Worksheets1.5.1 1.5.2 Entrepreneurs A Level
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A short term objective, probably for small business just starting out, or when a new firm enters the market or at a time of crisis = ???
Sales maximisation
Profit maximisation
Survival
Diversification
The percentage of total sales (by value) or total output that a business has in a specified market ???
Added value
Gross profit margin
Net cash flow
Market share
Focused on an output level that achieves the highest level of profit possible?
Profit maximisation
Social objectives
Sales maximisation
Profit satisficing
Non financial motive = ??
Independence
Sales maximisation
Survival
Profit satisficing
What is the role of an entrepreneur?
Spot gaps in the market and develop new products/services/ideas
To achieve long term employment
To find job security
To avoid risk
Individuals who act like entrepreneurs but work within an organisation = ???
Untrepreneur
Intrapreneur
Entrepreneur
Antrapreneur
Successful businesses survive by ____
achieving a high break even point
lowering gross profit margins
achieving liquidation
meeting customer needs.
Role of an entrepreneur: entrepreneurs can show ____ through being proactive and planning ahead.
timidity
initiative
idleness
lethargy
Role of an entrepreneur: entrepreneurs can show ___ by changing, adapting and developing their products and the way they do things in a business
obsolescence
shortsightedness
negligence
innovation
Characteristic of an entrepreneur: the willingness to take responsibility, get things done and plan ahead
Resilience
Innovation
Initiative
Communication
Characteristic of an entrepreneur: developing and creating new products and ideas
Determination
Organisation
Leadership
Innovative
Business start-ups come with an element of ____ and many people do not wish to take these ___
risk
reward
opportunity
gain
Characteristics of an entrepreneur: entrepreneurs have to be able to talk and present their ideas to many different stakeholders, eg employees, banks, investors and customers
Recklessness
Initiative
Innovation
Confident communication
Characteristics of an entrepreneur: entrepreneurs have to be resilient and willing to keep going in order to turn their ideas into real products for customers
Insouciance
Determination
Cowardice
Nonchalance
Characteristic of an entrepreneur: entrepreneurs are not followers, they are innovators who can take an idea and develop it and inspire employees to work and stay with them
Subordination
Leadership
Subservience
Spectatorship
Role of an entrepreneur: being able to spot where their products or services will fit and make a profit
Identify holes in the market
Identify windows in the market
Identify gaps in the market
Identify spaces in the market
Non financial motive: An entrepreneur may feel a level of ____ that they have created a successful business.
Self deactualisation
defeatism
personal satisfaction
Unfulfillment
Non financial motive: ____ relates to an entrepreneur setting up a business with the intention that making it successful will challenge them or take them out of their comfort zone.
Submission
Abdication
Risk aversion
Challenge
____ are linked to doing things in an ethical or environmentally friendly manner or making a positive contribution to society
Social objectives
Corporate objectives
Mission statements
Financial objectives
Where having more of one thing potentially results in having less of another = ???
Due diligence
Net gain
Profit satisficing
Trade off
