As a group you are planning a garden renovation service to take advantage of the current popularity of television programmes dealing with garden design. Within the group, allocate the following roles:
1. design skills
2. labouring and building skills
3.business planning skills
4. marketing skills.
As a team discuss the approach you would take to estimating the cost of a job for quoting to an intending customer. Discuss also the proposal in a gardening advice magazine that those starting out in a new business should seek only to recover variable costs until their reputation is established. Report back to the rest of the class on:
1.the costs to be recorded;
2.the extent to which team members agree or disagree on costs to be included;
3. your views on the suggestion that only variable costs should be recovered initially.