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An organisation’s environment

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  1. zayidfiile says

    April 19, 2018 at 9:46 am

    Thank you opentuition, i would like to ask you if i go through the notes of open tuition and the lecture notes of open tuition, are they enough to pass f1 exam?

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    • Ken Garrett says

      April 19, 2018 at 2:49 pm

      No: you need question practice so have to buy a revision kit/question bank from BPP or Kaplan.

      I don’t think you need a text book to pass.

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  2. shaista786 says

    March 19, 2018 at 12:08 pm

    I need more practice questions on this paper where can I find them?

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    • ramnarainakash says

      March 27, 2018 at 7:00 am

      BBP practice and revision ki.

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  3. ashish1991 says

    September 21, 2017 at 5:33 pm

    sir
    study material provided by open tuition and question bank provided by acca ,both of these will be enough for clearing paper f1

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  4. ashish1991 says

    September 20, 2017 at 9:20 am

    sir
    i try to solve the paper f1 of 2014 and found it very difficult . sir has changes has been made in the syllabus or it remains the same .

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    • Ken Garrett says

      September 20, 2017 at 3:30 pm

      No changes as far as I remember.

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      • ashish1991 says

        September 21, 2017 at 6:02 am

        but sir that paper was very very difficult

  5. ashish1991 says

    September 16, 2017 at 6:27 am

    sir
    is study material provided by opentution will sufficient for clearing f1 paper

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    • Ken Garrett says

      September 16, 2017 at 4:09 pm

      No.,you need to but a revision kit/question bank from a major publisher. Our notes and lectures mean that you do not need a study text.

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  6. yumie says

    September 5, 2017 at 4:53 pm

    Thank you

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  7. ashrafulislamrifath10 says

    June 12, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    thanks for your amazing lecture.

    Sir, would you please clarify me –
    why ‘ low capital expenditure ‘ is not taken as a potential barrier in the practice question 2?
    Isn’t it essential to come up with a robust capital structure for any start-up?

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    • Ken Garrett says

      June 12, 2017 at 5:48 pm

      Low capital expenditure implied that you do NOT have to spend a lot of money on non-current assets. That makes it relatively easy to set up a business because you do not have to raise a lot of money.

      High capital expenditure is a barrier to entry because you have to ensure you have enough capital to set up your factory etc.

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  8. vignesh123 says

    March 11, 2017 at 7:49 am

    hello sir please could you define firm infrastructure of the porter’s value chain ?

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    • Ken Garrett says

      March 11, 2017 at 8:28 am

      The easiest way is to think of it as being the head office, management functions.

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  9. assahak says

    February 13, 2017 at 5:16 am

    that is really help full !!!!!!!!!!!!

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  10. olivierr says

    March 22, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    Hi Sir,

    First of all thanks for your lecture… It really helps me in understanding economics… By the way could you please query about the word impediments

    sentence :-

    ‘ Businesses should
    try to build in switching costs, that is, real costs or impediments that mean that buyers
    prefer to stay with existing suppliers’

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  11. ahsankhan9690 says

    October 9, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    i cannot undrstand the two extremes and monoply supplier

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    • Ken Garrett says

      October 9, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      Where (ie at what time) in the lecture are you talking about ?

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      • ahsankhan9690 says

        October 13, 2015 at 1:20 pm

        very beginning of porter,s 5 force, rival/competitors

      • Ken Garrett says

        October 13, 2015 at 5:22 pm

        Monopoly = you are the only supplier so you have great freedom when you set prices and decide what standard of product or service to supply.

        Perfect competition = many competitors, so you have to keep roughly in line with their prices and what they offer. You have less freedom of action. If you raise prices or reduce quality your custoemrs can move to another supplier.

      • ahsankhan9690 says

        October 14, 2015 at 10:47 am

        thank u

  12. zandile says

    August 19, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    I HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE LECTURES WHEN AM STILL LISTINING IT CUT AND TWO ,THREE WORDS CUT AGAIN .SO I CANT GET IT WELL HELP.

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    • jmartin1984 says

      September 17, 2015 at 10:40 pm

      I had the same problem. HD seems to be automatically selected and highlighted in pink on the control bar,. I clicked on HD to deactivate and the lectures have worked fine since.

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  13. Abror says

    May 26, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Hi Mr John..I find it difficult to differentiate between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal….In the context of ‘best practice’ employment protection law in which circumstances is considered unfair….A) Selection of redundancy on the basis of age…B)Incompetence C)Misconduct D)Marriage to an employee of a key competitor…..Thank you…Can you elaborate how to see the difference…

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    • Ken Garrett says

      May 26, 2015 at 11:11 am

      Why have you asked this under the section called “An organisation’s environment”?

      Wrongful dismissal involves a breach of contract, whereas unfair dismissal involves a breach of statutory law.

      Under the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (“the Regulations”) it is unlawful to select for redundancy on the basis of age. This is an example of unfair dismissal.

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  14. Abror says

    May 26, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Hi
    How Can I differentiate between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal? For example: In the context of ‘best practice’ employment protection law in which of the following circumstances is dismissal of an employee automatically considered unfair…A)Selection for redundancy on the basis of age B)Misconduct C)Marriage to an employee of a key competitor D)Incompetence……I am finding it so hard to see a difference between wrongful and unfair…Thank you…

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  15. roy says

    April 1, 2015 at 8:45 am

    as a CAT programme, how many books i should cover to be well prepared for examz! e.g F1 to

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  16. Robert says

    October 27, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Thanks for the lectures. They are great. In the Test in chapter 3, the answer on the notes is “B”, but shouldn’t it be “C”?

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    • Robert says

      October 27, 2014 at 10:10 pm

      Apologies. I was referring to question 3 in chapter 3

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      • Ken Garrett says

        October 28, 2014 at 8:28 am

        In the latest version of the notes the answer to Q3 is C. I don’t know if you’ve looked at the wrong thing or we corrected an error at some point.

  17. Nawal says

    July 12, 2014 at 8:49 pm

    good

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