BTEC National Subsidiary Certificate/Extended Diploma in Business UNIT 1: The Business Environment Assignment Date issued: week beginning 16th September 2013 Date for final submission: end of week beginning 20th January 2014 Introduction You will already be familiar with organisations through having dealt with them as customers or employees. One of the aims of this unit is to help you to build on these experiences and learn to ‘walk in the shoes’ of owners
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people or students so they can do shift work to fit in with school. Mauds is on a main road and is close to the train station so will bring most customers in to say as if they were on the high street they wouldn’t be seen by passing drivers. This business is probably a sole trader because it’s an independent store and there is only one store. Mauds competitors would be other cafes around the area for example; the crooked house or Independent Store Pandora is a jewellery shop based in central Windsor
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The two businesses that I am going to discuss will be HMV and Blockbuster M2 There will be many benefits for a business operating from the Internet. Here I will talk through some of them and discuss how HMV and Blockbuster have responded to developing their e-business. I will analyse whether they have been successful or not and how it has affected them. The benefits of using the Internet to conduct business are that they are able to sell their product or service 24 hours a day. They will not have
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TASK 3(P6‚ M2‚ D2) A. Explain the effects of legislation to protect consumer on contract for the sale of goods. The Sale of Goods Act 1979 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which regulate contract in which supplies are bought and sold. The Act consolidates the Sale of Goods Act 1893 and following legislation‚ which in twist consolidate the previous ordinary law. The Act lays downward a small number of required legal rules‚ but these limits are least: the size of the Act is concerned
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Good analysis of two practical cases of real businesses adopting e-business practices to compete more effectively. The emphasis may be on marketing‚ product development‚ pricing or customer relations. M2 Confused.com is a comparison website that operates in the UK and specializing in insurance and financial services. There are a lot of similar website which are confused.com competitors that all offer similar services with similar price comparison strategies specifically concerning insurance
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In this assignment the author will explain the contribution of complementary psychological theories to the understanding of two specific behaviours‚ Explain the contribution of contrasting psychological theories to the understanding of two specific behaviours and assess the contribution of complementary and contrasting psychological theories to the understanding of two specific behaviours. P2 In this part of the assignment the author will explain the contribution of complementary psychological
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The primary sector is declining because it is running out of natural materials such as oil for example‚ this could mean that people would start to lose their jobs in this sector and it would be increasing growth in the tertiary sector. Although the secondary sector is also declining. These two sectors are declining due to a few reasons such as it is cheaper to import resources and materials such as coal‚ darming products etc‚ and there is an increase on the use of technology. The primary sector
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P3 describe how software and network security can keep systems and data secure Public Key: a public key is a value provided by some designated authority as an encryption key that‚ combined with a private key derived from the public key‚ can be used to effectively encrypt messages and digital signatures Private Key: Public-key cryptography refers to a cryptographic system requiring two separate keys‚ one to lock or encrypt the plaintext‚ and one to unlock or decrypt the cyphertext. Neither key
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Task 1 Describe the type of business‚ purpose and ownership of 2 contrasting types of businesses. Sole Trader A sole trader is a business owned by 1 person. It does not have limited liability meaning that if it fails and creates debts the owner is personally responsible for this. Sole trader’s usually have to work long hours and learn about all the aspects of business as many start up businesses cannot afford to hire people to take on other tasks. The owner is responsible for everything that goes
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Task 2 Legislation (P2) (M1) The Government produced the legislation ‘Manual Handling regulations 1992’; they produced this legislation to help protect staff and service user from harming themselves. In health and social care settings managers produce a policy to help prevent accidents and harm coming to their staff and the service users who come into the hospital. To help control the legislation certain lifting techniques of patients were banned due to future problems with back problems of staff
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