15 x Mini Case Study Break Even Quesitons and Answers
6 pages printable, easily to paste to Google Classroom/ Teams, Could also import into MS Forms/ google forms
5 x Simple versions
EG
Case Study 1 — BreezeBite Smoothies Business: A start-up smoothie stand.
Forecasted sales: 8,000 units
Selling price per smoothie: £4.50
Variable cost per smoothie: £2.00
Fixed costs: £12,000 per year
Questions:
a) Calculate the break-even point in units.
b) Calculate the margin of safety (units).
c) Due to rising fruit prices, variable costs increase to £2.50. What is the new break-even point?
d) What is the new margin of safety?
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10 x Case studies with more detail to read
EG
Case Study 6 — MountainMug Co.
Extract:
MountainMug Co. is planning to launch an insulated travel mug. The company expects strong demand, predicting they can sell 20,000 mugs in the first year. Each mug is expected to sell for £15, and production will cost £7 per unit. The company must also cover annual fixed manufacturing and marketing costs of £80,000.
Questions:
a) Break-even point (units)
b) Margin of safety (units)
c) New break-even point if selling price falls to £14
d) New margin of safety
A 50 slide powerpoint covering the content of Unit 1.
I use it as a promt for me to go through the whole course at a rapid rate with quick fire questions.
Images where they are relevant, bullet points, bright colours used to attract student attention
3 pages of calculations (and 3 of the same pages with answers in red, 6 sheets total)- Excel files
Gross profit & Gross Profit Margin
Net Profit & Net Profit Margin
Gross and Net Profit on one page
Each page has additional questions
PLEASE NOTE: the students copy has the answers on they are just in white font so you cannot see them.
If you are using this in a computer room please make sure you delete the answers first, any smart ones might twig on :-)
A knowledge organiser covering the content of 2.4 Making Financial Decisions
GCSE Business Edexcel 9-1 Syllabus
2 sides A4
Uploaded as a PPT so you can edit
1 x Demand Shift Work sheet (2 sides)
7 basic demand curve graphs
students read what has caused the shift, tick an option from the PIRATES options
Draw the correct inward or outward shift
1 x Supply Shift Work sheet (2 sides)
7 basic supply curve graphs
students read what has caused the shift, tick an option from the CREWS options
Draw the correct inward or outward shift
A basic worksheet to help students struggling with the basic concept and basic calculations.
May also be useful for the start of the topic in GCSE lessons
Excel file
Questions laid out to print on A4 in one tab
Answers in red on the second tab
Starter - Kahoot Quiz recapping Marketing (LO1) - need PC's, tablets or phones, you can skip though, enough content to work through,
Youtube intro
Lesson slides- Branding, logos, slogans, product differentiation- worksheet for slogans
Differentiated task
Homework Requires Pearson Book - over 2 u task PG28 to be copied
Small starter activity to calculate the gross and net profit margins of Aldi, based on 2016 and 2017 income statement figures.
20 marks/ 20 minutes
3 x copies of task per A4 sheet
Teacher powerpoint
1 x slide displaying scenario and questions
2 x slides with answers on in red
Work sheets (same task)
1 x hard, no formulas shown
1 x easier (formulas given)
Questions start from basic; rev, fixed costs etc and move up to calculating gross and net profit and margins.
A one page worksheet on revenue.
Basic calculations multiplying quantity by price given 7 short scenarios
second half of the sheet the business sells two products so they need to add the revenue from each product together.
Please note:
This end of topic assessment and answers is calculations based only.
(+) Easy to mark/ self mark and tests their ability to calculate Gross and Net Profit, Gross and Net Profit Margins, Interest amounts, interest rates %, Average Annual Profit and Average rate of Return
(-) Does not include longer answer questions or questions on graphs etc.
My classes are about to sit their mocks and so I produced this assessment to reduce marking work load during mock season.
A worksheet with one example G and N Profit Table to fill in with separate margins table, questions to analyse results,
Same again but using Costa data from 2017 and 2018
Answer sheet also attached.
My students loved this.
You are Santa, the students are your elves.
They work for you and earn their money by collecting sacks of presents from the manufacturing elves.
They calculate their daily income and then decide if they want buy more sacks.
They can use the sledge which means they can carry more presents and earn more per sack… or they can carry the sacks, meaning they earn less per sack.
Taking the sledge is risky though… if the weather changes and the ice cracks then the sledge will slip and drop the sacks through the ice.
More detail in the Powerpoint. There are differentiated accounts sheets for the students attached too.
8 slides PPT
This is a good activity to set in a computer room as cover or as an independent research task, with some guiding questions for students to collate ideas, definitions, graphs, news stories etc about:
Employment/ Unemployment
Changing levels of consumer income
Taxation
Interest Rates
Exchange Rates
Inflation