A full lesson delivered in a way to ensure student understanding. This lesson will meet the following learning objectives: Students should be able to: analyse the benefits and drawbacks of business planning understand the reasons why businesses create plans, including importance in setting up a new business, raising finance, setting objectives and detailing - - how functions of a business will be organised understand the main sections of a business plan understand the difference between variable costs, fixed costs and total costs understand the concept of revenue, costs, profit and loss.

A full lesson delivered in a way to ensure student understanding. This lesson will meet the following learning objectives: To understand the different legal structures that businesses adopt. To analyse the benefits and drawbacks of each legal structure (including issues such as management and control, sources of finance available, liability and distribution of profits). To understand the concept of limited liability and which legal structures benefit from this. To evaluate which legal structure would be most appropriate for a variety of business examples, including new start-up businesses and large established businesses.

Expanding a Business This resource is split into three lessons covering the following topics: Organic Growth including Opening new stores, E-Commerce, Outsourcing and Franchising. Inorganic Growth including Takeovers and Mergers with examples of each. Economies of Scale - Economies and Dis-economies All lessons are delivered in a straight forward manner to ensure student comprehension.

A full lesson along with additional worksheet to ensure student understanding. This lesson will complete the following learning objectives: To understand what a stakeholder is and who the main stakeholders of a business are such as owners, employees, customers, local community and suppliers. To understand stakeholders’ main objectives such as maximising pay for workers, minimising environmental impact on local community and high dividend payments for owners. To understand the impact and influence stakeholders have on businesses and their objectives and how businesses may face conflict between stakeholders.

This lesson looks at the following learning objectives: To understand the different channels of distribution used by businesses including: Retailers Wholesalers Telesales To be able to analyse the growing importance of e-commerce and m-commerce. To be able to use the marketing mix to inform and implement business decisions.

A full lesson covering Motivating Employees. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Benefits of a motivated workforce Financial Motivators Non-Financial Motivators Styles of Management BONUS worksheet activity included…

A full lesson covering Recruitment and Selection within a business. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Internal / External recruitment Stages in the recruitment process such as: Job Analysis / Job Description / Person Specification Benefits of an effective recruitment process Contract types such as Full/Part-Time, Zero hour and Job Share. BONUS worksheet activity included

A full lesson looking at the purpose and nature of businesses. To understand what a business is and the reasons for starting a business. To understand the difference between goods and services, needs and wants and the four factors of production. To understand the definition of opportunity cost and what the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors are. To understand what an enterprise and entrepreneur is. To learn about the characteristics of an entrepreneur and the objectives of entrepreneurs.

A full lesson covering Organisational Structure of a business. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Chain of Command Delayering Delegation Tall / Flat Structures Decentralisation / Centralisation BONUS worksheet activity included that follows and example shown in the lesson.

An interactive activity worksheet to test student understanding of the Boston Matrix applied to Coca-Cola.

This lesson will be looking at the following areas: To understand the benefits and risks of developing new products. To understand the importance of product design, image and the needs of the target market when designing new products. To learn about the product life cycle and Boston Matrix.

A worksheet with a range of questions applied to a case study on PlayStation.

A full lesson delivered in a way to ensure student understanding. This lesson will meet the following learning objectives: To understand the main aims and objectives for businesses including: survival, profit maximisation, growth (domestic and international), market share, customer satisfaction, social and ethical objectives and shareholder value. Understand the role of objectives in running a business and they are used Understand how and why the objectives set will differ between businesses (reasons include the size of the business, level of competition faced and type of business (not-for-profit organisations)) Understand how and why the objectives set may change as businesses evolve. Students should consider how the objectives of larger more established businesses might differ from smaller start-up businesses, e.g. becoming the dominant business in the market, international expansion, increasing shareholder value and ethical / environmental considerations Understand that the success of a business can be measured in other ways than profit.

Identify & Understanding Customers This lesson looks at the following learning objectives. To understand the importance of identifying and satisfying customer needs, in order to: provide a product or service that customers will buy increase sales select the correct marketing mix avoid costly mistakes be competitive.

This lesson will look at the following learning objectives: To have an understanding of the main features of pricing methods and how they may impact businesses. To understand the various pricing methods including: - Price skimming - Price penetration - Competitive pricing - Loss leader - Cost-plus.

This lesson will be looking at the following areas: To understand the promotional methods which are likely to be used by a business. To understand the benefits and drawbacks of promotional methods used by businesses. To be able to analyse factors influencing the selection of the promotion mix to assess their suitability for a given business.

A hypothetical example using a real life change involving Toblerone. Helps students understand an often confusing topic. Please review!! :)

A fully resourced download enabling your students to apply what they have learned and create a new product themselves. This is applied to GCSE Business AQA but can easily be ammended to another course by ammending slides 3 and 4 of the presentation. Please rate us!*