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SCHOOL: GS GITUZA
SUBJECT: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CLASS: NOTES FOR S1 ALL
PREPARED BY GATEBUKE Jackson
Entrepreneurship: is a process , capacity, or ability of identifying the business opportunities from the
environmental , gathering and organizing the necessary resources and using them to start up or initiate an
enterprise, organize the production of goods and services and marketing them covering risks with the main
aims of making profits.
Entrepreneurship is having a dream or vision and the motivation to put the dream into reality. It involves
innovation, creativity and risk taking in order to come up with new products.
Entrepreneurship education:
Entrepreneurship education is the education and teaching used to provide student with the basic knowledge
and skills require to create and manage their own successful using the available resources from the
environment in order to develop themselves and their country’s economy as a whole.
An entrepreneur:
The word entrepreneur is derived from the French word “entreprendre” which means to undertake and is
used to mean a person who takes a risks of starting a new organization or introducing new idea, product or
services in a society.
A good entrepreneur should have certain desired qualities and characteristics called Personal Entrepreneurial
Characteristics (PECs) that enable him or her to succeed as an entrepreneur. A person without these characteristics is
not likely to succeed as entrepreneur.
a) Hard working: This involves an entrepreneur putting in extra efforts in what he is doing so as to meet the set
goals within a short time.
b) Self confidence:
An entrepreneur should have a strong belief in his / her abilities. He should be confident that he / she is able to
achieve he/she sets himself to achieve.
d) Financial discipline:
A good entrepreneur should have the quality discipline. Ability to control himself and control his action.
e) Opportunity seeking:
The entrepreneurship is about identifying and exploiting the opportunities. This like identifying the best
employees; advantages of cheap loans from commercial banks, taking advantage of availability of cheap raw
materials, etc
g) Risk taking:
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, they risk to start business. Good entrepreneurs assess the risks related to their
businesses before they take them. They do not take every risk; they only take the moderate risks and the risks
they are able to manage.
i) Commitment:
Good entrepreneur should be able to spend a lot of time at the business and also makes sure that the customers
are served properly.
k) Determination and perseverance: determination is the quality that makes a person to continue trying to do or
achieve something that is very difficult.
Perseveranceis continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure or opposition.
• Enterprising person
An Enterprising person is a person who takes on risky projects or businesses in order to fulfill a need.
An enterprising person shows the following characteristics:
• Have a strong need for achievement
• Resourcefulness
• Perceptive
• Task oriented
• Planner
• Risk taker
• Ability to network
• Innovation
• Independent
• Skills
• Goal-oriented
Intra-preneurship
The term intra-preneurship is derived from two words: “intra” or internal and “entrepreneurship”. Intrapreneurship
is the practice of creating new business undertakings within the boundaries of an existing enterprise or large
organization. Intra-preneurship is induced by the need to create new products so as to find new markets. This enable an
enterprise to serve a wide range of clients.
Intrapreneur:
The word intrapreneur was first used by Gifford Pinchot. He used the word to describe the person who is
engaged in innovation but within an existing business organization.
An intrapreneur introduce new ideas, new products and services but within an existing enterprise.
Intrapreneurs are more concerned with keeping business organizations up to date by providing new products
and services to meet changing needs and circumstances.
Intrapreneur is therefore an enterprising person working within the boundaries of an existing enterprise.
Importance of intra-preneurship
• It encourages innovation
• It strategically guides an organization
• It leads to better decision making
• It leads to expansion of and growth in an organisation
• It speeds up innovation
• It leads to a competitive edge over competition or competitors
Characteristics of intrapreneur
• Diplomatic
• Determined
• Self-reliance
• Adaptable
• Courageous
• Resourceful
• Team building abilities
• Persuasive
• Planning and organising
• Opportunity awareness
Mobilising resources
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TOPIC AREA 1: ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE.
Self-
awareness
Self-
knowledge
Identity
Personal
Development
Talents
Potential
Personal qualities: are personal characteristics of an individual such as patience, kindness,… They are what make up
that person’s personality.
Personal wellbeing helps to embrace change, feel positive about who they are and enjoy healthy, safe, responsible
and fulfilled lives.
