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Spare staff to support growth

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Reserves to absorb missed targets
Borrowing power to fund expansion
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Limited reserves to avoid missed targets
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Local customers to guarantee sales
Lower prices to fund expansion
Shorter hours to support growth

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Higher costs to absorb missed targets
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Profit
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Sales volume
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Market share
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Low prices
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It holds the largest market share
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It holds the largest market share
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Suppliers may accept its terms

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It holds the smallest market share
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It holds the largest market share
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It holds the largest market share
Rivals must react to its prices
Suppliers impose their terms

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The comparison expected here is local expansion for a start-up and national or international growth for an established business."},{"text":"A start-up may target no extra site locally, while an established business may target one extra site locally.","correct":false,"explanation":"Start-ups can set small local growth targets, such as opening one extra site. 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Formal published targets are more common as a business becomes larger and established."},{"text":"The owner publishes them formally before the business begins trading, rather than reviewing them as the business develops.","correct":false,"explanation":"Start-ups commonly develop ethical and environmental aims informally as circumstances change. Publishing detailed formal targets before trading is not the usual approach described for a new business."},{"text":"The shareholders vote on them annually, rather than allowing the owner to make decisions.","correct":false,"explanation":"A start-up is often controlled directly by its owner, especially before it has many shareholders. The owner usually decides these targets informally as the business develops."},{"text":"The government sets them automatically, rather than requiring the business to make its own decisions.","correct":false,"explanation":"Government rules can impose minimum legal standards, but they do not automatically set all of a start-up's ethical and environmental targets. The owner normally decides these aims informally."}]},{"id":"e5aa2ae6-deec-464d-9f8b-854593187b76","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why might achieving a survival objective lead to a new objective?","back":"Once survival is secure, it can move on to profit or growth.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Once survival is secure, it can move on to profit or growth.","correct":true,"explanation":"Survival is often an initial priority when a business is vulnerable. After it becomes secure, management can focus on more ambitious objectives such as increasing profit or expanding the business."},{"text":"Once survival is secure, it can move on to lowering its sales.","correct":false,"explanation":"Secure survival normally gives a business scope to pursue improved performance, especially profit or growth. Deliberately lowering sales is not the usual next objective because it would weaken performance."},{"text":"Once survival is secure, it can move on to increasing its losses.","correct":false,"explanation":"A business that has secured survival would generally try to improve its financial position, not increase losses. Profit or growth are the realistic next objectives after survival is achieved."},{"text":"Once survival is secure, it can move on to closing immediately.","correct":false,"explanation":"Securing survival means the business has overcome an immediate threat, making continued operation more viable. It can then pursue profit or growth rather than automatically closing."}]},{"id":"d46a54b9-2ee8-4295-8d44-e4e86a6631ec","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can a change of ownership alter a business's objectives?","back":"The new owner inherits the larger company's growth and shareholder value objectives.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The new owner inherits the larger company's growth and shareholder value objectives.","correct":true,"explanation":"When ownership changes, the purchaser may take on the acquired company's existing scale, responsibilities and stakeholder expectations. These can include objectives focused on growth and increasing shareholder value."},{"text":"The new owner inherits the larger company's survival and closure objectives.","correct":false,"explanation":"A larger company is more likely to have established growth and shareholder value aims than objectives centred on survival and closure. The new owner may change priorities, but these are not the expected inherited objectives."},{"text":"The new owner inherits the larger company's ethical and environmental objectives only.","correct":false,"explanation":"Ethical and environmental aims may transfer with ownership, but they are not the only objectives inherited. A key effect is taking on the larger company's growth and shareholder value objectives."},{"text":"The new owner inherits the larger company's short-term cash objectives only.","correct":false,"explanation":"Short-term cash management can matter, but ownership change does not reduce the inherited objectives to cash alone. The larger company's established growth and shareholder value aims remain relevant."}]},{"id":"5570248c-4d06-4881-8a36-6b2505129579","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"When are business objectives commonly reviewed?","back":"A business usually reviews its objectives at the end of each year and sets revised targets.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"A business usually reviews its objectives at the end of each year and sets revised targets.","correct":true,"explanation":"Annual review gives a business a regular opportunity to compare performance with its objectives, consider changed conditions and set revised targets for the next period."},{"text":"A business usually reviews its objectives at the start of each day and sets revised targets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Objectives are longer-term aims, so reviewing them every day would be impractical and unnecessarily frequent. Businesses commonly review them at the end of each year before revising targets."},{"text":"A business usually reviews its objectives at the end of each decade and sets revised targets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Waiting a decade would leave objectives unresponsive to major changes in markets, competition and performance. Annual review is the usual cycle for assessing results and revising targets."