February 2025

Functions of wholesalers: To producers and manufactures

By |2025-02-12T09:14:16+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Wholesale shop. Image credit stocktraque.com Wholesale shop. Image credit stocktraque.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Wholesale Trade: Functions of wholesalers: To producers and manufactures

To the producers/manufacturers

  • The wholesaler:
  • Collects orders from numerous retailers.
  • Provides manufacturers with market information on consumer want and competitor activities.
  • Stores finished products.
  • Clears manufacturer’s production lines thus allowing manufacturers and […]
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Excise Duty and the calculation of duty

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

Image credit sofiaecho.com Image credit sofiaecho.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Excise Duty

Why excise duty is paid?

  • Excise duty is taxed on certain specified home produced goods for example tobacco meant for consumption in the home market in order to:
  • Raise revenue for the government.
  • Discourage consumption of dangerous products.
  • Reduce domestic demand.
  • Release more […]
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Functions of of Zim-Trade ( Government promotion of foreign trade)

By |2025-02-12T09:45:38+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zim-Trade expo. Image credit europa.eu Zim-Trade expo. Image credit europa.eu ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Functions of of Zim-Trade ( Government promotion of foreign trade)

Function of Zim-Trade ( Government promotion of foreign trade)

  • Carries out market research in other countries to ascertain whether or not to export to those countries.
  • Examines and […]
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Multinational Companies

By |2025-02-12T09:07:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Delta is a local example of an MNC. Image credit Nehandaradio.com Delta is a local example of an MNC. Image credit Nehandaradio.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Business Organisations: Advantages and Disadvantages Multinational Companies

Advantages

  • Pays taxes to increase revenue for the host government.
  • Creates employment to local people.
  • Brings the latest technology to the […]
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Prospectus

By |2025-02-12T09:18:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Prospectus. Image credit docstoc.com Prospectus. Image credit docstoc.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Prospectus(privatised)

 

Prospectus

  • Is prepared by founders of the company or an issuing house after the registration of a public limited company.
  • Is sent for approval to the registrar of companies before members of the public are invited to subscribe for […]
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Photosynthesis

By |2025-02-12T09:33:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science: Photosynthesis

  • Green plants are the food and oxygen producers of the living world.
  • They manufacture organic molecules from inorganic raw materials.
  • Animals rely on green plants to make food that provides them with energy and oxygen.
  • Green plants are thus known as producers and animals are in turn known as consumers.
  • Only green plants […]
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The Portuguese who visited the Mutapa Kingdom/State

By |2025-02-12T09:23:24+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A drawing depicting the death of Da Silveira A drawing depicting the death of Da Silveira image credit Jesuit.org.sg ZIMSEC History O Level Notes: The Mutapa State: The Portuguese Explorers who visited the Mutapa Kingdom/State

  • These are the early European/Portuguese explorers that came to the Mutapa Kingdom:
  1. Father Gonçalo Da Silveira
  2. António Fernandes
  3. Francisco […]
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How to write a summary- Updated 2021

By |2025-02-12T08:58:43+02:00February 12th, 2025|English Language Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level English Language Notes: How to write a summary

  • Summary writing forms an integral part of the English paper 2 examination.
  • It contributes a hefty 20% towards your final English Language grade which is pretty substantial.
  • That makes it as important as the Guided English composition found in Section B of Paper 1 of the English […]
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