**HL Business 2013 Before/After**

aimzLc2

That balance of payments question was just terrible and worded so badly. It didn't let you use your knowledge at all they were simply trying to confuse us.Lovely ABQ! but i don't think the abq can make up for those long questions

aaron94

‘For a business to survive it needs to grow and expand.'
Evaluate two methods of business expansion.''

For this one were you to talk about merging and takeovers or organic and inorganic growth? Thanks..

aimzLc2

aaron94 wrote: »

‘For a business to survive it needs to grow and expand.'
Evaluate two methods of business expansion.''

For this one were you to talk about merging and takeovers or organic and inorganic growth? Thanks..

yea i think they should have worded that better just to be safe i said one organic- franchise and one inorganic-merger but i'd say they will accept two inorganic say merger and takeover

Denis322

aaron94 wrote: »

‘For a business to survive it needs to grow and expand.'
Evaluate two methods of business expansion.''

For this one were you to talk about merging and takeovers or organic and inorganic growth? Thanks..

I did organic and inorganic - wouldn't mergers/takeovers both fall under inorganic growth anyway?

aaron94

aimzLc2 wrote: »

yea i think they should have worded that better just to be safe i said one organic- franchise and one inorganic-merger but i'd say they will accept two organic say merger and takeover

Ok thanks, I just rushed it and didn't even mention either organic/inorganic, just talked about the 2, how they occur and so on..

aimzLc2

aaron94 wrote: »

Ok thanks, I just rushed it and didn't even mention either organic/inorganic, just talked about the 2, how they occur and so on..

Hopefully they aren't really harsh but since they didn't specify i'd say you will get away with it

Alan_007_

Legion. wrote: »

Thought the paper was really easy. Finished with half an hour left, bang on ready for my A.

Go outside, and realised I did questions 1, 2, 3 and 7. Never been more annoyed at myself. Ever.

Ouch. :eek:

HugsiePie

Short questions were a bitch, the rest of it was great imo. Too bad I ran out of time

rugrats

Did anyone know the proper definition for Data Protection as per the law? I checked and it wasn't in my book. I think it was fairly sly of them to look for the exact definition. I spent half a page trying to cover all bases, and I still probably didn't get the 5 marks for it!

lisheen2308

on the tax calculation question were they trying to catch people out with the BIK, i know you account it into the tax liability but think your suppose to leave it out then when calculating USC and PRSI. Can anyone verify, i didnt do this but realised after!

rugrats

lisheen2308 wrote: »

on the tax calculation question were they trying to catch people out with the BIK, i know you account it into the tax liability but think your suppose to leave it out then when calculating USC and PRSI. Can anyone verify, i didnt do this but realised after!

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/benefit-in-kind/paye-prsi.html

No, for PRSI, at least, it's taxed with the BIK, so you're grand.

DavidDaly

I only just spotted this, but, I wasted so much time in ****ting myself and correcting it that I basically didn't finish a long question

Brendan1234

For Q7 where it asks you to outline the research techniques that all weather wellies could use, were they looking for primary and secondary or was it stuff like telemarketing and questionaires ?

DavidDaly

For question 2B what did you have to talk about for "regulating business activity" part of the question?

eoinoc2509

Brendan1234 wrote: »

For Q7 where it asks you to outline the research techniques that all weather wellies could use, were they looking for primary and secondary or was it stuff like telemarketing and questionaires ?

I said desk and field research and gave examples

aimzLc2

DavidDaly wrote: »

For question 2B what did you have to talk about for "regulating business activity" part of the question?

In my book they see regulation as control using laws so i mentioned about 2-3 laws like sales of goods act, how a business shouldn't sell goods not of merchantable quality etc.. bit tricky that question

aimzLc2

Brendan1234 wrote: »

For Q7 where it asks you to outline the research techniques that all weather wellies could use, were they looking for primary and secondary or was it stuff like telemarketing and questionaires ?

I think they wanted field and desk research and explained examples of each so like survey, observation, internet, i think you would have had to relate it to the wellies too

Brendan1234

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

I said desk and field research and gave examples

Yeah I did the same, just the wording of it got me a bit worried. Why can't they just ask questions in a straight forward, non ambiguous way?

DavidDaly

I said something about enforcing or assisting in enforcement of the Eu compertion laws as a guess and supporting indigenous firms by enterprise Ireland :O

sganyfx

DavidDaly wrote: »

For question 2B what did you have to talk about for "regulating business activity" part of the question?

Legislation for how businesses act towards employees and consumers.

Direction Regulation over specific industries such as banking.

DavidDaly

Damn, glancing back over the paper Question 7 was a doddle.:/ I wish I had done it

eoinoc2509

DavidDaly wrote: »

Damn, glancing back over the paper Question 7 was a doddle.:/ I wish I had done it

Yeah a lot of people dont do it because they dont like the unit but the question on it arent that hard

internet_user

what long questions everyone do? i did 2,3,5 and 7

aimzLc2

internet_user wrote: »

what long questions everyone do? i did 2,3,5 and 7

2,3 ,4 and 6 :P i regretted doing the balance of payments one afterwards but it was too late to start a new question i was already running out of time.Did you have enough time?

internet_user

aimzLc2 wrote: »

2,3 ,4 and 6 :P i regretted doing the balance of payments one afterwards but it was too late to start a new question i was already running out of time.Did you have enough time?

yeah i finished at 10 past 12 i dont know how :pac:i flew through the short q's and abq!

aimzLc2

internet_user wrote: »

yeah i finished at 10 past 12 i dont know how :pac:i flew through the short q's and abq!

ohh sounds good Some people were leaving my exam hall crazy early i was shocked haha

internet_user

aimzLc2 wrote: »

ohh sounds good Some people were leaving my exam hall crazy early i was shocked haha

same but it was the usual dossers so i wasnt too concerned, i prob should have tried to fir it another question but my hand was so sore i wrote more in that than either english paper or geography!

Tommyrawr

aimzLc2 wrote: »

In my book they see regulation as control using laws so i mentioned about 2-3 laws like sales of goods act, how a business shouldn't sell goods not of merchantable quality etc.. bit tricky that question

Damn I totally forgot about the sales of good act
I said Data protection Act and EPA who regulate the business effects on the environment and its emissions.
would they still be okay?

aimzLc2

Tommyrawr wrote: »

Damn I totally forgot about the sales of good act
I said Data protection Act and EPA who regulate the business effects on the environment and its emissions.
would they still be okay?

That sounds fine to me!:)

11Charlie11

The usual dosser in my hall left at 10.15 :rolleyes: although they did ordinary! :P