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Assignment Title / number
Introduction to the nature of business and ownership/1.1

Date Set:
10/9/13
Deadline Date:
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9/10/13

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Learning Outcomes:
1.Understand the purpose and ownership of business

Unit

1

Criteria covered in this assignment:

P1, P2, M1

Criteria met:

Assessor Signed:

Date:

(if 2nd submission needed)
Criteria still to do:

Student to sign that this is their own work: Date:

Re-submission Date (if appropriate):

Final Grading criteria met:

Final Feedback

Assignment scenario:
You have been recruited as a researcher for the Sheffield Enterprise Agency and have been asked to produce materials for senior managers on the types of business purposes and ownership that exist, using case studies and independent research.

Assignment Tasks:

Evidence to submit
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Task 1:

For four different business organisations, you must complete a table identifying their purpose.

You should choose 1 business from each of the categories below:

Category 1: Global franchise

McDonalds
Subway
Pizza Hut

Category 2: National business

J Sainsbury
Yorkshire Bank

Category 3: Local charity/volunteering organisation

Greentop

Category 4: Local sole trader

You should find this yourself. It could be a business in your family or a business local to where you live or your college. You could ask the owner for the information you need.

Present your work in the following table:

Business
What they do
Purpose
Global Franchise: McDonalds/Subway/Pizza Hut (delete as appropriate)

National business:
J Sainsbury/Yorkshire Bank (delete as appropriate)

Local charity/volunteering organisation: Greentop

Local sole trader

Task 2:

For each of your chosen 4 businesses above, you must also describe how each of these organisations is owned and link your descriptions to the size and scale of each organisation. (In other words, describe whether they are small, medium or large organisations and whether they operate locally, regionally, nationally, across Europe or throughout the world.)

Present your work in the following table:

Business
Ownership
Size
Scale
Global Franchise: McDonalds/Subway/Pizza Hut (delete as appropriate)

National business:
J Sainsbury/Yorkshire Bank (delete as appropriate)

Local charity/volunteering organisation: Voluntary Action Sheffield

Local sole trader

Task 3:

You should pick two of the businesses you