• Social well-being: this refers to the extent to which an individual feels a sense of belonging in the society.
Persona qualities help an individual to be actively engaged with life and with other people. They are foundation for
positive and stable relationships and interactions as well as tolerance among individuals.
• Emotional well-being: a positive sense of well-being which enable an individual to be able to function in
society and meet the demand of everyday life.
An individual should have the ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress, joy, love
and happiness in a productive manner.
• Economic well-being: this means a person’s or family’s standards of living based primarily on how well they
are doing financially and in relation to the business.
Self-awareness: is conscious knowledge of one’s own characteristics, feelings, motives, behaviors and desires. It
defines who you are, what you want, what you think and how you feel.
Self-esteem: is positive or negative way an individual views himself or herself and how important they feel. It also
entails the desire to be held in high esteem by others.
Self-confidence: is a feeling of believing in oneself, one’s abilities and qualities. An individual’s self confidence can
be shown by his or her behavior, body language, how he or she speaks, what he or she says, and so on.
Positive attitude: is a person’s tendency to respond positively toward a certain idea, person, object, situation and life
in general. Positive attitude manifests in positive thinking, constructive thinking, creative thinking, optimism,
motivation and energy to do things and accomplish goals, and an attitude of happiness.
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Personal qualities in relation to the work in school:
the following are personal qualities in relation to work
at school.
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Personal qualities in relation to Engagement with Attentiveness,
society: the following are personal qualities that Communication,
guide us in our interactions with each other in the Loyalty,
society. Honest and trustworthiness
Work: Is any human effort, physical or mental effort used to perform an activity with the expectation of
benefiting from that activity.
Or
It refers to the use of physical or mental powers or both with the purpose of doing something that can be
beneficial to the person involved in activity.
a) Agriculture
This refers to the rearing of domestic animals (cows, goats, sheeps, etc), birds (hens, turkeys, etc), fish and
growing of the crops with the aim (intention) of earning income from their sale.
b) Trading
This is the buying and selling of goods and services by exchanging them either for money (monetary trade) or goods for
goods (barter trade). Example educational material such as pens, books, iron sheets, vehicles, drinks, etc
Manufacturing
This is types of work which involves transformation of raw materials into finished products. For example:
• Foam products like mattresses
• Wood products such as chairs , tables, paper
• Beverages such as soda, beer, wine, soft drinks, etc.
d) Service provision
Involves the use of one’s knowledge skills and attitudes to perform a task that is required and paid for by others. One
pays for a services not for it possession, but for the satisfaction derived from it.
Example
• Transport services
• Secretarial services
• Salon operations
• Teaching and medical services
A belief on the other hand, is an assumed truth or an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without
proof.
• There are now equal opportunities for both men and women:
Men can now do those jobs initially considered to be for women nursing, nursery teaching and cooking.
Business activities: are activities that are carried out for the primary purpose of making a profit.
1.Concept of Needs.
A need is any essential thing that is necessary for survival for example, food, water, shelter and clothing.
A need is something that a person has to have in order to survive.
Drink Shelter
Want is simply something that a person desires or things which you wish to have.
Types of needs
Needs have two categories, namely primary needs and secondary needs:
i) Primary needs: primary needs are the first to arise and they require an immediate satisfaction.
They are also called physiological needs, fundamental needs, basic or natural need. Examples include
food, shelter, clothing and sleep.
ii) Secondary needs: secondary needs are needs that arise once primary needs are satisfied. They are also called
Luxuries or complimentary needs.
Example includes travelling, jewellery, cars and expensive clothing.
a.Goods
Goods are physical tangible items that result from production.
Types of goods
Goods are diverse and thus they need a system of classification. Goods can be grouped into various categories
depending on their consumption. These are:
• Durable goods and perishable goods
• Economic goods and free goods
• Substitute goods and complementary goods
• Perishable goods: these are goods that go bad easily they are highly perishable, for example meat, bread and
tea.
