September 4, 2022

KCSE Past Papers Business Studies 2013 4.6.1 Business Studies Paper l (565/1) 1. Outline four ways in which business studies may be of benefit to an individual. (4 marks) 2. Highlight four extemal factors that may negatively influence the operations of a business. (4 marks) 3. State four characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. (4 marks) […]

Flow of Activities and Dependencies in Project Management Determining the schedule of activities that comprise the project is a key element of project management. After gathering all the information, the project’s master schedule is developed. The project’s master schedule is a summary level schedule that encompasses the entire project scope that includes major events and provides

Information Systems and Time Frames Project planning is a process of developing  and maintaining a project plan that provides supporting details to the project definition in terms of resources, time, cost, scope and quality plan and schedules. The major input to Project planning process are: project scope statement, environmental factors analysis(political, economic, technical, social cultural

A typical organization is divided into operational, middle, and strategic levels. The information requirements for users at each level differ and, there are number of information systems that support each level in an organization. They include: Transaction Processing System (TPS) Management Information System (MIS) Decision Support System (DSS)\ Executive Support Systems (ESS)  Expert System Artificial

An information system can be defined as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization. It can be any organized combination of people, hardware, software, communication networks, data resources, policies and procedures that store, retrieves, transforms and disseminate information in an organization.

These are programs used to store & manage files or records containing related information. Refers to a collection of programs required to store & retrieve data from a database. A DBMS is a tool that allows one to create, maintain, update and store the data within a database. DBMSs are system software that aid in

What is a Database? A database is an organised collection of (one or more) related data file(s). It is a collection of information related to a particular subject or purpose or a collection of related data or information grouped together under one logical structure. It can also be a logical collection of related files grouped