Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises KALA Joint Trials Business Studies Paper 1 2025 Mock Exam with Marking Scheme.

  It is a KCSE Business Studies Paper 1 (565/1) KALA Trial Examination (July 2025).

  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Number of Questions: 25
  • Marking Scheme: The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Resources in production (renewable vs non-renewable resources)
  • Business ethics and reasons for observing ethical practices
  • Office layout types and transformation to landscape offices
  • Forms of business ownership (state corporation) and inefficiencies in public enterprises
  • Regional economic integration (features of an economic union)
  • Insurance principles (why fire is an insurable risk)
  • Modern marketing and promotion (use of TikTok for product promotion)
  • Books of original entry and source documents
  • Banking and cheques (circumstances leading to dishonoured cheques)
  • Taxation (direct vs indirect taxes)
  • Channels of distribution (export distribution channels)
  • Public finance (types of government expenditure)
  • Inflation (levels/types of inflation)
  • Final accounts (preparation of a trading account and stock valuation using mark-up)
  • Factors of production (rewards of labour)
  • Unemployment (types of unemployment)
  • Company formation (documents submitted to the registrar of companies)
  • Transport and logistics (containerization and safety of goods)
  • Production decisions (factors influencing goods and services produced by a firm)
  • Banking services (Fuliza overdraft and its demerits)
  • Break-even analysis (characteristics of the equilibrium/break-even point)
  • Market structures (monopoly vs perfect competition)
  • Business environment (elements of the economic environment affecting business operations)
  • Bookkeeping (double entry completion for selected transactions)
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  BUSINESS STUDIES

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