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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

* 6 2 0 3 8 5 2 4 4 4 *

0450/21

BUSINESS STUDIES
Paper 2

May/June 2011
1 hour 45 minutes

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(a) The Directors of Chocolate Delight think the business is successful.

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(b) The Directors of Chocolate Delight want to build a new factory and will need to raise
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(a) Appendix 1 shows plain chocolate bars are in the decline stage of the product life cycle.
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(b) The Managing Director believes that the Sales Department is more important for the
success of the company than the Production, Research and Development (R & D) and
Human Resources Departments. Do you agree with him? Justify your answer.

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(a) Chocolate Delight has a website which gives customers information about the products
it sells. Identify and explain two other ways that Chocolate Delight could use the Internet
for business purposes.
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(b) Appendix 3 gives information on two machines that the owners of Chocolate Delight
could buy. Compare these two machines and recommend which machine they should
buy. Justify your answer using calculations of output per worker and labour costs per
chocolate bar.

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(a) The Finance Director says that break-even charts are useful when analysing the
different products that Chocolate Delight produce. Identify and explain two ways
break-even charts can be useful to the Finance Director of Chocolate Delight.
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(b) After buying the new machinery, Chocolate Delight will need to train workers how to use it.
Do you think that on-the-job training will be better than off-the-job training for Chocolate
Delight? Justify your answer by considering both the business and the employees of
Chocolate Delight.

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(a) Identify and explain two possible reasons Chocolate Delight buys its cocoa from
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(b) Consider how the economic forecasts shown in Appendix 2 might affect the sales, costs
and profits of Chocolate Delight over the next few years. Do you think these economic
trends will be good or bad for the company? Justify your answer.
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