Another in the series of ‘What is All About?’ guides aimed at GCSE Business students with the intention of strengthening their understanding of core topic areas. This unit looks at the importance of market segmentation, target markets, mass and niche market structures, and product and market orientation.

The latest in the revision packs aimed at improving pupil knowledge of core areas of the A Level Business specification that often cause problems. This pack focuses upon critical path analysis and includes the usual format of an assessment sheet (knowledge, application, analysis and evaluation skills are tested), teacher answer sheet, a mind map for pupil revision and a specialist revision sheet about critical path analysis. This pack also incorporates a detailed PowerPoint that teachers can use to deliver the topic and is supported with a PDF version of the notes to act as a hand out.

The latest installment in the new AQA Business specification revision sheets. This sheet considers the importance of supply chain management with a focus upon inventory control charts, buffer stocks, re-order levels and re-order quantities. It also considers the value of supply chain management; the influences in choice of suppliers; mass customisation and the need to match supply with demand.

Another revision sheet for the new AQA Business specification. This sheet looks at the topic of quality and the means of improving quality and its importance for business. It looks at quality assurance and quality control; the PDCA Cycle; quality chains; quality circles and TQM.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification. The handout covers an outline of how to improve labour productivity and the general efficiency of an organisation. It considers the impact of improving efficiency and how it can be the source of competitive advantage. It also examines the important concept of lean production (including JIT), labour and capital intensity and the role of technology upon operations.

The latest in the series of marketing notes designed for GCSE Business students. They are primarily intended for learning support departments but maybe of use wider afield. This topic looks at the new topic area of e-commerce and digital communications.

Another revision pack in the new series aimed at supplementing a student's understanding of common mathematical concepts seen in most A Level Business courses. This focus of this pack is that of financial ratio analysis. It considers profitability, gearing, financial efficiency and liquidity and provides students with a detailed series of questions that build their core knowledge skills. Detailed answer sheets are included, along with a mind map revision activity sheet and a set of revision notes about financial ratio analysis.

A series of questions that assess a variety of assessment objective skills about the three main investment appraisal techniques of payback, ARR and net present value. This pack includes knowledge, application and analysis style tasks and also contains a mind map activity and answers to the questions. I have also thrown in a copy of my investment appraisal revision notes and my brand new PowerPoint lesson about Investment Appraisal alongside a PDF hand out of the notes. This represents excellent value.

Another in the popular range of student support worksheets. This one seeks to explain the concept of profit in ways that look to encourage students to build up their understanding in a gradual and meaningful way.

A student revision handout aimed at improving their knowledge of core economic concepts. This handout looks specifically at the following topic areas: the economic problem; economic models and assumptions; scientific method; normative and positive economics; ceteris paribus; renewable and non-renewable resources; economic agents; specialisation and division of labour; production possibility frontiers; opportunity costs; economics as a social science; factors of production and finally the function of money.

A PowerPoint based quiz based directly upon the hit ITV show including graphics and music. This resource is fully editable so you can adapt it to your own needs, adding your own questions therefore making it suitable for A Level. I have used this resource in my GCSE classes with great success and students like to see if they can beat the challenge of the 15 questions. I would recommend you use the cursor key to move between questions though as the mouse control is rather sensitive.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification. This guide looks specifically at the topics of capacity; capacity utilisation; spare capacity; unit costs; labour productivity and links between capacity and other operational targets.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification. The handout covers an outline of what is meant by operations management; the concepts of labour and capital intensive; the main operational objectives of costs, quality, dependability, speed of response and flexibility, environmental objectives and added value. It also looks at some of the key internal and external influences acting upon the objectives.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the three separate management and leadership chapters relating to the new specification. This covers setting understanding management, leadership and decision making; understanding management decision making and understanding the role and importance of stakeholders.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the three separate introductory chapters relating to the new specification. This covers understanding the nature and purpose of business; understanding different business forms and understanding that businesses operate within an external environment.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the four separate marketing chapters relating to the new specification. This covers setting marketing objectives; understanding markets and customers; segmentation, targeting and positioning (STP) and using the marketing mix.

A revision resource for students studying the new AQA Business specification. This mammoth chapter looks at each of the 7P’s; product life cycle; extension strategies; the boston matrix; digital marketing; e-commerce; the need for an integrated marketing mix; influences acting upon the marketing mix; consumer and business-to-business marketing; new product development; pricing decisions; the promotional mix; multi-channel distribution channels; people, process and the physical environment. Phew!

A revision resource designed to complement the new AQA Business Specification. This handout is focused upon the idea of market segmentation. It examines demographic, income, behavioural and geographic forms of segmentation. It also considers the benefits and drawbacks of market segmentation, the formal STP model, niche and mass marketing, and positioning.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification that considers the key issues of correlation analysis; price and income elasticity; the purpose of market research; primary and secondary research; sampling; confidence levels; market mapping and quantitative and qualitative data.