Business structure
1.2What the syllabus asks of you
- Economic sectors: the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors and businesses within those sectors
- Economic sectors: the public and private sectors and businesses within those sectors
- Economic sectors: the reasons for and consequences of the changing relative importance of these sectors
- Business ownership: the main features of different types of business ownership: sole traders, partnerships, private limited companies, public limited companies, franchises, co-operatives, joint ventures and social enterprises
- Business ownership: the appropriateness of different types of business ownership
- Business ownership: the concepts of unlimited liability and limited liability and their importance
- Business ownership: the advantages and disadvantages of changing from one type of business ownership to another
Drill this topic
All 12 questions on Business structure, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
Make a worksheet
Choose the years and how many questions, then print it with the answers on separate pages.
12 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.