Bread
Economic goods and free goods
• Economic goods: are goods which are useful to people, but are scarce in relation to their demand. To obtain
them, human effort is required. Ex: tap water, food fuel,…
• Free goods: are goods which we use without paying for them. They are freely given by nature. Ex:
air (oxygen), sunshine,….
• Complementary goods: these are goods that can be used together to satisfy needs, for example sugar and
coffee, pen and ink, Pen and paper, shoes and shoe polish, car and fuel, photographic camera and
photographic film
• Substitute goods: these are goods that exclude each other, for example, tea and coffee, sugar and honey, beans
and peas, coat and sweater, sandals and slippers, Omo and Nomi
Types of goods according to their biodegradability.
• A biodegradable goods
• A non-biodegradable goods
b.Service.
Services are non-physical, intangible things. They are work done for others. Ex: service of dentist, teacher,
3. CONSUMPTION
Consumption is the use of goods or services either in terms of its transformation through production or as the
satisfaction of a need involving the good’s immediate or progressive destruction. It is the satisfaction of a need through
utilization of goods and services.
a) The price level: When the price of goods and services increases, demand has a tendency to decreases.
Inversely, the demand tends to increase when the price decreases.
b) The amount of income: The demand increases for all the goods when the income increases. There exists a
category of goods whose demand does not increase with increase in income. These goods are called inferior
goods for example sweet potatoes.
c) The social and cultural structure of the consumers: some consumers have social and cultural attachments
which affect their consumption of certain commodities.
d) Fashion: The last model of products or those that are on fashion have a higher demand than products that are
out of fashion.
e) Expectation of price changes: if the prices are expected to rise, more of commodities will be consumed than
the price are expected to fall.
f) Government policy: if the policy of the government is in favor of a certain commodity, its consumption will be
higher.
g) People’s habits: people with certain habits and preferences for a certain commodity tend to always consume
more of that commodity. For example, cigarette and alcohol.
Choice: this refers to making decision about different possible options. Because human wants are unlimited and
the resources are limited, a choice must be made on what wants to satisfy immediately and what to satisfy later,
what to satisfy now and what to forego.
The list of person’s wants beginning with the most important is called the scale of preference. Choice is therefore made
according to the scale of preference. The scale of preference is not necessarily written.
1. Books
2. Shoes
3. Pens
4. Internet
5. Shirt
This means that books are the most important of all your needs, followed by shoes. This means that Mutoni will, if she
gets money, buy books first, the shoes and so on.
Opportunity cost: opportunity cost arises out of scarcity and choice. When choice is made, it means some wants
are left unsatisfied. The immediate alternative foregone when choice is made is called opportunity cost.
Opportunity cost is what you miss because you made a choice. Opportunity cost is the item that is next to the item
chosen on the scale of preference.
Financial awareness: is the ability to understand how money works, that is, how someone manages to earn or make
money, how that person manages it, how he or she invest it and debt management.
1.Concept of finance:
Meaning of finance
Finance refers to resources, especially money available to an individual, government or business for running their
operations.
In more precise way, finance is concerned with the management of own funds, raised funds and borrowed funds.
Personal finance
Personal finance: is the household finance. Personal finance is concerned with understanding the net worth of the
household and the household cash flow.
Business finance
Business finance refers to all money and credit employed and managed in a business. It involves procurement and
utilization of funds so that business firms may be able to carry out their operations effectively and efficiently.
2.Saving
To save is to set aside or put a certain amount of money or property to be used later when needs arises. Savings include/
constitute a sum that is put in reserve for future consumption.
Importance of saving
Below is the importance of saving:
Savings ensure that money is secured from theft, fire and mismanagement among other things.
Savings allow the person to obtain credit from his/ her bank.
Savings allow speculation on unexpected opportunities.
Savings allow a person to plan for projects in the future or problems that may arise.
Savings allow the banks to give credit to entrepreneurs or those who need money immediately, provided they
pay interest.
Certain savings give interest to the depositors.
For emergency: savings act as an emergency cushion.
For education: one need savings to meet the demand for education To have a good life
How to save
This step-by-step guide can help you to develop a realistic savings plan.
