CAIE Business (9609)

Analyse two benefits to OV of the methods it uses to communicate with employees.

Refer to Table 1.1. Calculate, for 2023, the current ratio.

Refer to Table 1.1. Calculate, for 2023, the return on capital employed (ROCE).

Evaluate whether shareholders will benefit from OV changing to a public limited company.

Refer to Table 1.3. Calculate, for location X, the accounting rate of return (ARR).

Evaluate which location OV should choose to build its factory.

Evaluate the impact on OV of the growing importance of sustainability. 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.