},{"text":"A business usually reviews its objectives at the start of each month and sets revised targets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Monthly operational targets may be monitored, but overall business objectives are generally reviewed less frequently. The expected timing is the end of each year, followed by revised targets."}]},{"id":"f329aedb-437a-4423-939f-d73ce7d526a7","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"A recession reduces customer spending, so a business may switch from pursuing [ ] to protecting cash.","back":"A recession reduces customer spending, so a business may switch from pursuing growth to protecting cash.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"growth","correct":true,"explanation":"A recession reduces demand and customer spending, making expansion less suitable. The business may therefore replace its growth objective with protecting cash and maintaining financial stability."},{"text":"survival","correct":false,"explanation":"Survival is usually the objective a business adopts when recession threatens its finances, not the ambitious objective it abandons. The sentence should read that it switches from growth to protecting cash."},{"text":"profit","correct":false,"explanation":"Profit may become harder to achieve during a recession, but the established contrast in this sentence is between growth and protecting cash. Growth is the objective most directly reduced by falling customer spending."},{"text":"market share","correct":false,"explanation":"A business might monitor market share during a recession, but the sentence describes changing away from expansion when demand falls. The correct term is growth, replaced by a cash-protection objective."}]},{"id":"4c301aea-e162-4699-993e-8d898563d0bd","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"When a strong new rival enters the market, a business may cut prices to defend its [ ].","back":"When a strong new rival enters the market, a business may cut prices to defend its market share.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"market share","correct":true,"explanation":"Market share is the proportion of total market sales made by the business. Competitive price cuts can protect that proportion when a new rival enters."},{"text":"profit margin","correct":false,"explanation":"Cutting prices usually reduces the profit margin on each sale rather than defending it. The business cuts prices to protect its market share from the new rival."},{"text":"unit costs","correct":false,"explanation":"Unit costs depend on production costs and output, not directly on the prices charged to customers. The price cut is intended to defend market share."},{"text":"market size","correct":false,"explanation":"Market size is the total sales made by all businesses in the market, which one firm cannot defend through pricing. It is defending its market share."}]},{"id":"23a0d3bf-0319-4878-8021-9207e1d279f5","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"A rise in the national living wage can lead to a new objective of [ ] because the wage bill increases.","back":"A rise in the national living wage can lead to a new objective of cutting costs because the wage bill increases.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"cutting costs","correct":true,"explanation":"A higher national living wage raises the business’s wage bill. Cutting other costs can offset this increase and help protect its overall level of profit."},{"text":"raising wages","correct":false,"explanation":"The wage increase is an external legal requirement, not a cost-control objective. Since the wage bill has risen, the relevant new objective is cutting costs elsewhere."},{"text":"increasing staffing","correct":false,"explanation":"Employing more staff would normally increase the wage bill further, worsening the cost pressure. The business is more likely to adopt the objective of cutting costs."},{"text":"reducing sales","correct":false,"explanation":"Lower sales would reduce revenue without addressing the higher cost per worker. The appropriate response to the increased wage bill is an objective of cutting costs."}]},{"id":"d684b12e-40a3-4c84-aba8-fc56fecb0d2e","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"A takeover threat can make directors focus on increasing [ ] so shareholders reject the offer.","back":"A takeover threat can make directors focus on increasing shareholder value so shareholders reject the offer.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"shareholder value","correct":true,"explanation":"Increasing shareholder value makes keeping existing shares more attractive. Shareholders may therefore reject the takeover offer because retaining their investment promises greater returns."},{"text":"shareholder numbers","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses the number of shareholders with the value they receive from investing. Directors need to increase shareholder value so the takeover offer appears less attractive."},{"text":"employee turnover","correct":false,"explanation":"Employee turnover measures how frequently workers leave and are replaced, so increasing it would not persuade shareholders. Directors instead aim to increase shareholder value."},{"text":"director salaries","correct":false,"explanation":"Higher director salaries increase business costs and may concern shareholders rather than win their support. Increasing shareholder value gives shareholders a financial reason to reject the offer."}]},{"id":"6cfa6764-efd8-4a18-b49b-dda630502f08","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"When sales recover after a downturn, a business may move back from survival towards [ ].","back":"When sales recover after a downturn, a business may move back from survival towards growth.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"growth","correct":true,"explanation":"Survival is often prioritised during a downturn, but recovering sales reduce the immediate threat. The business can then pursue growth through higher output, sales or expansion."},{"text":"contraction","correct":false,"explanation":"Contraction is a defensive response to weak demand rather than the usual objective after sales recover. Improved trading conditions allow the business to move towards growth."},{"text":"closure","correct":false,"explanation":"Closure is considered when a business cannot continue operating, not when its sales are recovering. Recovery allows it to shift from survival towards growth."},{"text":"downsizing","correct":false,"explanation":"Downsizing is commonly used to reduce costs when a business is struggling. Once sales recover, the business is more likely to replace survival with growth."}]}]}],"examCountdown":{"examDate":"2027-05-12","paperLabel":"Paper 1"},"heading":"1.3.3 Why objectives differ and change","title":"1.3.3 Why objectives differ and change Flashcards","topbar":{"backHref":"/gcse/business/aqa/flashcards"},"topicSidebar":"$L38"}]}],"topicId":"787559d0-23b5-439b-a6c6-4d81ebeaefbe","walled":"$L39"}],"$L3a","$L3b"]