1. Record your expenses and income
2. Make a budget
3. Plan on saving money
4. Set saving goals
5. Decide on your priorities
6. Decide on savings strategies for different goals
7. Make saving money easier with automatic transfers
8. Watch your savings grow
3.Borrowing
Borrowing means taking and using money (loan) from a person or bank under an agreement to pay it back later.
The following are some of the reasons why people borrow money.
It is advisable to carefully analyse and understand the terms and conditions before deciding to take up borrowed money
or before signing loan contract.
4.Debt management
A debt is what you owe someone; you could owe someone money.
Not all debt is bad. If you can manage debt well, it can help you in many ways. Debt management entails spending
money wisely.
These are:
a) Reduce expenses,
b) Reuse items that are still in good condition,
c) Repairing things broken or torn
d) Recycling by taking old, used materials and giving them new life as slightly altered product.
A debit card is a “buy now, pay now” situation that can allow the holder to pay for goods or services. It can be used to
withdraw money at cash machines.
Benefits of debit cards
1. Debit cards are easy to get and carry around
2. They are more secure than carrying cash
3. They are accepted by business persons with less identification and scrutiny than personal cheques. This makes
transactions quicker
4. Debit card may be used to obtain cash from an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) or a PIN-based transaction at
no extra charge, other than a foreign ATM fee.
5. They debit funds from the user’s account on the spot, thereby finalizing the transaction at the time of purchase.
A credit card, is a small, special, coded plastic card that allows the cardholder to buy goods and services on credit. It is
a “buy now, pay later” situation.
Credit cards are not linked to the card holder’s current account. Using a credit card is a loan that must be repaid, usually
with interest.
A credit card is a financial tool. Like any tool, it can provide benefits when used well, and risks when used improperly:
Benefits
• Credit cards can be used practically everywhere, especially overseas They can help to build a person’s
credit history.
• They can boost one’s purchasing power
• Some cards may offer cash back as an incentive to use the card.
• Credit cards allow the cardholder the right to dispute billing errors and defective goods.
Risks
• Some consumers feel compelled to spend more money than they have.
• Default in card payments attracts charges (late fees and interest). This increases the debt burden on the
cardholder.
• Acquiring too much credit card debt can ruin a card holder’s credit score.
• There is a possibility of occurrence of card fraud.
• Carrying too many credit cards is not too favorable I the eyes of money lenders.
• A user may forget how much he or she spends each month.
• They may not be accepted everywhere and in every situation.
These are machines which can be used to read debit and credit cards when making a purchase in a shopping
mall/supermarket.
ATM Cards
ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine. It is a machine that can do some of the work a bank clerk or teller does.
This means that you can use them to withdraw money from your bank account or make deposits.
ATMs save us time, they also save us money because withdrawing and depositing money at an ATM is cheaper than
doing it in person in the banking hall.
Definition of Accounting:
Accounting is defined as the arts of recording, classifying, and summarizing in terms of money, all the transactions and
events of the financial information and interpretation of financial information.
Definition of Book keeping: Is concerned with the proper recording of those transactions that cause the transfer of
money or money’s worth.
Book keeping is a subset of accounting and simply the record making phase of accounting.
Book keeping is also defined as the process of recording of a business transaction accurately and systematically in an
enterprise.
Subtotal
Discount(s)
Tax
Total
Date: Received by:
ii. Purchase order: is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities and
agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer.
COMPANY NAME
Purchase order
Your address
Phone: 777-235-467
Name: Name:
Company: Company:
Address: Address:
City, State, Zip: City, State, Zip:
Phone: Phone:
Comments: Subtotal
Tax
Shipping
Total
iii. Good received note or consignment note: this document recognizes that the supplies or goods have been
receive
Sample good received note GRN Number:
Good Received Note
Supplier: …………………….. Date: ……………………….. Advice note number:………………
Order number: ……………….. Delivery location: …………. Cost-center: ……………………….
iv. Invoice: is a document sent by seller to the buyer requesting for payment.
Sales invoice
Attention
Invoice
Total amount
Terms:
Validity:
Prepared by:
Terms:
v. Stock book (inventory book): this is a document that keeps track of the items (physical items) that a business
has in the store at any point in time. It include what a business had at the beginning of the year, what has been
added to those items through purchases and production and hoe much has left the business through sales,
consumption, planned use or losses.
