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Explain why businesses create plans, including setting up a new business, raising finance, setting objectives and organising business functions.

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Business planning

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Purpose and sections of business planning

AQA GCSE BusinessBusiness in the real world

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In this objective, Explain why businesses create plans, including setting up a new business, raising finance, setting objectives and organising business functions sits within Purpose and sections of business planning and Business planning for AQA GCSE Business 8132. Use a business such as SolarSprout serves health-conscious consumers while cutting delivery times; the case evidence includes cash inflow of ?4,399, sales of 524 units, and a 24% change in costs or demand to keep the explanation applied. The important reasoning is to connect objectives, finance, functions with the business objective, the financial implication, and the effect on suppliers. Avoid treating margin and markup as the same thing. A high-quality answer should explain the commercial trade-off, use precise evidence, and finish with a judgement that depends on the context rather than a generic definition.

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functionsfinance

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