Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
234 Resource Management
4 QUALITY MANAGEMENT
This complete lesson includes:
a) Quality:
• control
• assurance
• circles
b) Total Quality Management (TQM)
c) Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
d) Competitive advantage from quality management
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (333) 2 Investment appraisal
a) Simple payback.
b) Average (accounting) rate of return.
c) Discounted cash flow (net present value only).
d) Calculations and interpretations of figures generated by these techniques.
e) Limitations of these techniques.
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (335) 2 Ratio analysis
a) Calculate:
• profitability (gross profit margin and profit for the year margin)
• liquidity (current and acid test ratios)
• gearing ratio
• return on capital employed (ROCE).
b) Interpret ratios to make business decisions.
c) The limitations of ratio analysis.
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AQA GCSE Business 3.1.2 Business Ownership
Complete teaching resources for a whole lesson including a PowerPoint and worksheet
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Students should be able to:
understand the different legal structures that businesses adopt
• Sole traders
• Partnerships
• Private limited companies (ltd)
• Public limited companies (plc)
• Not-for-profit organisations
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)
understand the concept of limited liability and which legal structures benefit from this
evaluate which legal structure would be most appropriate for a variety of business examples, including new start-up businesses and large established businesses.
a) Considerations for businesses:
o cultural differences
o different tastes
o language
o unintended meanings
o inappropriate/inaccurate translations
o inappropriate branding and promotion
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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Edexcel A Level Business unit 4.4.3
a) Factors to consider:
o political influence
o legal control
o pressure groups
o social media
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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a) Growth rate of the UK economy compared to emerging
economies
b) Growing economic power of countries within Asia, Africa
and other parts of the world
c) Implications of economic growth for individuals and
businesses:
o trade opportunities for businesses
o employment patterns
d) Indicators of growth:
o Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
o literacy
o health
o Human Development Index (HDI)
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Design mix:
function
aesthetics
cost
b) Changes in the elements of the design mix to reflect social trends:
concern over resource depletion: designing for waste minimisation, re-use and recycling
ethical sourcing
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (335) 1 Interpretation of financial statements
a) Statement of comprehensive income (profit and loss account):
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
b) Statement of financial position (balance sheet)
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
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Edexcel A Level Business 3.1.2 Theories of Corporate Strategy (complete lesson)
This lesson covers:
a) Development of corporate strategy:
o Ansoff’s Matrix
o Porter’s Strategic Matrix
b) Aim of portfolio analysis
c) Achieving competitive advantage through distinctive
capabilities
d) Effect of strategic and tactical decisions on human,
physical, and financial resources
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1.5.1
Role of an
entrepreneur
a) Creating and setting up a business
b) Running and expanding/developing a business
c) Innovation within a business (intrapreneurship)
d) Barriers to entrepreneurship
e) Anticipating risk and uncertainty in the business
environment
1.5.2
Entrepreneurial
motives and
characteristics
a) Characteristics and skills required
b) Reasons why people set up businesses:
o financial motives: profit maximisation and profit
satisficing
o non-financial motives: ethical stance, social
entrepreneurship, independence and home working
1.5.3
Business objectives
a) Survival
b) Profit maximisation
c) Other objectives:
o sales maximisation
o market share
o cost efficiency
o employee welfare
o customer satisfaction
o social objectives
1.5.4
Forms of business
a) Sole trader, partnership and private limited company
b) Franchising, social enterprise, lifestyle businesses, online
businesses
c) Growth to PLC and stock market flotation
1.5.5
Business choices
a) Opportunity cost
b) Choices and potential trade-offs
1.5.6
Moving from
entrepreneur to
leader
a) The difficulties in developing from an entrepreneur to a leader
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (333) 1 Quantitative sales forecasting
a) Calculation of time-series analysis: moving averages (three period/four quarter).
b) Interpretation of scatter graphs and line of best fit: extrapolation of past data to future.
c) Limitations of quantitative sales forecasting techniques.
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (432) 2 Assessment of a country as a market
a) Factors to consider:
• levels and growth of disposable income
• ease of doing business
• infrastructure
• political stability
• exchange rates.
b) Application of Porter’s five forces in assessing potential markets.
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Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in Business
1.8.1 Measuring success in business:
• revenue
• market share
• customer satisfaction
• profit
• growth
• owner/shareholder satisfaction
• employee satisfaction.
Complete lesson with a PPT and worksheet
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (132) 3 Markets
This lesson covers:
The interaction of supply and demand
The drawing and interpretation of supply and demand diagrams to show the causes and consequences of price changes
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2.3.1 Planning a business and raising finance
4 FORMS OF BUSINESS
This complete lesson includes:
a) Sole trader, partnership and private limited company (Ltd)
b) Franchising, social enterprise, lifestyle businesses, online businesses
c) Growth to public limited companies (plc) and stock market flotation
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a) Stakeholder conflicts
b) Pay and working conditions
c) Environmental considerations:
o emissions
o waste disposal
d) Supply chain considerations:
o exploitation of labour
o child labour
e) Marketing considerations:
o misleading product labelling
o inappropriate promotional activities
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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a) Spreading risk over different countries/regions
b) Entering new markets/trade blocs
c) Acquiring national/international brand names/patents
d) Securing resources/supplies
e) Maintaining/increasing global competitiveness
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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