Business Environment India notes-CSEET

Business Environment India:

ICSI CSEET: The Council of the ICSI has released a notice regarding CSEET on the day of the inauguration of ICSI Golden Jubilee Celebrations on 4th Oct 2017.

The Gazette Notification on the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 has been published on 3^rd February 2020 in the Official Gazette of India and the same shall be applicable from the said date of publication.

Now ICSI Published a notice regarding CSEET Test which going to start from 2020 May.

We are now going to discuss the details of CSEET Paper-3 Economics and Business Environment notes – Business Environment India

Business Environment India

Overview of Business Environment India:

Business organization has to interact and transact with its environment. Hence, both the business and environment are totally interrelated and mutually interdependent. Business environment refers to those aspects of the surroundings business enterprise, which affect or influence its operations and determine its effectiveness.

According to Keith Davis, “Business environment is the aggregate of all conditions, events and influence that surrounds and affect it”.

According to Andrews, “The environment of a company as the pattern of all external influences that affect its life and development”.

The business environment is always changing and is uncertain. It is because of dynamism of environment. As it is already said that the business environment is the sum of all the factors outside the control of management of a company, the factor, which are constantly changing, and they carry with them both opportunities and risks or uncertainties which can, make or mark the future of business.

Business environment encompasses all those factors that affect a company’s operations and includes customers, competitors, stakeholders, suppliers, industry trends, regulations other government activities, social and economic factors and technological developments. Thus, business environment refers to the external environment and includes all factors outside the firm, which lead to opportunities and threats of a firm.

FEATURES AND FACTORS INFLUENCING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

The main features of business environment are:

All the external forces : Business Environment includes all the forces, institutions and factors which directly or indirectly affect the Business Organizations.
Specific and general forces : Business environment includes specific forces such as investors, customers, competitors and suppliers. Non-human or general forces are Social, Legal, Technological, Political, etc. which affect the Business indirectly.
Inter-relation : All the forces and factors of Business Environment are inter-related to each other. For example with inclination of youth towards western culture, the demand for fast food is increasing.
Uncertainty : It is very difficult to predict the changes of Business Environment. As environment is changing very fast for example in IT, fashion industry frequent and fast changes are taking place.
Dynamic : Business environment is highly flexible and keep changing. It is not static or rigid that is why it is essential to monitor and scan the business environment continuously.
Complex : It is very difficult to understand the impact of Business environment on the companies. Although it is easy to scan the environment but it is very difficult to know how these changes will influence Business decisions. Some-time change may be minor but it might have large impact. For example, a change in government policy to increase the tax rate by 5% may affect the income of company by large amount.
Relativity : The impact of Business environment may differ from company to company or country to country. For example, when consumer organisation CES published the report of finding pesticides in cold drinks, resulted in decrease in sale of cold drinks, on the other hand it increased the sale of juice and other drinks