Work Sheet: Topic: The purpose and nature of business activity, Importance of specialization, and Added Value. ‘MS Word.’ IGCSE Business Studies. Syudies syllabus. Engage your pupils, relax, and simply guide them. All you need to do is print out the part you want to use, Explain and/or discuss the sub topic for 5 - 10 minutes and watch them learn by themselves, as they work on the tasks. Answers provided. Content •• Concepts of needs, wants, scarcity and opportunity cost •• Importance of specialization •• Purpose of business activity •• The concept of adding value and how added value can be increased.

Complete Lesson. Market Failure. Private & Social Costs & Benefits Public and Private Spending * ’ppt’ IGCSE Economics. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes, *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn. Questions at the end. Answers provided. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Define market failure and the key terms associated with market failure: public good, merit good, demerit good, social benefits, external benefits, private benefits, social costs, external costs, private costs. Causes of market failure - With respect to public goods, merit and demerit goods, external costs and external benefits, abuse of monopoly power and factor immobility. Examples of market failure with respect to these areas only. Consequences of market failure - The implications of misallocation of resources in respect of the over consumption of demerit goods and goods with external costs, and the under consumption of merit goods and goods with external benefits. Note: diagrams of demand and supply relating to market failure are not required.

Complete Lesson. Environmental concerns and ethical issues ’ppt’ IGCSE Business Studies. With these resources, I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ ‘Questions with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; • Identify and explain how business activity can impact on the environment, e.g. global warming • The concept of externalities: possible external costs and external benefits of business decisions• Sustainable development; how business activity can contribute to this • How and why business might respond to environmental pressures and opportunities, e.g. pressure groups • The role of legal controls over business activity affecting the environment, e.g. pollution controls • Ethical issues a business might face: conflicts between profits and ethics • How business might react and respond to ethical issues, e.g. child labour. Class Activity with Answers.

A Work Sheet tailored to meet the IGCSE Business Studies 0450 syllabus for 2020, 2021 and 2022 exam requirements. The activities in it should cover more than one or two lessons. Assuredly, it will help you to fully engage your key stage 4 students during lessons as well prepare them for the ‘A and A* grades’ in the final examinations. All you need to do is print out the part of the work sheet you want to use, explain and/or discuss the sub topic for no more than 5 - 10 minutes and guide the students as they work on the tasks. They would scarcely need to consult with their text books and they will learn by themselves. Content: 1.3.1 Enterprise and entrepreneurship: •Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs • Contents of a business plan and how business plans assist entrepreneurs • Why and how governments support business start-ups, e.g. grants, training schemes.

Complete Lesson. *Topic:*Price - marketing mix ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Business Studies syllabus. *.Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ ‘ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Define Product. • Identify and explain the costs and benefits of developing new products • Define Brand image – Identify and explain the impact on sales and customer loyalty • Identify and explain the role of packaging • Describe the product life cycle: identify and explain the main stages and extension strategies; draw and interpret a product life cycle diagram • Demonstrate how stages of the product life cycle can influence marketing decisions, e.g. promotion and pricing decisions. ‘Class Activities’ with ‘Answers.’

Complete Lesson. *Topic:*Product - marketing mix ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Business Studies syllabus. *.Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ ‘ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Define Product. • Identify and explain the costs and benefits of developing new products • Define Brand image – Identify and explain the impact on sales and customer loyalty • Identify and explain the role of packaging • Describe the product life cycle: identify and explain the main stages and extension strategies; draw and interpret a product life cycle diagram • Demonstrate how stages of the product life cycle can influence marketing decisions, e.g. promotion and pricing decisions. ‘Class Activities’ with ‘Answers.’

Complete Lesson. **Topic: ** Economic issues; Business cycle, Government control, Effects and Business response. ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Bus Studies & Economics syllabus. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn. 'Class Activities with Answers.' Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Identify and explain the Business cycle: • Main stages of the business cycle, e.g. growth, boom, recession, slump.• Impact on businesses of changes in employment levels, inflation and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)How government control over the economy affects business activity and how businesses may respond. • Identify government economic objectives, e.g. increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) • Impact of changes in taxes and government spending. • Impact of changes in interest rates • How businesses might respond to these changes‘Class Activtiy with Answers’

Complete Lesson. Topic: Organisational Structure, Role of Management and Delegation ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Business Studies syllabus. *.Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ ‘with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Draw, interpret and understand simple organisational charts.  Hierarchical structures: span of control, levels of hierarchy,  chain of command. Identify and describe the role of management - the roles and  responsibilities of directors, managers, supervisors, other employees in an organization. Functions of management, e.g.  planning, organising, coordinating, commanding and controlling. Importance of delegation; trust versus control.

Complete Lesson. Topic: Production of goods and Services and Lean Production and Methods of Production ’ppt’ IGCSE Business Studies. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes, *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn. Questions at the end. Answers provided. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Explain production: • Manage resources effectively to produce goods and services • Differentiate between production and productivity • Explain benefits of increasing efficiency and how to increase it, e.g. increasing productivity by automation and technology, improved labour Skills • Why businesses hold inventories • The concept of lean production: how to achieve it, e.g. just-in-time inventory control and Kaizen; benefits of lean production The main methods of production: • Features, benefits and limitations of job, batch and flow production • Recommend and justify an appropriate production method for a given situation How technology has changed production methods, e.g. using computers in design and manufacturing.

