Report on General Store

A Report On

A General Store:

A Complete Overview On The Business

Prepared For

Prof. Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman

Dean, School of Business

United International University

Submitted by

Mahfuz Ahamad Khan ID. No.: 111093023

Tahmina Akter ID. No.: 111093047

Afsana Akther ID. No.: 111093202

Md. Mustafa Manery ID. No.: 111101200

Course Title: Business Communication

Section: S

Date of Submission: 24th August, 2010

Letter of transmittal

28th August, 2010

Prof. Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman

Dean, School of Business

United International University.

Dear Sir,

Subject: Submission of Research Report.

It is a great pleasure to submit herewith the research report on A General Store: A Complete Overview on the Business. Preparing this report on Shikder Store we exerted our best effort under your intensive guidance and supervision.

It was surely an opportunity for us to enrich our theoretical knowledge having relationship with the practice. It gave us the opportunity to have real life working experience and to get insight into the real business status in our country.

Throughout the report we tried to describe our learning from the study we make on this business.

We hope that you will find this report informative and interesting. We will be glad to answer any sort of query throughout this report and we will be pleased to provide any further clarification or information in interpreting this analysis if you need.

Sincerely,

Mahfuz Ahamad Khan

Tahmina Akter

Afsana Akhter

Md. Mustafa Manery

Executive Summary

People always look for a better standard of living. Although we do not pay heat, a corner general store plays a major role in this fact. Once upon a time there were very few general stores and it was very time consuming to purchase the necessary items. But by time this problem is solved by the establishment of small stores at every lane. One such store is Shikder store. Like all other general stores, it plays a vital role in enhancing the standard of living of the people in the economy.

Shikder store was established in 2001 with a motto to serve the people of that area. By time it has become the best general store in its area by serving products at good condition and through good behavior. The owner of Shikder Store Mr.Gias Uddin Shikder expects to do even better in the near future by serving the people.

Table of Contents

Serial No. Topic Name Page No.

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Significance of the Topic 1

1.2 Objective of the Study 1

1.3 Limitation of the Report 2

Chapter 2: Methodology

2.1 Sources of the Data 3

2.2 Methods of collecting Data 3

2.3 Instruments used in anlysis 4

Chapter 3: Findings

3.1 Stores Profile 5

3.2 Overall Findings 6

Chapter 4: Analysis

4.1 SWOT Analysis 9

4.2 Ratio Analysis 11

4.3 Overall Analysis 12

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendations

5.1 Conclusion 14

5.2 Recomendations 15

Appendix i-v

Chapter-1: Introduction of the Report

1.1 Significance of the topic

Time passes by and so does our busy lives. In our everyday lives, we always try to save our time in whatever we do. But do we ever think about entrepreneur just down the street working every day and night and helping us save our time? No, we never ever look back at the man sitting in a small shop after we have obtained our necessary articles from him. However, if the owner of the small shop did not provide us these goods, we would have to bring these things from the nearest big shop which would obviously be more time consuming. In order to accomplish this report, we have managed some time to meet such an owner of a small shop. The person we have met is Mohammed Gias Uddin Shikder, owner of Shikder Store.

1.2 Objective of the study

Study or working on any subject must have an objective. It may be only one objective or a combination of some objectives. Our study also has some objectives. Before submitting the report we need to discuss briefly about our specific objectives.

Specific Objectives

* To find out about the sales growth of Shikder Store.

* To find about the problems faced by Shikder Store.

* To find out how Shikder Store runs its day to day business.

1.3 Limitations of the report

When we developed this report, we faced these problems which disrupted the fulfillment of this report. There were several constrains while preparing this reports. Only four weeks were not sufficient to obtain complete information. While preparing the report, we faced a number of problems which may be termed as limitations. They are as follow:

1. We could not spend enough time that was required to