CAIE A-Level Business 1.5 Stakeholders in a Business Question Bank

CAIE A-Level Business 1.5 Stakeholders in a Business Question Bank
Cambridge International AS & A Level Business 9609 syllabus for exams in 2026, 2027 and 20282026–2028

Practise identifying internal and external stakeholders, explaining their roles and responsibilities and analysing conflicts between objectives before making a contextual…

Exam points

  • classify the stakeholder as internal or external and state a role, right or responsibility
  • analyse how one stakeholder objective changes a business decision and affects another group
  • evaluate stakeholder importance or conflict using power, urgency and the organisation's context

Covered syllabus points

1.5.1—Business stakeholders1.5.2—Stakeholder influence

Question 2

[Maximum number: 13]

Law Advice Forum (LAF)

Drake has a law degree and works for a partnership of lawyers during the day. Drake owns a website that gives free legal advice. He works on the website in the evenings and at the weekend.

He started the website as a hobby, but the website has grown to over 20000 users and he now sells advertising on his videos and on the website.

Drake uses outsourcing for some areas of his website. He has recently been sent a report showing variances in the budget from the previous month (see Table 2.1).

Table 2.1 Budget report for Drake's website in the previous month

Table 2.1 Budget report for Drake's website in the previous month

Drake has now left his job and is focusing full time on the website. He rebranded the website as Law Advice Forum (LAF). Drake's business plan for LAF included:
- Operating as a sole trader.
- Continuing to develop and expand the website to provide legal advice and paid legal services.
- Renting an office in city G where all employees would work.
- Hiring five fully qualified lawyers.
- Hiring three administrators.
- Leasing IT equipment.

However, Drake is concerned about the limitations LAF will face as a labour intensive operation.

Question 2(a)(i)

(a)

Identify one external stakeholder of a business partnership.

[ 1 ]

Question 2(d)

(b)

Evaluate the most important responsibility that Drake has as the owner of LAF.

[ 12 ]

Question 6(b)

[Maximum number: 12]

'Employees are the most important stakeholder group in a primary sector oil and gas business.'

Evaluate this view.