IB skill practice

Evaluate sources of finance and investment appraisal evidence

Business Management SL practice with original AU/NZ business stimulus evidence, functional-area theory, toolkit or quantitative diagram support, stakeholder impact, and balanced evaluation.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Ia 5 marks Difficulty 3

Business Management practice: Evaluate sources of finance and investment appraisal evidence

Business Management SL stimulus: Christchurch parking app ParkMate is choosing finance before entering the Australian parking market. Investment appraisal shows payback of 3.4 years and ARR of 13.6%, while privacy rules for location data differ across councils. Use the finance fit matrix before recommending a source. Select the finance source, investment data, finance fit, and finance risk. Then answer this in your own words: how would this route improve the business decision answer for this exact case? AI will analyse your reasoning, stimulus evidence, toolkit or calculation use, recommendation quality, and expression.

Worked practice: build the response

Work through the business response: concept focus, supporting evidence, the decision, then a reasoned judgement.