EDEXCEL BTEC Business Level 3 Unit 5 International Business COMPLETE LEARNING AIM A POWERPOINT

This is a 45-slide PowerPoint which covers the entire LEARNING AIM A of Unit 5 - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.

There are 5 Learning Aims in total and they are covered in 5 separate PowerPoints, making it easier to put together a teaching programme for the whole Unit.

**Teachers will be required to do no other work. These PowerPoints include questions and activities as well as videos and they have been written by a BTEC Moderator and used with hundreds of students across the years.
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There is about 240 minutes worth of teaching in this PowerPoint.

This is a summary of the PowerPoint:

• Types of business activity: Exporting businesses, importing businesses, multinational enterprises, and associated businesses like logistics and marketing.
• Reasons for conducting business internationally: Growth, additional revenue streams, brand exploitation, access to new markets, diversification, increasing market share, market leadership, technological dominance, comparative advantage, economies of scale, fiscal benefits, and preferential tax rates.
• Choice of Markets
• Types of markets: Developed economies, emerging markets, and less developed economies.
• Factors influencing market choice: Type of product, costs, and size of the market.
• Exports and Imports
• Exports: Selling goods and services to other countries.
• Imports: Buying goods and services from other countries.
• Multinational Enterprises
• Characteristics: Dominant players, complex structures, grown through organic and inorganic growth, heavy investment in R&D, globally recognized brands.
• Reasons for existence: Economies of scale, growth, dominance, global brand recognition, avoiding protectionist measures, reducing transport costs, benefiting from cheaper labor, tax differences, producing close to materials or market, spreading risk.
• Associated Businesses
• Types: Logistics, marketing, human resources, finance.
• Financing International Business
• Methods: Prepayment by the importer, letters of credit, export credits, bank loans.
• Support for International Business
• Agencies: UK Export Finance, UK Trade and Investment, Chambers of Commerce, regional advisory organizations.
• Types of support: UK Export Finance Advisors, trade fairs, identifying international partners, grants for international promotions.

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