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Essay by nicoley298High School, 11th gradeA-, July 2014

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Business report- Fast Flowers Muswellbrook

Executive summary

Fast Flowers Muswellbrook is an Australian company that started in 1999, initially opening up two florist shops in Sydney CBD and Melbourne CBD. They eventually started expanding the store nationally due to its excessive success. Fast flowers are now one of the most recognised and trusted florist businesses in the country. This business report will be addressing their business goals, their approaches to management, coordination of key business functions, financial performance and ethical business behaviour.

Business Goals

A business goal is a desired outcome or target that an individual or business intends to achieve within a certain time frame. When operating a business, the owner generally striving to achieve two types of goals which are; financial goals and non-financial goals.

Financial Goals- can be short or long term and it is a goal set around finance or money.

Maximising profits occurs when there is a maximum difference between the total revenue coming into the business and total costs being paid out.

Not only do Fast flowers want to make profit, but they also want to maximise their profit in order to increase the expansion of the company.

Increase market share refers to the business's share of the total industry sales for a particular product. This is an important goal for Fast flowers if they want to dominate the market and other competitions, because small market gains turn into large profits eventually.

Maximise growth Fast Flowers can achieve internal growth by employing more people, introduce new products and increase their sales in order to eventually maximise the businesses growth. They can also achieve external growth by merging with other businesses which could assist the business's further expansion

Improve share price if Fast flowers wish to be further their success, they would need to...