P1 Understanding Business Research

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Qualification: BTEC First in Business
Unit 1: Exploring Business Purposes

Assessment Title – Exploring Business Purposes

Criteria reference To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that the student is able to:
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P1 Describe four different types of business organisations in terms of purpose, ownership, size and scale 1
P2 Describe the primary, secondary and tertiary classifications of business activities using local and national examples 2
P3 Describe the purpose of
You will need to feed back to them with the following information. Task 1

You will need to look at four business organisations and be able to describe their purposes, size, ownership and scale.

The four businesses need to be from the following categories: Sole trader Partnership (Green Fingers) Private limited or public limited company (Sainsbury’s) Voluntary organisation, charity, franchise or co-operative

1. For each business clearly describe what each business
Describe what is meant by primary, secondary and tertiary classifications of business activities

2. Provide local and national examples of each one of these in a table.

This provides evidence for P2

Task 3

You will need to describe the purpose of setting aims and objectives for businesses

1. What is the difference between an aim and an objective – why is it important for businesses to have these?

2. For each of the four businesses that you have looked at describe what their aims and objectives are.

This provides evidence for P3

Task 4

You will need to investigate four functional areas of two of the businesses that you have written about.

1. Explain what the links are between each functional area and other functional areas in the business.

2. Why is each functional area important in helping the business to run smoothly?

This provides evidence for P4
Task 5

You will need to compare and contrast the ownership aims and objectives of two selected businesses. You will need to make sure that the businesses that you choose are very different. For instance one may be an international plc and the other a privately owned local