ZIMSEC Advanced Level Business Studies Notes
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- Introduction to Business:
- The nature and purpose of business activity
- Levels of Economic Activity
- The Economic Problem
- Factors of Production
- The concept of adding value
- Industrialisation
- Economic Systems
- Private and Public Sectors:
- Types of Business Environments
- Size and Growth of Business
- Way of measuring the size of a business
- Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
- The importance of SMEs
- The problems faced by SMEs
- State and government intervention in SMEs
- Business aims and objectives
- Conflict and objectives
- Business Constraints
- ICT in business
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- International trade
- Causes of Business Failure
- ICT in business
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- Purpose of a business plan
- How to prepare a business plan
- Components of a business plan
- Meaning of Project
- Project fomulation
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- Formulation of project
- Tools for decision making
- Project
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- Management
- Leadership
- Motivation
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- Organisational Structure
- Human Resources Management
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- Purpose of communication
- Channles of communication
- Methods of communication
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- Barriers to communication
- Role of management in faciliatating communication
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- Evolution of marketing
- Market analysis
- Marketing research
- Demand and Supply concepts
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- Marketing mix and marketing strategies
- Impact of ICTs in marketing
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- Nature of operations
- Operations planning/organising production
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- Operations efficiency
- Quality management
- Inventory management
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- Business Finance
- Financial Markets
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- Accounting