GCSE BUSINESS: MAY 2025: BUSINESS 2:
OPERATIONS, FINANCE AND INFLUENCES
ON BUSINESS CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ After sales service.
Answer: Advice / help given to a customer after they have bought a product
◍ As described.
Answer: Goods must be as businesses described them
◍ What are the main topics covered in AQA GCSE Business Paper 1?.
Answer: Business in the Real World, Influences on Business, Business
Operations, and Human Resources.
◍ Automation.
Answer: Production using machinery that is controlled by a computer
◍ What is the purpose of a business?.
Answer: To make goods or provide services that satisfy needs and wants.
◍ Batch Production.
Answer: Process where one type of product is made and then production is
switched to make a different product
◍ Break even forecast.
Answer: A prediction about the break-even quantity, based on estimates of
future revenues and costs
◍ Break even quantity.
Answer: "The amount a business must sell to earn enough revenue to cover
costs.
, ◍ Capital.
Answer: Money or assets such as machines, buildings, vehicles
◍ Cash.
Answer: Notes and coins BUT also money in bank accounts
◍ Cash flow forecast.
Answer: A statement showing the expected flow of money in and out of a
business over a period of time
◍ Child labour.
Answer: Use of children, below the legal age for employment to achieve low
cost production
◍ What are key reasons for starting a business?.
Answer: Exploiting a market opportunity, being your own boss, and earning
a profit.
◍ What are the four factors of production?.
Answer: Land, labour, capital, and enterprise.
◍ Click and collect.
Answer: Ordering online and collecting in store later
◍ Climate change.
Answer: The process when average temperatures rise or fall and patterns of
weather change
◍ Closing balance.
Answer: The amount of cash left at the end of the month. (This becomes the
opening balance for the next month)
◍ Consumer income.
Answer: The total amount of income that all the customers in the country
receive and which they have available to spend
◍ What are the three sectors in which firms operate?.
Answer: Primary (extract raw materials), secondary (manufacture goods),
OPERATIONS, FINANCE AND INFLUENCES
ON BUSINESS CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ After sales service.
Answer: Advice / help given to a customer after they have bought a product
◍ As described.
Answer: Goods must be as businesses described them
◍ What are the main topics covered in AQA GCSE Business Paper 1?.
Answer: Business in the Real World, Influences on Business, Business
Operations, and Human Resources.
◍ Automation.
Answer: Production using machinery that is controlled by a computer
◍ What is the purpose of a business?.
Answer: To make goods or provide services that satisfy needs and wants.
◍ Batch Production.
Answer: Process where one type of product is made and then production is
switched to make a different product
◍ Break even forecast.
Answer: A prediction about the break-even quantity, based on estimates of
future revenues and costs
◍ Break even quantity.
Answer: "The amount a business must sell to earn enough revenue to cover
costs.
, ◍ Capital.
Answer: Money or assets such as machines, buildings, vehicles
◍ Cash.
Answer: Notes and coins BUT also money in bank accounts
◍ Cash flow forecast.
Answer: A statement showing the expected flow of money in and out of a
business over a period of time
◍ Child labour.
Answer: Use of children, below the legal age for employment to achieve low
cost production
◍ What are key reasons for starting a business?.
Answer: Exploiting a market opportunity, being your own boss, and earning
a profit.
◍ What are the four factors of production?.
Answer: Land, labour, capital, and enterprise.
◍ Click and collect.
Answer: Ordering online and collecting in store later
◍ Climate change.
Answer: The process when average temperatures rise or fall and patterns of
weather change
◍ Closing balance.
Answer: The amount of cash left at the end of the month. (This becomes the
opening balance for the next month)
◍ Consumer income.
Answer: The total amount of income that all the customers in the country
receive and which they have available to spend
◍ What are the three sectors in which firms operate?.
Answer: Primary (extract raw materials), secondary (manufacture goods),
