A robust online and/or classroom-ready presentation covering AS Business Finance from Unit 5 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 5 including: • understand why business activity requires finance • recognise the importance of working capital and revenue expenditure and the different needs for finance these create • understand the importance of working capital to a business and how this can be managed • analyse the different sources of long-; medium- and short-term finance, both internal and external • understand the role played by the main financial institutions • select and justify appropriate sources of finance for different business needs • analyse the factors that managers consider when taking a finance decision The presentation can be delivered online or in a classroom and can be supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough classroom-ready presentation on Inventory Management, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 4 on Operations and Project Management. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 4 including: • understanding why businesses hold stock (inventories) and the costs of stock holding • analyse the advantages and disadvantages of traditional stock-management systems • discuss the just-in-time (JIT) stock-management system. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A time-saving classroom-ready presentation on Strategic Implementation, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 6 on Strategic Management. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses key learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 6 including: • understand what strategic implementation means • evaluate the importance of business plans and corporate planning to strategic implementation • analyse different types of corporate culture and assess the impact culture can have on strategic implementation • understand how businesses can establish a “change culture” • assess how businesses can manage and control strategic change • evaluate the importance of contingency planning and crisis management The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A helpful tool for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Project Management as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 4 on Operations and Project Management Unit. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 4 including: • understand the purpose of project management • analyse the key elements of project planning • analyse how critical path analysis (CPA) and network diagrams can be used to help with project management • apply CPA to different projects • evaluate the usefulness of the technique. The presentation can be delivered online or in a classroom and can be supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Lean Production and Quality Management, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 4 on Operations and Project Management Unit. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 4 including: • analyse the importance of lean production to competitive businesses • evaluate the main lean production techniques • explain the concept of quality • understand the difference between quality control and quality assurance • explain the importance of businesses establishing quality-assurance systems • evaluate the effectiveness of total quality management • assess the costs and benefits of managing quality • explain how managing quality effectively can improve The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A classroom-ready presentation introducing students to the concept of Scarcity and its inter-related problems from the Cambridge International Examinations Economics Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Economics in the content area of Basic economic ideas and resource allocation. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A ready-made resource for classroom or online teaching introducing students to the concept of Subsidies and Indirect Taxes within the context of a Supply and Demand Analysis and its inter-related problems from the Cambridge International Examinations Economics Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Economics in the content area of Basic economic ideas and resource allocation. The presentation can be delivered as a classroom lecture or in an online lesson and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A newly updated online and/or classroom-ready presentation covering Marketing Planning from Unit 3 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 3 including: • analyse the content of a marketing plan • assess the usefulness of marketing planning • link the marketing plan to a coordinated marketing mix • evaluate the importance of new product development and research and development • assess the usefulness of sales forecasting and analyse sales data by the moving-average method. This presentation can be delivered as a lecture online or in a classroom and can be supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A robust classroom-ready presentation answering “What is Marketing?” from Unit 3 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 3 including: • the link between marketing objectives and corporate objectives • marketing objectives • factors influencing the supply and demand for the products/services of a business • interactions between price, supply and demand • how markets may differ: such as consumer/producer markets; national, regional and international markets • difference between product and customer (market) orientation • problems associated with measuring market share and market growth • implications of changes in market share and growth • classification of products • how marketing might differ for different types of goods and services • reasons for and benefits/limitations of mass marketing and niche marketing • benefits and limitations of market segmentation • methods of market segmentation including geographic, demographic and psychographic The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A comprehensive online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Costs, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 5 on Finance and Accounting. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 5 including: • understand the differences between full and contribution costing • apply the technique of contribution costing • evaluate situations in which contribution costing would and would not be used • apply contribution costing to ‘accept/reject’ order decisions • solve numerical problems involving costing methods. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Budgets, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 5 on Finance and Accounting. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 5 including: understand why financial planning is important • analyse the advantages of setting budgets – or financial plans • examine the importance of a system of delegated budgeting • analyse the potential limitations of budgeting • use variance analysis to assess adverse and favourable variances from budgets. