TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENT
PAGE
INTRODUCTION
3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
4
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
5
JUSTIFICATION OF LOCATION
6
SELECTON OF APPROPRIATE LABOUR
7
SOURCED OF FIXED AND WORKING CAPITAL
8
ROLE OF AN ENTREPRENURE
9
TYPE OF PRODUCTION
10
LEVEL OF PRODUCTION
11
QUALITY CONTROL
12
USE OF TECHNOLOGY

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LINKAGES
14
POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH
15
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
16
ETHICAL ISSUES
17
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this study is to investigate
production in establishing a business .I have
chosen this topic because i have an interest in
becoming an entrepreneur in the future and i
would like to investigate the production part of a
business. The characteristics of the business that
attract me to it are provision of a service to the
community, being my own boss and making a
profit. The official name of the business is Tasty
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Treat.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the accomplishment of this school base
assessment I would to firstly thank God for
assisting me throughout the school based
assessment. I would like to also thank my teacher
Mr. Best for assisting and helping me perfect and
finish this school based assessment.

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
The legal name of the business is Tasty Treat.
The business is a sole trader which is owned
by______. A sole trader is a person who owns a
business and has unlimited liability, he may have a
few employee. The advantages of a sole trader are
that it is easy to start up, the owner takes all the
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profit and makes all the decision . The purpose of

the business is producing birthday cakes, icing
cakes, flavored cakes and plain cakes. Tasty Treat
also produces pastries such as croissants, jam
puffs, horse shoes and turnovers. The aim of the
business is to sell our products at a reasonable
price and better quality than other competition.
The mission statement of Tasty Treat is to provide
tasty product with low calories.
The opening hours of the business are
Monday-Friday from 7:30AM-8:30PM and SaturdaySunday from 9:30-5:30.

JUSTIFICATION OF
LOCATION
The location for Tasty Treat is in Warrens St.
Michael in the Dome Mall. The reason I have
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chosen this location for Tasty Treat is because one,

it has easy access to road and raw material
because it is located on the main road. Secondly, it
has parking space and storage place for company
vehicles and goods and customers' vehicles.
Thirdly, it is located on the route of many buses
and located by a bus stop so this will draw
customers to coming in and seeing what we have
to offer to the public.

SELECTON OF APPROPRIATE
LABOUR
Tasty Treat has nine workers which are
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three skilled workers , one semi skilled and five

unskilled workers.
Two of the three skilled workers are
professional bakers. One of the professional bakers
specializes in cakes. The professional baker who
specializes in cakes tells the two unskilled workers
what to do e.g. mix flour etc. The other
professional baker specializes in pastries, he tells
two unskilled workers what to make and assists
them in the making, one unskilled worker assists in
bringing in items/ingredients as asked by the three
skilled workers .One of the skilled workers is the
manager who keeps an account of the business
and its workers to oversee what is going on. The
semi skilled worker delivers and collects product
for the business.

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SOURCES OF FIXED AND WORKING

CAPITAL
The sources of fixed capital in Tasty
Treat are the machinery (industrial ovens) and the
delivery vehicles. The working capital for Tasty
Treat is money used to pay for the salaries of the
workers, money uses on a daily basis for stock and
vehicle gas money.

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ROLE OF AN
ENTREPRENEUR
An entrepreneur is a person who takes
the risk of starting a business. The entrepreneur
takes all the profit and is liable for all losses. He
offers a good or a service for sale.
The role of an entrepreneur are to invent and
commercialize new goods and services. He also
looks for ways to improve goods and services and
seeks out new business opportunities. Furthermore,
the entrepreneur checks the progress of the
workers and also gives each worker a task , plans
what they are going to do in the future and how
he/she can work faster and progress as a company.

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TYPE OF PRODUCTION
The type of production Tasty Treat is involved
in is secondary production. Tasty Treat is involved
in secondary production because we get product
from agriculture (e.g. wheat which is made into
flour), which is primary production, and we make
product out of it (e.g. cakes and pastries).

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LEVEL OF PRODUCTION
The level of production Tasty Treat is
involved in is domestic production. Domestic
production is when you have an adequate amount
of product to provide for your country but not for
export. Tasty Treat is involved in domestic
production because the business has just been
established and so, we do not have adequate
starting capital to hire more staff and purchase
more fixed assets. This results in there being a
lesser production of products and thereby reaching
a smaller range of customers. Furthermore, due to
the small nature of the business, we cannot yet
produce at a large enough scale for exportation to
other countries. Tasty Treat produces one 100 jam
puffs ,25 horse shoes, 30 cakes,20 turnovers and
40 croissant on a daily basis. On slow day we make
half the amount we usually make.

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QUALITY CONTROL
Quality control carried out by Tasty Treat
are to ensure that machines (ovens and mixers)
are clean and serviced every month and the food
products are stored at their correct temperature.
Another form of quality control carried out by Tasty
Treat is by strictly ensuring that all product are
thrown away before their expiry date.

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USE OF TECHNOLOGY
The type of technology used by Tasty Treat are
computers and mixers and industrial ovens. The
mixer are use to mix batter for cakes and pastries.
The computers are use to store the progress of the
workers , the amount of money maid on a daily
bases and its asset and liability.

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LINKAGES
Tasty Treat is involved in both backward and
forward linkages. The backward linkages are that
Tasty Treat is buying direct from the flour mill and
from which we are making products at the bakery.
The forward linkages are the product made at the
bakery are sold to customers.
BACKWARD LINKAGES:
FLOUR MILL BAKERY
FORWARD LINKAGES
BAKERY CUSTOMER
The linkages will benefit the business
because buying wholesale direct from the flour mill
will work out cheaper than buying retail and any
other wholesalers who are buying from the flour
mill.

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POTENTIAL FOR
GROWTH
Tasty Treat can grow internally and
externally. Tasty Treat can grow internally by
employing more workers and buying more
industrial mixers and ovens. The workers can make
more products to sell customers because it have
more space to bake stuff in the industrial oven and
mix more batter.
Tasty Treat can grow externally by opening
more branches around the island and also by
opening a special branch which make products that
wholesale to supermarket and other business
around the island.

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GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
The government regulations Tasty Treat
has to follow are to register the business, pay
taxes, health permits and food licenses. If the
business is not registered we cannot operate a
business, if we do not have a health permit we
cannot sell our product as we will not be able to
certify that our products were made in sanitary and
healthy conditions and if we do not have a food
licenses we cannot sell our product.

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ETHICAL ISSUES
Ethical issues Tasty Treat can encounter is if
product has some defect or something is found in
the product which is not supposed to be inside (e.g.
rapper, pin, etc ). If any of the above ethical issues
had to happen it will be bad publicity for the
business and we would lose future and existing
customers which would cause the business to
undergo losses or even to close down.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOK USED: Essential Principal Of Business For
CSEC
Author: Dr. Alan Whitcomb
Year Of Publication:2006
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
City Of Publication: Edinburgh Gate, Harlow CM20
2DQ, UK

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