February 2025

Competitor oriented pricing

By |2025-02-12T09:17:56+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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

  • This is when a firm sets the prices of its products in relation to those of competitors
  • Instead of charging prices based on costs or customer perceptions prices are based on what the competitors are charging
  • This typically involves charging prices that are in line with those of competitors
  • The […]
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The role and importance of the accounting function

By |2025-02-12T09:40:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: The role and importance of the accounting function

  • Accounting is the organisational function that is primarily concerned with:
    1. devising methods for recording transactions, and actually recording those transactions
    2. keeping financial records,
    3. performing internal audits,
    4. reporting and analyzing financial information to the management,
    5. and advising on taxation matters
  • It is […]
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Business Studies: Monetary and Fiscal Policies

By |2025-02-12T09:29:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Aiding and influencing the businesses: Monetary and Fiscal Policies

  • As has already been pointed out in another topic the government has several reasons to want to aid and influence the operations of businesses
  • There are a number of ways in which the local and national governments can do this
  • In this topic […]
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Reasons why the government regulates Business activity

By |2025-02-12T09:07:41+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes:Reasons why the government regulates Business activity

Forms of government

  • There two major forms of government in Zimbabwe:
    1. The local governments in the form of councils either urban or rural
    2. The main national government
  • There are other laws which apply by virtue of treaties, SADC regulations, the African Union and United Nations

Reasons why governments intervene […]

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Laissez-faire leadership style

By |2025-02-12T09:13:21+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Laissez Faire means to let go. Image credit slate.com

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Laissez-faire leadership style

  • Is also known as the free-reign style
  • It comes from a French phrase which means to let go
  • The free reign leader sets goals for subordinates and
  • sets the parameters within which […]
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The need for/importance of effective communication

By |2025-02-12T09:03:01+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Managing Human Resources: Communication in Business: The need for/importance of effective communication

  • Communication is said to be effective when it is received and understood in the manner in which the sender intended
  • Effective communication is essential to the achievement of the organisation’s goals
  • Without communication it would be hard to define the organisation’s […]
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Labour Turnover

By |2025-02-12T09:25:07+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: Labour Turnover

  • It is a statistical measure of the number of people who leave an organisation’s employ versus the number of people who remain in that organisation’s employment in a given year
  • It is expressed as a ratio:
  • \dfrac{\text{Number of people who left}}{\text{Avergage number of people employed}} […]
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The Product Life Cycle

By |2025-02-12T09:03:46+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: The Product Life Cycle

  • The term product life cycle is used to describe the phases through which a product passes from its introduction to decline
  • It is a basic fact in business that all products introduced go through a number of phases from their introduction to their eventual elimination
  • Generally a product […]
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Price Variations

By |2025-02-12T09:20:15+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing:Price Variations

  • In addition to employing varies pricing strategies  firms can also make use of price variations
  • This is when prices are adjusted depending on a variety of factors
  • This is usually achieved by using discounts
  • There are therefore a number of discounts
  • Discounts for bulk purchases
  • Discounts for prompt payments
  • Purchases […]
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Business Studies:The profit and loss account

By |2025-02-12T09:41:12+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: The profit and loss account

  • Organisations that operate on a profit basis traditionally prepare what used to be known as a trading and profit and loss account
  • Nowadays it is more generally known as an Income Statement
  • In strict financial accounting parlance it is called a Statement of Comprehensive […]
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