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Business (Cambridge)

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Easy: direct recall or one straightforward application. Medium: linked steps or interpreting a diagram or data. Hard: several linked ideas or substantial inference. Ratings guide practice; they do not predict your score. All includes any questions still awaiting a rating.

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Business and its environment

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External influences on business activity
Business strategy
Enterprise
Business structure
Size of business
Business objectives
Stakeholders in a business

Human resource management

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Organisational structure
Business communication
Leadership
Human resource management (HRM) strategy
Human resource management (HRM)
Motivation
Management

Marketing

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Marketing analysis
Marketing strategy
The nature of marketing
Market research
The marketing mix

Operations management

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Location and scale
Quality management
Operations strategy
The nature of operations
Inventory management
Capacity utilisation and outsourcing

Finance and accounting

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Financial statements
Analysis of published accounts
Investment appraisal
Finance and accounting strategy
Business finance
Sources of finance
Forecasting and managing cash flows
Costs
Budgets

Multiple Choice Structured Questions

F/M · 9609/12 · 2025 · Q35 marks · sit it in its paper

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CIE-9609-2025-FM-p12 · Question 3

Explain the problem

(a)

Define the term indirect costs.

[2 marks]

(b)

Explain one benefit to a business of using budgets.

Answer guidance

Explain Give reasons, not just what happens. Each distinct reason is usually worth a mark.

[3 marks]

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