2011 Letter Writing Question
Solution
16 Congress Avenue
Portlaois
Co. Laois
Mary and Bernard Burke
Happy Valley View
Co. Carlow
01/06/2011
Re: Query on redundancy money and company formation
Dear Mary and Bernard
Thanks for getting in touch with me. I hope my advice will
be of some help, my answers to your questions are set out below.
You will be entitled to €45,520 in redundancy money from Wander Kitchens.
The main advantage to being self employed is that you get to keep all the
profits that you make. The main disadvantage is that you will recieve no money
if the business fails. Finally, a Private Limited Company is formed by between
1 and 99 shareholders and you must have important documents such as The
Memorandum of Association which needs to be sent to the Registrars offie
and Certificate of Incorporation once all documentation has been put in place.
If you require any further assistance please feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards
Mary Maloney
Business Consultant
Sample Letter Writing Questions
Hugh Smith from 8 The Lane, Rathfarnham Co. Dublin is seeking to start up his
own exporting business of cased wine and is looking to speak to Mark Jones, a
business consultant with an address at 18 The Meadow, Streetville Co. Kilkeny
about this.
Hugh would like to ask Mark the following:
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The benefits of exports to a country
Two methods of suitable transport for exporting out of Ireland and why
The cost of exporting 40 cases at a charge of €52 per case
Use today’s date
Imagine you are Mark and write the reply to Hugh.
Lisa-Anne Doyle from 67 The High Rise, Co. Roscommon, is looking to set up
her own bakery and is looking to speak to Hannah Falvey, a buinsess
consultant with an address of 2 Kinglodge, Trim, Co Meath.
Lisa-Anne would like to ask Hannah the following:
 A suitable channel of distribution for selling her bread
 The cost of producing one unit and twenty units of bread if her costs per
unit are as follows:
Primary resources- 6 cent
Secondary resources – 8 cent
Tertiary resources- 14 cent
 Explain the meaning of the bolded terms to Lisa-Anne.
 Use todays date
Imagine you are Hannah and write the response.
Terry Roberts from 12, The Lane, Howth, Dublin, is looking to set up a bank
account for saving and is looking for advice from AIB Bank’s Bank Consultant,
Rita Jones, with an address at AIB Bank, Folthill, Howth, Co. Dublin.
Terry would like to ask Rita the following:
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What he must provide when opening up a bank account
The differences between a current and deposit account
Two reasons why it is important to save
What is meant by DIRT Tax and what is stands for
Imagine you are Rita and write the response to Terry using today’s date.
18 The Meadow
Streetville
Co. Kilkenny
8 The Lane
Rathfarnham
Co. Dublin
06/11/15
Re: Advice on setting up your own wine exporting company
Dear Hugh
Thanks for getting in touch with me. I hope my advice will be of
some help, my answers to your questions are set out below.
In relation to your questions, two benefits of setting up your own exporting
business is that it will bring extra money into your business as you will be able
to expand into new markets and it will be a great way to grow your brand and
get it recognised as you will operate in new markets. Two suitable methods of
transport would be by plane if you require delivery’s in very quick time or if it is
a huge amount of units to be it could go by ship as you could deliver orders in
bulk by cargo. Finally, the cost would be €2080 to export that many cases.
If you require any further assistance please feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards
Mark Jones
Business Consultant
2 Kinglodge
Trim
Co. Meath
67 The Highrise
Co. Roscommon
10/11/2015
Re: Advice on setting up a bakery and channels of distribution
Dear Lisa- Anne
Thanks for getting in touch with me. I hope my advice will be of
some help, my answers to your questions are set out below.
In relation to your questions, I believe a suitable channel of distribution for
selling the bread would be using a manufacturer to make the bread, perhaps in
your own bakery, then using the bakery as the retailer to sell the bread to the
consumer. (Manufacturer-Retailer-Consumer). The cost price for producing
one unit will be €0.28 cent and for 20 units the cost would be €5.60, so keep
these prices in mind when deciding to look at selling prices. You will of course
need to be aware when entering the business that the primary resource for the
bread will be its raw materials taken from land or sea, in this case the
wheat/flour, the secondary process will be the manufacturing of this
wheat/flour into bread and the tertiary process would be the bakery providing
the service of selling the bread to the consumer.
If you require any further assistance please feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards
Hannah Falvey
Business Consultant
AIB Bank
Folthill,
Howth,
Co. Dublin
12 The Lane,
Howth,
Dublin
10/11/15
Re: Advice on setting up a savings account
Dear Terry
Thanks for getting in touch with me. I hope my advice will be of some
help, my answers to your questions are set out below.
When opening up a bank account it is important that you provide items such as
an identification (i.e. passport), sample signature, a recent household bill, a
reference from someone trusted by the bank and you will then fill in an
application form. With regards to current accounts, these are accounts used for
day-day activities in a bank where you would use services like chip and pin and
cheques to withdraw money. A deposit account is used to save money and
interest would be earned on this. You must give notice to withdraw money from
a savings account but not from a current account.
Two reasons why you should save would be to obtain money for a rainy day for
unplanned circumstances such as car trouble. It is also important so that you
prevent impulse buying of discretionary items such as holidays by putting this
money away. Lastly, DIRT (Deposit Interest Retention Tax), is a tax on the
interest you receive on your savings from the bank, and is deducted by the
government from this account.
If you require any further assistance please feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards
Rita Jones
Bank Consultant
Sample Report
Report into the number of students in Coláiste na Mí playing sport
To: The staff of Coláiste na Mí
From: Paul and Alice
Date: November 2015
Re: To prepare a report that will show the sports being played in this school
and which is both the most popular and least popular sport.
Results
Completed questionaires, surveys and bar charts were done in Maths class
with Iníon Ní Cáthain and Máistir Murtagh.
Soccer was the most popular sport with 50% of students playing. Gaelic was
the second most popular sport with 48% of people playing. Squash was the
least popular sport from the list with only 1% of people playing.
Recommendations
On the basis of the above information, we should build a soccer pitch and
Gaelic pitch as soon as possible.
The full results are in Appendix 1.
Signed: Paul and Alice
Paul Duffy and Alice Henry
Student Council
Task: Take 2 minutes in class to briefly survey people in this class about
anything relevant to your own life and create a report that would be presented
to your teacher
Report Writing Homework Questions
A. Hairspray Ltd is a hairdressing company looking for a report into hair products and
who uses their business. They want to attract more people to their business. They
used a survey and questionnaire and found that 75% of Boys get their haircut in the
barber and 25% of boys use their hairdressers. They also found that their student
discount was an incentive for young girls to come to their store, but they do not
offer it to boys. The fact that they open Saturday is also a big positive but they do
not accept discounts on this day and it is the least busy day of the week.
Write a report to Hairspray Ltd and include at least 3 recommendations in your
report.
B. BLT Ltd wanted to survey 100 shoppers about their preferred sandwich. They asked
questions such as time of day for the best sandwich and what were the best
sandwich combinations.
Write a report to BLT Ltd and include 3 potential answers to the questions in your
results based on the above answers needed. Also, include your own
recommendations for this company.