February 2025

Human Resources Management: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:16:42+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: Introduction

  • The process of hiring and developing employees so that they become more valuable to the organization
  • It involves the following activities:
    1. Job Analysis
    2. Anticipating and planning the organisation’s personnel needs
    3. Job Advertising
    4. Recruiting the right people to do the job
    5. Selecting the appropriate candidates from the […]
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Marketing Research and Market Research

By |2025-02-12T09:36:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Marketing Research

  • Businesses identify and anticipate customer needs and wants using market research
  • Market research is the process concerned with identifying consumer needs and wants
  • Market research is not to be confused with marketing research
  • Market research is merely one part of market research
  • Marketing research is the systematic and objective collection, […]
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Marketing: Personal Selling

By |2025-02-12T09:12:04+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Personal Selling

  • Face-to-face selling in which a seller attempts to persuade a buyer to make a purchase.
  • It aims to persuade the customer and push the product by emphasizing it’s uses and advantages
  • It involves two way communication unlike the case with other forms of promotion such as advertising
  • Personal selling staff […]
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The location of a business

By |2025-02-12T09:30:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Production: The location of a business

  • When a business is formed, a new branch is being opened or the current site because unsatisfactory for some reason a business has to consider the location question
  • Location refers to the physical site upon which a business is located
  • A business’s objectives are in constant flux […]
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Uses, advantages and disadvantages of budgets

By |2025-02-12T09:13:33+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Ratio Analysis: Budgets: Uses, advantages and disadvantages of budgets

  • Facilitate coordination between departments within the organisation
  • Helps to assign and clarify responsibilities e.g. the production department must produce and the marketing department sell produced units
  • Help to translate strategic plans into actionable departmental goals
  • Improves communication
  • Help to control […]
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Principles of Accounting: Introduction to data processing

By |2025-02-12T08:57:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounting Notes: Introduction to data processing

  • Part of accounting involves data processing or processing data
  • Data-refers to raw and unprocessed information for example a transaction event such as the sale of goods bought for resale in exchange for cash
  • Information- is a term that is used to refer to data:
    • That is timely and […]
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Principles of Accounting: The Sales Ledger

By |2025-02-12T09:28:27+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: The Sales Ledger

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Principles of Accounting: The Accruals concept and the Materiality concept

By |2025-02-12T09:19:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: The Accruals concept and the Materiality concept

  • As we has already been pointed out in another topic here
  • The accounting function is governed by several concepts which form part of what are known as International Financial Reporting Standards
  • In this topic we will look at:
    1. The Accruals/Matching Concept and
    2. The […]
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Principles of Accounting: Disposal of Fixed Assets

By |2025-02-12T09:02:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Disposal of Fixed Assets

  • Eventually all fixed assets (non-current assets) bought for resale reach their end of life
  • More often than not a non-current asset is sold way before it reaches its end of life
  • This can happen for any number of reasons:
    • To raise cash and improve the business’s liquidity standing

      • […]

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Principles of Accounting: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

By |2025-02-12T09:39:20+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, Ordinary Level Notes, Principles of Accounts Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Principles of Accounts Notes: Bank reconciliation statement and bank overdraft

  • Preparing a bank reconciliation statement is easy
  • In the last example we assumed that the business had a positive balance shown by a a debit bank balance in the bank column of the cash book and a credit balance on the bank statement
  • In reality […]
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