Business Pricing Strategys

When businesses want to compete with competitors, they may use one of numerous methods in order to encourage the sale of their products. Psychological...

Plex and Raspberry Pi B+

The new raspberry Pi B+ is a lot faster then it's predecessor and with that I thought I would try it at running a Plex server, the thing runs, but the...

Trade-offs and Opportunity Cost

What is Trade-offs and Opportunity Cost? Trade-offs are choosing one thing over another, if you choose to invest in paint over pencils, your opportuni...

Liquidity Ratios

There are different ratios that are used in business. A current ratio is a formula that shows the relationship between what the business has payable,...

Common AS-Level Business Studies Equations

Here is a list of routinely forgotten equations for Business Studies, make sure to memorise them. Equations Total Contribution = Total revenue - To...

Capacity Utilisation

Capacity utilisation within a business can be easy or hard to calculate, for a printing shop, it is easy to calculate how many sheets they can produce...

Factors Affecting Sales Forecasts

Sales Forecasts are charts and graphs, equations and educated predictions that allow businesses to predict future sales with a degree of accuracy....

Data, Information and it's Differences

Data itself is valueless, however when provided with context, it becomes valued, a database contains lots of raw information, and therefore it would b...

Business Failure

Businesses just starting out have a generally low rate of success, 50% of businesses fail within the first two years. Some of the common causes of bus...

Stock Control and Resource Management

Just In Time is a lean production technique, It involves ordering a product right as it is about to run out, but before the business has to stop manu...

Kanban Systems in Lean Manufacture

Kanban systems in business allows them to effectively manage their stock internally, essentially for businesses that require large amounts of stock, s...

Lean Production Techniques

Lean production methods such as Kaizen and Kanban allow a business to motivate staff to use less waste and treat resources as a finite resource. Lean...

How Customers Associate Quality with a Brand

Within any business there are multiple factors that a customer can imprint on to recognise a brand and associate with quality. Businesses can use the...

Garbage in Garbage Out Data

When you signup for a website. You enter your information (or data). You don't always get it right and could miss a box or spell your own credentials...

What is Break-even analysis useful for anyway?

What does Break-even calculate? Break-even is when a business is not making any losses or profit. This post covers margin of safety, break-even charts, and the formula.

What actually is Marketing?

Marketing is Anticipating, and satisfying, customers wants and needs, efficiency and profitability, Marketing includes Market Research The Market...

Six things ICT Provide

ICT is used globally, and has multiple points that are useful to it. Fast Repetitive Processing allows companies and individuals to process l...

Understanding Different Business Types

There are many business types of organisation, these all have their advantages, so it is important to know which is better for which task, otherwise a...

The Working Capital Cycle

The working capital cycle is a proportion of a businesses working capital that is used to allow a business to operate normally, it is the funds requir...

Influences for Supply and Demand

Businesses work on a complex demand and supply based method of producing products and services. Supply is the quantity of a good or service that a...

Market Research

When conducting market research businesses need to take risks and may be uncertain on the performance of those risks, however market research allows b...

Sources of Finance

What are Sources of Finance There are three different sources of finance, Short Term, Long Term and Medium Term. The most popular way of attai...

The Bank of England

The Bank of England sets the base interest rates that the rest of the UK banks will follow, doing so allows them to control the UK inflation rate, whi...

Simulating a phone combination brute force

If a malicious individual were to steal your android or iPhone, plug in a device to emulate a keyboard and have it test every single pass code...

Characteristics of an Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur must have a certain set of skills in order to be successful and lead them to a more prosperous life. Some positive characteristics ca...