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📘 Class 12 Business Studies – Chapter 8: Controlling Quick Revision Notes + PYQs

🌟 Meaning

👉 Controlling = Process of comparing actual performance with planned performance, finding deviations, aur corrective action lena.

👉 Simple line: “Controlling ensures everything goes as per plan.”

📝 Features

  • 🔄 Continuous process (har level pe hota hai)
  • 📊 Goal‑oriented (objectives achieve karne ke liye)
  • 🏢 Present + Future oriented (current check + future improve)
  • 👨‍💼 Pervasive (sabhi managers ke liye)

📌 Importance of Controlling

  • ✅ Helps in achieving goals
  • ✅ Improves efficiency
  • ✅ Reduces wastage & cost
  • ✅ Facilitates coordination
  • ✅ Ensures discipline

🔑 Steps in Controlling Process

1️⃣ Setting performance standards (target fix karna)

2️⃣ Measuring actual performance

3️⃣ Comparing actual with standards

4️⃣ Finding deviations

5️⃣ Taking corrective actions

🎯 Exam Tips

  • Agar Q me “Process of Controlling” aaye → 5 steps likho.
  • Agar “Importance” aaye → 4–5 points likho.
  • Agar “Features” aaye → Intangible, Continuous, Pervasive yaad rakho.

🧠 Memory Trick:

👉 S‑M‑C‑D‑C = Standards → Measurement → Comparison → Deviations → Corrective action

Quick Keywords

Standards | Measurement | Comparison | Deviations | Corrective Action | Efficiency | Goal Achievement

📌 PYQs (Past Year Questions)

1️⃣ 2021 – Explain the steps in the process of controlling. (5 marks)

2️⃣ 2020 – State any four importance of controlling. (4 marks)

3️⃣ 2019 – “Controlling is a pervasive function.” Explain. (3 marks)

4️⃣ 2018 – Explain how controlling helps in achieving objectives of the organisation. (4 marks)

5️⃣ 2017 – State any three features of controlling. (3 marks)

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CHAPTER 1 :- NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 2 :- PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT 

CHAPTER 3 :- BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 4 :- PLANNING

CHAPTER 5 :- ORGANISING

CHAPTER 6 :- STAFFING

CHAPTER 7 :- DIRECTING

CHAPTER 8 :- CONTROLLING