Costs Revenue Economies Diseconomies of scale Break-even Analysis* ’ppt’ IGCSE Economics. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; • Identify and classify costs using examples, e.g. fixed, variable, average, total • Use cost data to help make simple cost-based decisions, e.g. to stop production or continue. • Explain economies of scale with examples, e.g. purchasing, marketing, financial, managerial, technical.• Explain diseconomies of scale with examples, e.g. poor communication, lack of commitment from employees, weak coordination. External economies of Scale. • Break-even analysis • Construct, complete or amend a simple break-even chart • Interpret a given chart and use it to analyse a situation • Calculate break-even output from given data • Define, calculate and interpret the margin of safety • Use break-even analysis to help make simple decisions, e.g. impact of higher price • Understand the limitations of break-even analysis Class Activity Questions. Solutions included.

Complete Lesson. Trade Unions * ’ppt’ IGCSE Economics. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes, *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn. Questions at the end. Answers provided. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Define trade union. Identify and explain the role of trade unions in the economy - including engaging in collective bargaining on wages, working hours and working conditions; protecting employment; and influencing government policy. The advantages and disadvantages of trade union activity - Factors influencing the strength of trade unions. From the viewpoint of workers, firms and the government. ‘Class Activities’ ‘Keywords Study’ ‘Multiple Choice Questions with Answers.’

A complete lesson in keeping with the current IGCSE syllabus. It covers fully the ** Leadership Styles and Trade Unions IGCSE Business Studies.**. You will be able to engage your students, relax and simply guide them as they work and learn. Lesson Objectives: At the end of the lesson, all students will be able to: Define and describe the features of the main leadership styles, e.g. autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire. Recommend and justify an appropriate leadership style in given circumstances.  - Describe what a trade union is and the effects of employees being union members.   • ‘Class Activities/ Worksheets and Answers’

Cash-flow forecasting and working capital * ’ppt’ IGCSE Business Studiess. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Explain Cash-flow forecasting and working capital. Identify and explain the importance of cash and of cash-flow forecasting: • Why cash is important to a business. • What a cash-flow forecast is, how a simple one is constructed and the importance of it. • Amend or complete a simple cash-flow forecast. • How to interpret a simple cash-flow forecast. • How a short-term cash-flow problem might be overcome, e.g. increasing loans, delaying payments, asking debtors to pay more quickly. Working capital: • The concept and importance of working capital. Class Activity with Solutions.

Complete Lesson. Topic: Monetary Policy and Supply-side Policy ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Economics syllabus. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ ‘Multiple Choice Questions with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Define money supply and monetary policy Identify and explain the monetary policy measures - Changes in interest rates, money supply and foreign exchange rates. Identify and explain the effects of monetary policy - How monetary policy measures may enable the government to achieve its macroeconomic aims. Define supply -side policy Identify and explain supply-side policy measures - Examples include education and training, labour market reforms, lower direct taxes, deregulation, improving incentives to work and invest, and privatisation. Identify and explain the effects of supply-side policy measures - How supply-side policy measures may enable the government to achieve its macroeconomic aims.

Analysis of Accounts, Profitability Measures, & Acid Test Ratios. * ’ppt’ IGCSE Business Studiess. I have consistently produced A*s, As, and Bs. You can replicate my results with my up-to-date notes. *Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. ‘Class Activities.’ with Answers.’ Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Profitability: • The concept and importance of profitability. Liquidity: • The concept and importance of liquidity. How to interpret the financial performance of a business by calculating and analyzing profitability ratios and liquidity ratios: • Gross profit margin • Profit margin • Return on Capital Employed • Current ratio • Acid test ratio Why and how accounts are used: • Needs of different users of accounts and ratio analysis • How users of accounts and ratio results might use information to help make decisions, e.g. whether to lend to or invest in the business. ‘Class Activities with Answers.’

Complete Lesson. **Topic: ** Marketing Strategy Legal Control & Marketing Budget ‘ppt’, ** IGCSE Business Studies syllabus. *.Engage your students, relax, and simply guide them as they work and learn to excel. Class Activities with Answers . Lesson Objectives; At the completion of the lesson, the students should be able to; Explain the meaning of Marketing strategy. Justify marketing strategies appropriate to a given situation. • Importance of different elements of the marketing mix in influencing consumer decisions in given circumstances. • Recommend and justify an appropriate marketing strategy in given circumstances. Identify and explain the nature and impact of legal controls related to marketing. • Impact of legal controls on marketing strategy, e.g. misleading promotion, faulty and dangerous goods. • The Marketing budget. ‘Class Activities with Answers.’

This Revision Notes on Unit 5 Financial information and decisions will help your students to practice, study and revise as they work towards getting ready for the school and for the IGCSE Business Studies examinations on the current. Teachers can use it to engage Students’ for meaningful learning. And to guide students as they study this topic. It covers all aspects of this topic in the syllabus with class activities, questions and answers to practice the principles revised. It will instill a good knowledge and understanding of this topic.