Financial Information & Business Performance (OCR GCSE Business): Exam Questions

Exam code: J204

10 mins2 questions
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A well-known restaurant chain is reviewing its business performance. Financial data about two of its recent advertising campaigns are shown below.

Advertising campaign

Weekly cost of running the campaign

Average weekly sales

Before the advertising campaign

During the advertising campaign

After the advertising campaign

A

£3 million

£4 million

£6 million

£4 million

B

£0.6 million

£4 million

£5 million

£5 million

This data helps the company understand its business performance because it shows that:

  • both advertising campaigns were cost effective

  • campaign A was cost effective, but campaign B was not

  • campaign B was cost effective, but campaign A was not

  • neither of the advertising campaigns were cost effective

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Case Study

Glorious Kitchens Ltd

Glorious Kitchens (GK) is a private limited company based in Brighton. The company makes and fits high-quality, luxury wooden kitchens throughout the south-east of England. Its most popular range is the Deluxe.

The average price of a Deluxe kitchen is £15 000 including fitting. GK calculates its fixed costs for the year to be £250 000 and its variable costs for the Deluxe to be £6380, which means they need to sell 29 kitchens to break even.

GK is concerned about the future economic climate and its possible impact on the company’s sales. It is predicted that there will be a fall in consumer incomes in the south-east of England until 2025. Unemployment in the south-east of England is forecast to follow the trend shown in Table 1.

Table 1

Unemployment rate

2022

4.0%

2023 (forecast)

3.7%

2024 (forecast)

3.4%

2025 (forecast)

3.1%

Financial data for GK at the end of 2022 is shown in Table 2.

Table 2

Net profit

£425 000

Cash at the bank

£60 000

Loans taken out by GK

£1 500 000

Donations to food banks in Brighton

£8 500

Evaluate how useful the financial data in Table 2 is to GK’s stakeholders.