Investor
Government Public
Users of accounting
Employees information Customer
Managers Suppliers
Creditors
Internal users: are those persons or groups which are within the organization.
They include:
• Business managers
• Employees
• Business owners and shareholders
External users: are those groups or persons who are outside the organization.
They include:
• Financial institutions and other money lenders
• Creditors and debtors
• Investors
• Government authorities
• Consumers and debtors
• Competitors Auditors.
4.Business transactions.
Business transactions refers to any dealing between two or more parties that involves exchange of goods and services. It
may involve exchange of goods and services for money or exchange of goods and services.
b)Credit transaction:
Credit transaction is business dealing between two or more parties involving exchange of goods and services and
payment of them is made at a later date.
a) Purchasing on credit
b) Selling on credit
Purchasing on credit: this is a situation where the entrepreneur obtains goods and services and pays for them at a
future date.
Selling on credit: this is a situation where the entrepreneur sells goods and services on credit.
c)Installment payment.
Is a system of payment where a sum of money is paid in small parts in a fixed period of time. This system is associated
with a number of benefits and challenges to both the buyer and seller.
5.Modes of payment.
This is a mean by which a payment is made, such as cheque, cash or credit card.
They include:
1. Cash payment: this Is where buyer pays money in form of notes or coins to the seller.
2. Cheque: A cheque is a document that authorizes a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person’s
account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued.
3. Electronic payment (E- payment): this is a system of making payments of goods and services over electronic
network such as internet. This system utilizes smart cards, mobile phones and the internet.
4. Prepayment: is also called cash in advance, occurs when a buyer sends payment in the agreed currency and
through agreed method to a seller before the goods are obtained by the buyer. Upon receipt of payment, the
seller the delivers the goods or the buyer picks the good.
5. Money orders: a money orders is a printed order for a pre-specified amount of money, issued by the bank or
post office. As it is required that the funds be prepaid for the amount shown on it, it is a more trusted method of
payment than cheque.
Success
Business: is an economic activity, which is related with continuous and regular production and distribution of goods
and services for satisfying human wants.
Growth: is the process of increasing (positive changes) in size, amount or volume usually as a result of an increase in
various growth factors.
Business growth refers to the process by which business enterprises increase their productivity, profitability and size.
Business growth is defined as a positive increase in cash flows (money coming into the business) of the business
accompanied by increase in stock and assets.
The indicators of growth on a dairy farm could be:
• More cows on farm
• Additional paddocks
• Planted better variety grasses
• Acquired a pick up to transport milk to the milk collection centre A resident veterinary doctor attends to the
herds
2. Factors Contributing to A Business Growth
Businesses grow at different rates, some businesses grow while others do not, and the following are the factors that
determine business growth:
• Unsuitable business location: business that is located in the areas that lack market, raw materials, cheap land
and labour, transport and communication, water and power facilities face high production cost lead to low
profit and consequently business collapses.
• Lack of market for business product: the business that lack customers to buy their products, consequently
this business fails.
• Production of low quality product: businesses that produce and offer low quality products that do not meet
customer’s expectations are outcompeted in market. Such businesses consequently close down.
• Death of the owner: when the owner dies especially when there is no one else to take over the business as it
was operated by the owner, the business assets are shared as inheritance.
• Poor management of the stock: failure to maintain adequate quantities and ready supply of the stock in the
business drives away the customers to other competitors and hence leading to lack of customers and market and
leading to the business failure.
• Misuse of business funds: diversion of business funds to other purposes that may have not been budgeted for
and not in line with business operations reduces business working capital which is the life blood of the
business.
• Poor business management: when there is inefficient utilization, absence of record keeping, wrong costing
and pricing methods, uncontrolled credit to customers and financial mismanagement among others eventually
make big losses and end up closing down.
• Theft of business assets: theft by either employees or thieves from outside the business organization lead to
the collapse of the business.
