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.
This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of Investment Appraisal (IA)
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson International Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
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This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of decision trees
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson International Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
Written by Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation
This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of critical path analysis (CPA)
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson International Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
Written by Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation
This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of ratio analysis
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson International Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
Written by Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation
Students should be able to:
demonstrate and understand how businesses might be affected by changes in the rate of interest
how fluctuating interest rates can affect businesses that rely on overdrafts and loans for finance
how fluctuating interest rates can affect consumer and business spending.
identify how and why businesses might be affected by changes in levels of employment
discuss how demand for products and services may change as incomes fluctuate
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Students should:
have an understanding of customer expectations of quality in terms of production of goods and the provision of services
have an understanding of how businesses identify quality problems and how businesses measure quality and the consequences of these issues
be aware of the methods of maintaining consistent quality and be able to identify the advantages to a business of using TQM
be aware of the possible quality issues as businesses grow, particularly if outsourcing and franchising is used
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Students should:
Be able to assess the impact of legislation on businesses
Be aware of the benefits for providing a safe working environment
Understand employment law including:
national minimum wage/living wage
the Equality Act (2010)
Health and safety law including: the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)
Understand consumer law including trade descriptions
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Students should be able to:
understand the difference between internal and external recruitment and the benefits and drawbacks of each approach
outline the main stages in the recruitment and selection process, including an understanding of job analysis, job description, person specification, and selection methods
analyse the benefits of having an effective recruitment and selection process for a business, including high productivity, high quality output or customer service and staff retention
understand the difference between part time and full time contracts, job share and zero hour contracts
understand the benefits of full and part time employment
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Students should be able to:
understand the benefits of a motivated workforce, such as staff retention and high productivity
understand the use of financial methods of motivation (including an understanding of the main methods of payment including salary, wage, commission and profit sharing)
understand the use of non-financial methods of motivation, including styles of management, importance of training and greater responsibility, fringe benefits
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Students should:
be familiar with the promotional methods which are likely to be used by a given business
appreciate the benefits and drawbacks of promotional methods used by businesses
be able to analyse factors influencing the selection of the promotion mix to assess their suitability for a given business
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This lesson covers:
The 4 Ps of marketing and their importance
Product
Design, invention, innovation
Product stages of the lifecycle
Introduction, growth, maturity, decline
Pricing methods
Skimming, cost-plus, penetration, competitor, promotional
Promotion – point of sale
Price reductions, loss leaders, competitions, free samples
Promotion - advertising
Social media, websites, print media, television, radio
Place – distribution of products and services
Digital and physical distribution channels
How the 4 Ps of the marketing mix work together
The use of the marketing mix to inform and implement business decisions
Interpretation of market data
Changes in demand
target market and market share
changes in product
effects of promotion
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This lesson covers:
The use of segmentation to target customers
Age
Gender
Income
Location
Lifestyle
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Pearson Edexcel A Level International Business (133) 3 Promotion and branding
This lesson covers:
a) Types of promotion.
b) Types of branding.
c) The benefits of strong branding:
• added value
• ability to charge premium prices
• reduced price elasticity of demand.
d) Ways to build a brand:
• unique selling points, USPs)/differentiation
• advertising
• sponsorship
• the use of social media.
e) Changes in branding and promotion to reflect social trends:
• viral marketing
• social media
• emotional branding.
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New Pearson Edexcel A Level International Business (134) 4 Motivation
This lesson covers:
a) The importance of employee motivation to a business
b) Motivation theories:
• Taylor (scientific management)
• Mayo (human relations theory)
• Maslow (hierarchy of needs)
• Herzberg (two-factor theory).
c) Financial methods to improve employee performance:
• piecework
• commission
• bonus
• profit share
• performance-related pay.
d) Non-financial methods to improve employee performance:
• delegation
• consultation
• empowerment
• team working
• flexible working
• job enrichment
• job rotation
• job enlargement.
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NEW Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (132) 4 PED Price Elasticity of Demand
Complete teaching resources for a whole lesson including a PowerPoint and worksheet
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a) Calculation of price elasticity of demand.
b) Interpretation of numerical values of price elasticity of demand.
c) The factors influencing price elasticity of demand.
d) The significance of price elasticity of demand to businesses in terms of implications for pricing.
e) Calculation and interpretation of the relationship between price elasticity of demand and total revenue.
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Methods to improve cash flow
Assess ways of improving cash flow
Methods to improve profits and profitability
Assess ways of improving profits and profitability
Difficulties improving cash flow and profit
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business 131 1 The Market
This lesson covers:
a) Mass markets and niche markets:
characteristics
market size and market share
brands
b) Dynamic markets:
online retailing
how markets change
innovation and market growth
adapting to change
c) How competition affects the market
d) The difference between risk and uncertainty
Complete teaching resources for a whole lesson includes PowerPoint and worksheet
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (131) 3 Market Positioning
Complete teaching resources for a whole lesson including a PowerPoint and worksheet
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
a) Product and market orientation.
b) Market mapping.
c) Market segmentation.
d) Competitive advantage of a product or service.
e) The purpose of product differentiation.
f) Adding value to products/services.
232 Financial Planning
1 SALES, REVENUE AND COSTS
This complete lesson includes:
a) Calculation of sales volume and sales revenue
b) Calculation of fixed, variable costs, total costs and average costs
c) Ways of improving sales volumes and sales revenues
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234 Resource Management
1 PRODUCTION, PRODUCTIVITY
AND EFFICIENCY
This complete lesson includes:
a) Methods of production:
• job
• batch
• flow
• cell
b) Productivity:
• output per unit of input per time period
• factors influencing productivity
• link between productivity and competitiveness
• ways to improve productivity
c) Efficiency:
• production at minimum average cost
• factors influencing efficiency
• ways to improve efficiency
d) The distinction between labour- and capital-intensive production
e) Competitive advantage from short product lead-in times
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation