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GCSE Business (Old Spec.)
Unit 1: Introduction to Small Business
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Topic 1.1 Spotting a business opportunity
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Businesses
Understanding Customer Needs
Market Mapping
Competition
Adding Value
Franchising
Revision
Topic 1.2 Showing enterprise
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What is Enterprise?
Thinking Creatively
Questions to be Asked
Invention and Innovation
Taking a Calculated Risk
Important Enterprise Skills
Revision
Topic 1.3 Putting a business idea into practice
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Objectives When Starting Up
Qualities Shown by Entrepreneurs
Estimating Revenues, Costs and Profits
Forecasting Cash Flows
The Business Plan
Obtaining Finance
Revision
Topic 1.4 Making the start-up effective
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Customer Focus & The Marketing Mix
The Importance of Limited Liability
Start Up Legal and Tax Issues
Customer Satisfaction
Recruiting, Training and Motivating Staff
Revision
Topic 1.5 Understanding the economic context
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Demand and Supply
The Impact of Interest Rates
The Impact of Exchange Rates
The Impact of The Business Cycle
Business Decisions and Stakeholders
Revision
Unit 2: Investigating Small Business
Unit 3: Building a Business
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Topic 3.1 Marketing
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Marketing
Product trial and repeat purchase
Product life cycle
Branding and differentiation
Building a successful marketing mix
Revision
Topic 3.2 Meeting Customer Needs
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Design and research development
Managing stock
Quality
Cost-effective operations and competitiveness
Effective customer service
Meeting consumer protection laws
Revision
Topic 3.3 Effective Financial Management
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How to improve cash flow
How to improve profit
Break-even charts and break-even analysis
Financing growth
Revision
Topic 3.4 Effective People Management
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Organisational structure
Motivation theory
Communication
Remuneration
Revision
Topic 3.5 The Wider World Affecting Business
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Ethics in business
Environmental issues
Economic issues affecting international trade
The impact of government and the EU
Revision
A Level Business
AS Business
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1. What is business?
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Understanding the nature and purpose of business
Understanding different business forms
Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment
3. Decision making to improve marketing performance
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Setting marketing objectives
Understanding markets and customers
Making marketing decisions: segmentation, targeting, positioning
Making marketing decisions: using the marketing mix
4. Decision making to improve operational performance
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Setting operational objectives
Analysing operational performance
Making operational decisions to improve performance: increasing efficiency and productivity
Making operational decisions to improve performance: improving quality
Making operational decisions to improve performance: managing inventory and supply chains
Revision
A2 Business
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8. Choosing Strategic Direction
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Strategic direction: Choosing which markets to compete in and what products to offer
Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete
9. Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
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Assessing a change in scale
Assessing Innovation
Assessing Internationalisation
Assessing Greater Use of Digital Technology
10. Managing Strategic Change
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Managing Change
Managing Organisational Culture
Managing Strategic Implementation
Problems with strategy and why strategies fail
BTEC Business
Unit 2: Learning Aim A
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Lesson 1: The role of marketing Introduction
Lesson 2: Setting Marketing Objectives
Lesson 3: The Marketing Mix
Lesson 4: Market Segmentation
Lesson 5: Branding
Lesson 6: Internal influences on marketing
Lesson 7: External Influences on Marketing
Lesson 8: Product and Price
Unit 6: Principles of Management
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B1 - Management and Leadership Styles
D1 - Theories of motivation
D1 - Financial and non-financial motivators
D2 - Techniques to meet skills requirements
D3 - Training and development
D4 - Performance Appraisal
E1 - Change Management
E1 - Model of Change Management
E1 - Barriers To Change
E1 - Stakeholders who influence change
F1 - Quality standards
F2 - Developing a quality culture
F3 - The techniques and tools of quality management
F4 - The importance and benefits of quality management
Unit 14: Customer Service
GCSE Business (9-1)
Theme 1: Investigating small business
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Topic 1.1 Enterprise and entrepreneurship
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1.1.1 The dynamic nature of business
1.1.2 Risk and reward
1.1.3 The role of business enterprise
Topic 1.2 Spotting a business opportunity
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1.2.1 Customer needs
1.2.2 Market research
1.2.3 Market segmentation
1.2.4 The competitive environment
Topic 1.3 Putting a business idea into practice
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1.3.1 Business aims and objectives
1.3.2 Business revenues, costs and profits
1.3.3 Cash and cash-flow
1.3.4 Sources of business finance
Unit 3 revision
Topic 1.5 Understanding external influences on business
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1.5.1 Business stakeholders
1.5.2 Technology and business
1.5.3 Legislation and business
1.5.4 The economy and business
1.5.5 External influences
Topic 1.4 Making the business effective
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1.4.1 The options for start-up and small businesses
1.4.2 Business location
1.4.3 The marketing mix
1.4.4 Business plans
Theme 2: Building a business
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Topic 2.1 Growing the business
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2.1.1 Business growth
2.1.2 Changes in business aims and objectives
2.1.3 Business and globalisation
2.1.4 Ethics, the environment and business
Topic 2.2 Making marketing decisions
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2.2.1 Product
2.2.2 Price
2.2.3 Promotion
2.2.4 Place
2.2.5 Using the marketing mix to make business decisions
Topic 2.3 Making operational decisions
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2.3.1 Business operations
2.3.2 Working with suppliers
2.3.3 Managing quality
2.3.4 The sales process
Topic 2.4 Making financial decisions
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2.4.1 Business calculations
2.4.2 Understanding business performance
Topic 2.5 Making human resource decisions
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2.5.1 Organisational structures
2.5.2 Effective recruitment
2.5.3 Effective training and development
2.5.4 Motivation
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