• Neglect of business by the owner or entrepreneur: many entrepreneurs make a mistake of neglecting their
businesses which do not match their personal characteristics or interests and reduce their commitment of
supervision, funding initiative and creativity. Such businesses collapse as a result of losing direction.
• Poor handling customers: most business operators have got poor customer care, that is, they do not treat
customers well. This has been a great obstacle to growth in most businesses. Poor handling customers can
cause a business to loose current, potential and future customers.
Customer service
Excellent
Average
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• Insecurity: wars, theft and riots are examples of aspects that cause insecurity therefore hindering a business
from growing.
There are several indicators that may be used to measure business growth and in other way they show its stagnation or
decline.
a) Growth of assets
The business grow in assets if an entrepreneur compares the balance sheet of two periods and notices that there is
an increase in value of business assets.
i) Capitalization
The amount of capital increases because of retained profit or additional funds injected by owners. Bigger capital
indicates business growth.
j) Increase of Sales
If the total amount of money collected from sales is growing without an increase in unit price and because of the
increase in volume of sales it indicates the business growth
There are number of indicators one may use to tell whether a business is straggling or failing. These include the
following:
a) Low sales
b) Empty stock
c) Debt dependency
d) Low employees morale and high staff turnover
e) Late payment of bills
f) Reduced demand for products
g) Too many complaints from customers
1.Meaning of Concepts:
Standards: are published documents that provide for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, specification
and procedures for activities or their results, aimed at ensuring products, services, processes and systems are
safe, reliable and consistently perform the way they were intended to. Standards are established by consensus
and approved by recognized body.
Standards are applied to many materials (paints), products (nail clippers), methods (wiring a house), and
services (travel information).
Standardization: is the process of formulation, publication and implementation of standards and regulations for
common and repeated use. This is aimed at achieving optimum degree of order or uniformity in a given
context, discipline or field.
Standards harmonization: is the process of minimizing redundant or conflicting standards which may have
involved independently.
The goal is to find commonalities (sharing features and attributes), identify critical requirements that need to be
retained, and provide common standards.
Its primary activities are proposing, developing, establishing, coordinating, monitoring, revising, amending and
interpreting voluntary standards.the national standards body in Rwanda is Rwanda Standards Board (RSB).
1. To ensure that competent and skilled human resources personnel is involved in production.
2. To develop a quality culture for the application of quality management system in public and private institutions.
3. To strengthen and harmonise the enforcement of national quality control systems.
4. To have a harmonized system for standard development.
5. To establish and maintain a recognized national system of standards.
b) Testing laboratories
2.Importance of standardization
The following are the benefits of standardization.
a.National standardization: Standardization that takes place at the level of one specific country. National
standardization is done by a national standards body which is established by the national government of a given
country.
For example, Rwanda Standards Board is the national standard body of Rwanda. RSB is responsible for development of
national standards and conformity assessment as well as management of all standards bodies in the country.
b.Regional standardization: Standardization in which involvement is open to relevant bodies from countries from
only one geographical, political or economic area of the world.
c.International standardization:
International standards are developed by international
standards organisations, such as the international
standards organization
(ISO). Standardization in which involvement is open to relevant bodies from all countries.
It establishes and maintains international standards and related activities in the
world.
ISO logo, ISO is an international standards body.
4.Types of standards
There are various types of standards. they include:
a. Basic standards
Standard that has a wide-ranging coverage or contains general provisions for one particular field.
A basic standard may function as a standard for direct application or as a basis for other standards.
b. Terminology standard
Standard that is concerned with terms, usually accompanied by their definitions, and sometimes by explanatory notes,
illustrations, examples, etc.
c. Test and measurement standard
Standard that is concerned with test methods, sometimes supplemented with other provisions related to testing such as
sampling, use of statistical methods, sequence of tests
d. Product standard
Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a product or a group of products, to establish its fitness for
purpose.
e. Process standard
Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a process, to establish its fitness for purpose. f.Service
standard
Standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a service, to establish its fitness for purpose.
g) Performance standards: these are standards on how a product is supposed to function. For example, a
performance standard on the speed of Toyota Corora E per hour, along with test method to determine if the
meets the requirements.
h) Design standards: these define characteristics or how the product is to be built.
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