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Business Studies for Secondary Schools


          (v)  Calculate your profit by subtracting    Revision exercise
              your expenses from your income.
          (vi)  Think about what worked and what      Choose the correct answer among the
              did not. How can you improve your       given alternatives in questions 1 to
              business next time?                     5 and write its letter in your exercise
                                                      book.
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          Remember:  Start  small  and simple.
          Have fun and be creative. Learn from        1. Which of the following functions of
          your experience.                              management  deals  with  recruiting,
                                                        placing,  training,  and  terminating

                    Chapter summary                     employees?
                                                        (a) Planning
           1. Management  is the process of             (b) Directing
             overseeing an organisation’s operations    (c) Staffing
             using various effective and efficient      (d) Organising
             methods to ensure that the organisation
             achieves its goals.                      2. Mr  Moses  has  been operating his
                                                        small  business of  selling  fruits  for
           2. Good business management enables the      almost  two years. He decided  to
             owners to achieve their predetermined      hire one person to assist him. Which
             goals.                                     function of management did he

           3. Planning, organising, staffing, directing,   apply?
             and controlling are the functions of
             management.                                (a) Controlling
           4. Small businesses can calculate their      (b) Recruitment
                                                        (c) Staffing
             profit and loss by comparing income        (d) Leading
             and expenditures and preparing income
             statements.                              3. The Form  Two business club
           5.  Preparation of a budget in the business   members  at  Mwembeni  Secondary
             enables the business to estimate both      School have been preparing income
             revenues and expenditures.                 statements at the end of each year.

           6. Efficient record-keeping is essential     What makes them prepare it?
             for accurate financial reporting and       (a) To analyse budget
             decision-making. Organising financial      (b) To calculate profit and loss
             information helps in tax compliance        (c) To keep daily records
             and evaluating business performance.       (d) To estimate incomes







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