Case study { Indian Ocean Earthquake/South Asian Tsunami (LEDCs)
§ The ocean floor close to the Sumatra Island of Indonesia § 9.2 scale Richter. § The 2 nd highest ever record on a seismograph. § The earthquake was caused by the Indian Plate subducts underneath the Burma Plate along the deep Andaman-Sumatran Ocean Trench. § The rupture was the longest ever caused by an earthquake, 400 kilometer long and 100 kilometer wide. § The epicenters were 30 kilometer below seal levels. § The earthquake lasted for 8 minutes. § The waves effects South East Asia, India, Sri L…
Case Study { The 2011 Tohoku, Sendai Earthquake In Japan }
§ Japan has many earthquakes in the past and the future. § They have earthquake signal in every places, such as school, offices and hospital. § There are substantial sea walls to defend against tsunami. § The coastline is particularly vulnerable to tsunami waves, because it has many deep bays that amplify the waves and cause the land to be inundated by the sea. § On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the north-east of the main island, Honshu. § It happened because Pacifi…
Different business objectives
Survival ; once they are established, they can focus on long-term objectives. Such as profit and growth. Profit ; they aim to produce sand sell the level of output where there is the greater different between revenue and the total costs. Growth ; A business that wants to expand to increase output may benefit from economic of scale. Market Share Corporate Social Responsibility ; business taking responsibility for the impact on their society and environment.
The process of IPO
IPO stands for Initial Public Offering . It is called when a company sells stock to the public for the first time. Stock is sold in the primary market at an offering price determined by the IPO team. Following The financing, the shares are traded in the secondary market air "aftermarket". Selling Stock in primary market is assisted with investment bankers or underwriters that help promote the potential offering. The steps to get IPO : Company filled the registration with the Securities and Exchang…
Measuring Business or Firms Size {Business, IGCSE}
The common method of measuring business/firms size : Capital Employed : This is the amount of money invested in productive assets (machinery, factories etc) that generate revenue. The more money a firm can invest in productive assets, the more it can produce. But production by some large firms is labour intensive. Size of Workforce (number of employees): But some large firms are capital intensive and employ relatively few workers. Total Sales/Revenue : The value of revenue is good indicator as to how big firms are and comparisons c…
The Important of Business
Two main reasons : Industrialisation is the growing importance of secondary sector (China & India) De-Industrialisation is the growing importance of the tertiary sector (UK, USA & China) The most common types of government support include : Low interest loans Low tax rates on profit in the early years Free training for workers Information, advice and support from specialist agencies The benefits of a business star-up : Making a new job The new entrepreneurs help solve the unemployment competition wit…
Characteristic Of Successful Entrepreneurs {Business, IGCSE}
Innovative : They are good at thinking up new ideas for goods and services or new ways of presenting existing goods and services. ALVA THOMAS EDISON - LAMP MARK ZUCKERBERG - FACEBOOK STEVE JOBS - APPLE Self-motivated and Determined : They have the drive to keep going, even when things get difficult. NICK VUJICIC - PASTOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER & PREACHER TONY ROBBINS - AUTHOR, ACTOR & MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER ARNORLD SCHWARZENEGGER - ENTREPRENEUR, POLITICIAN, FILM PRODUCERS, ACTOR & INVESTO…
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