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A classroom-ready set of presentations covering Motivation Theory and Practice from Unit 2 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentations highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 2 including: • the need to motivate employees to achieve the objectives of a business • a simple explanation of human need • how human needs may or may not be satisfied at work • ideas of the main content theorists (Maslow, Taylor, Mayo, Herzberg) and process theorists (McClelland, Vroom) • the theories in practical situations • different payment methods (time based, salary, piece rates, commission, bonuses, profit sharing, performance related pay) • different types of non-financial motivators (training, induction, opportunities for promotion, development, status, job re-design, team working, empowerment, participation, fringe benefits/perks) • ways in which employees can participate in the management and control of business activity The presentations can be delivered as lectures and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A robust classroom-ready presentation covering AS Marketing Research from Unit 3 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 3 including: • purpose of market research in determining customer characteristics/consumer profiles, wants and needs • distinction between primary (field) and secondary desk research, and the main features of each • methods of primary research and their advantages and disadvantages including focus groups and surveys • sources of secondary information including printed, paid for and web-based sources of information • random, stratified and quota sampling; the appropriateness of each to given situations • limitations of sampling • the reliability of data collection • analysis of results obtained from market research • interpretation of information • cost effectiveness of marketing research The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough classroom-ready presentation on Promotion and Place from the Marketing Mix, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 3 on Marketing. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 3 including: • above the line and below the line promotion • the role of packaging in promotion • branding as part of product/promotion • choosing between alternative types of channel of distribution • online advertising, catalogues, sales, dynamic pricing, distribution (download of digital products), social media, viral marketing, e-commerce • the need for the marketing mix to be consistent with the business, the product type and the market The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough classroom-ready presentation on Price from the Marketing Mix, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 3 on Marketing. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE AS Level Business Unit 3 including: • use and value of alternative pricing strategies including competitive, penetration, skimming, price discrimination, cost-based pricing • define, calculate and interpret price elasticity of demand and suitable prices • usefulness of price elasticity of demand when making pricing decisions The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A robust collection of two classroom-ready presentations covering External Influences and External Economics Influences on Business Activity from Unit 1 of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 1 including: • how a government might use the law to seek to control: employment, conditions of work (including health and safety), minimum wage, marketing behaviour, competition, location decisions, particular goods and services • how international agreements might have an impact on businesses • how the state might intervene to help businesses (small and large) • how the state might intervene to constrain businesses (small and large) • the impact of and issues associated with corporate social responsibility (CSR), e.g. accounting practices, paying incentives for the award of contracts, social auditing • why businesses need to consider the needs of the community including pressure groups • problems of introducing technological change • how businesses are constrained by and rely on other businesses • how a business might react to a given demographic change • how (physical) environmental issues might influence business behaviour The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. An excellent key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough classroom-ready presentation on Contents of Published Accounts, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 5 on Finance and Accounting. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 5 including: • make simple amendments to Statements of financial position and income statements from given data • understand the importance of accounting for the depreciation of fixed assets and apply the straight-line method to simple problems • analyse the impact on the Statement of financial position of a change in valuing non-current assets or inventories • explain the significance of goodwill, net realisable value of stocks and depreciation to the final accounts of a business. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A comprehensive online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Analysis of Published Accounts, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 5 on Finance and Accounting. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 5 including: calculate the return on capital employed ratio • calculate the gearing ratio, the financial efficiency ratios and investment ratios • analyse ratio results and evaluate ways in which these results could be improved • assess the practical use of ratio analysis. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A complete online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Investment Appraisal, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 5 on Finance and Accounting. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 5 including: • understand what investment means and why appraising investment projects is essential • recognise the information needed to allow for quantitative investment appraisal • assess the reasons why forecasting future cash flows contributes a considerable element of uncertainty to investment appraisal • understand and apply the payback method of investment appraisal and evaluate its usefulness • understand and apply the average rate of return method of investment appraisal and evaluate its usefulness • analyse the importance of qualitative or non-numerical factors in many investment decisions • understand and apply the net present method of investment appraisal and discounted payback and evaluate their usefulness • understand and apply the internal rate of return method of investment appraisal and evaluate its usefulness. The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.

A thorough online and/or classroom-ready presentation on Strategic Analysis, as part of the Cambridge International Examinations Business Syllabus Unit 6 on Strategic Management. Connects seamlessly with the core approved textbooks and addresses all learning objectives. This presentation highlights key concepts of the syllabus from the CIE A2 Level Business Unit 6 including: • understand the importance of strategic analysis • undertake and interpret a SWOT analysis • undertake and interpret a PEST analysis • evaluate the role of business vision and mission statements in strategic analysis • undertake and interpret Boston Matrix analysis of the product portfolio of a business. • assess the significance of Porter’s Five Forces analysis as a framework for business strategy • assess the significance of Core Competencies analysis as a framework for business strategy The presentation can be delivered as a lecture and supplemented with a teacher’s own creative exercises and activities. A time-saving key resource for new and experienced teachers alike.