Business 2023 · Oct/Nov · Paper 32

Refer to lines 69-70. Analyse how the two changes in the economic environment will impact CQ.

Analyse how two qualities of leadership demonstrated by Frederico have contributed to CQ's success.

Refer to line 35. Calculate CQ's capacity utilisation.

Refer to Appendix 1. Calculate CQ's rate of inventory turnover.

Evaluate whether introducing lean production will be sufficient to achieve CQ's operational objectives.

Refer to lines 48-49 and Table 1.1. Calculate the net present value (NPV).

Evaluate whether CQ should invest in measures to improve sustainability.

Evaluate the importance to CQ's future success of new product development. Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge Assessment International Education Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download at www.cambridgeinternational.org after the live examination series. Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is a department of the University of Cambridge.