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ICT Faculty/Curriculum Area: Business, Studies/ BTEC First Level 2 in Business/Unit 1 Business Purposes/JT/September 2010

Unit 1: BUSINESS PURPOSES

Unit content

1 Understand the purposeand ownership of business

2 Understand the businesscontext in whichorganization operate

Purpose: supply of goods andservices eg at a profit, free, atcost, for sale below cost

Ownership: eg sole trader; partnership; limited companies(private Ltd, public plc; private - Ltd;charity; voluntaryorganisations; franchises; co-operatives;

Size: small; small-medium;medium; large

Scale: local; regional;national; European and globalorganisations

Role of government:European; national; local;growth; full employment;inflation/deflation; surpluses;competitiveness; equality

Business environmentcharacteristics: markets;trends (employment, income,growth); relative

growth/decline by sector;decline of primary andsecondary industries; growthof tertiary service industries;legal framework

PLTs (Personal, Learning and Thinking skills) applied to this unit:

IE independent enquirers

RL reflective learners

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Unit introduction

You will look at different businesses that exist locally, regionally andnationally. You will need to understand the nature of these businessesand the business environment in which they operate.

The wealth of the nation is created through business activity.Businesses have a wide range of purposes such as supplying goods andservices and/or manufacturing goods. Some businesses want to make

profits, others do not. Businesses contribute to the national wellbeing.

Businesses are organised differently. The largest business operatesglobally. Others may wish to remain small and free from too muchlegal control. The smallest businesses, for example, may be run fromthe owners home. Businesses are classified in terms of their activitiesand often they are interdependent upon each other. You will need to

consider the relative importance of each by looking at the localeconomy.

Businesses do not operate in a vacuum! The government sets thebusiness context. Account has to be taken of the requirements of the

European Union in areas such as competition. The government wants tocreate a business framework in which businesses and people can

succeed. You will understand how the government affects businesssuch as the decision on interest rates. When interest rates fall,

businesses borrow cheaply to invest and produce more to sell in the UKand abroad, so they take on more employees who receive incomes

which they then spend on goods and services so stimulating demand forproducts from other businesses. Growth, income, exporting andemployment can all be examined through examples such as this.

You will look at the changing patterns in the business environment andthe reasons for these changes. Businesses need to be flexible andresponsive to the changes in the business environment if they are tosurvive and succeed.


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Centre Number: 20281

Assessment Sheets: Edexcel Level 2 BTEC Extended

Certificate/Diploma

Unit Title: Unit 1: Business Purposes

Assessor: Mrs J Taitt

Agreed by Internal Verifier: Ms T Khanom

Date: September 2010

Candidate Name:

Candidate Number:

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the purpose and ownership of a business

Understand the business context in which organisations operate

Scenario

You work for a company, which offers advice to entrepreneurs who are interested in setting up their own businesses.

Your company will be setting up a stall at the NEC, which is holding a National Enterprise Week event, where people from all

over the country will attend.

You are in charge of setting up a stall and all the information and resources for the stall. You need to complete the following

tasks to ensure that all the information and resources are complete to be used at the event on your stall.

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Layout of your assignment

Assignment format Evidenc

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Comments/feedback Date

achieved

1. Front cover

a. Name

b. Edexcel BTEC .. in Businessc. Unit 1 Business Purposes

d. Waverley School

e. Centre Number: 20281f. Candidate Number:

g. Relevant Picture

2. Contents page

a. Number every page (use headers and footers)

b. Start each section on a separate pagec. Put titles for each section and use sub headings

3. Introduction

a. Using page one of this document explain what you have been asked to doand how you are going to go about doing it.

4. Complete Assignment Tasks

a. Now complete the tasks on the following grid to achieve the gradingcriteria for this unit.

5. Bibliography

a. List all textbooks and authors, articles, reports, Internet sites, businesses,adult help used for putting together your assignment.

6. Appendices

a. All information, research, documents that do not need to be in the mainpart of your portfolio need to be placed in the appendices.

b. You need to label each appendix: appendix 1, appendix 2, appendix 3 ...

and so on. In your main portfolio you need to refer to the appendixotherwise the teacher will not look at it and no marks will be given.

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Criteria Task Evidence Comments/feedback Date Achieved

P1 Identify the

purpose of fourdifferent business

organizations (IE)

Task 1

Produce a leaflet, which can be taken away by

visitors to your stall at the NEC.

P1 Your work must identify:

a) the purpose of four differentorganisations (supply of goods and services,

e.g., at a profit, free, at cost, for sale below

cost).

P2 Your work must describe:a) the ownership of the four organisations

(sole trader, partnership, private limitedcompanies, public limited companies, charity,

voluntary organisations, franchises and co-

operatives).b) link to the size of the organisations (small,

small-medium, medium and large).c) link to the scale of the organisations (local,

regional, national, European and global

organisations).

M1 Your work must contrast:a) two different businesses of different purpose

b) ownership of the two different businesses

P2 describe thedifferent types of

business ownership,linking this to the

size and scale of

four differentorganizations

M1 contrast the

ownership andpurposes of two

different business

organisations

Review date 1: w/b 3 October 2011

Review date 2: w/b 17 October 2011

Deadline: w/b 13 February 2012

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P3 Explain howbusinesses are

classified using

local and nationalexamples

Task 2

Produce a rolling PowerPoint, which can be

viewed by visitors to your stall.

P3a) what happens in the primary classification

of business activity, secondary classification of

business activity and tertiary classification ofbusiness activity using local and national

examples.

M2

a)whether there has been a growth or a decline

in the primary classification of businessactivities and the reasons for this.

b)whether there has been a growth or a declinein the secondary classification of business

activities and the reasons for this.

c)whether there has been a growth or a declinein the tertiary classification of business

activities and the reasons for this.

M2 Compare areasof growth or

decline in the

primary, secondaryand tertiary

classifications ofbusiness activities

Review date 1: w/b 14 November 2011

Review date 2: w/b 28 November 2011


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P4 Outline the roleof government in

creating the

business climate(IE)

Task 3

Produce a poster that can be referred to by

visitors to your stall.

P4 Use the following headings to outline thefollowing:

a) Roles of European; national and local

governmentb) Objectives for the government - Economic

growth; full employment; low inflation;surplus balance of payments; competitiveness;

equality

Review date 1: w/b 12 December 2011

Review date 2: 9 January 2012


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P5 Explain thecharacteristics of

the local business

environment (IE,RL)

D1 evaluate how a

businessorganisation has

responded tochanges in the

businessenvironment

Task 4

Produce a report, which can be taken away by

visitors to your stall.

P5 Explain each of the business environmentcharacteristics markets; economic trends;

sector and industry changes; legal framework

D1 Select a business and evaluate how well it

has responded to changes in its businessenvironment by taking into account how

successful it is today

Review date 1: w/b 23 January 2012

Review date 2: w/b 6 February 2012


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