how to calculate three profitability […]
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